QEMU Assisted Snapshots

Registered by Eric Harney

QEMU-assisted snapshotting

Enable snapshotting of volumes on backends such as GlusterFS by storing data as QCOW2 files on these volumes. With Nova support, this can also enable quiescing via the QEMU guest agent.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Russell Bryant
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Eric Harney
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Eric Harney
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for havana
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2013.2
Started by
Eric Harney
Completed by
Russell Bryant

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Sprints

Whiteboard

There is a blueprint for the Cinder part of this at:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/qemu-assisted-snapshots

I think this needs some more detail. It would be good to lay out a more detailed description and proposed design on a linked wiki page. --russellb
- Added wiki page -- Eric

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/qemu-assisted-snapshots,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/38321
    Allow Cinder to specify file format for NFS/GlusterFS

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/42767
    Add volume snapshot APIs to driver interface

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/42768
    Add db.block_device_mapping_get_by_id

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/42769
    Assisted snapshots compute API plumbing

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/42770
    Add an admin API

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/42771
    Add volume snapshot delete API test case

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/42772
    Add os-assisted-volume-snapshots extension

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/42812
    Guest-assisted-snaps libvirt implementation

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/44457
    Add block_device_mapping_get_all_by_instance to virtapi

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/44602
    VMware: guest assisted snapshots

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