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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ján Tomko
f8a53a0795 docs: storage: document the 'lvm2' disk format oddness
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-06-17 16:14:24 +02:00
Ján Tomko
2681e13075 docs: storage: type out two
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-06-17 16:13:41 +02:00
Ján Tomko
6481ed8de6 docs: storage: fix spacing when enumerating volume formats
There was a space missing after 'qcow'.
Delete 'qcow' and 'cow' as examples to make the document
more relevant for the current decade.

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-06-17 16:13:41 +02:00
John Ferlan
05fade52fe docs: Fix a few storage.html.in typos
Fix the ZFS Valid Volume Format Types label and add the
Valid pool format types for Vstorage pools.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 11:12:48 -05:00
John Ferlan
6bf28f3860 docs: Add more iscsi-direct references to storage pages
Found that it was missing in formatstorage and had a few typos
in the storage driver page.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-01-24 18:07:33 -05:00
Eric Blake
4c37f4c4dd storage: Fix mention of disk pool default
The default disk storage pool type in XML is 'dos', not 'msdos'.
But tweak wording to keep the term 'msdos' in the text for the
sake of grep searches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2018-08-30 09:15:42 -05:00
Pavel Hrdina
ad3d94f0da docs: fix iscsi-direct XML example
The <initiator> element is part of <source> element.

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2018-08-08 17:33:12 +02:00
Clementine Hayat
f0bf1be3e7 storage: Introduce iscsi_direct pool type
Introducing the pool as a noop. Integration inside the build
system. Implementation will be in the following commits.

Signed-off-by: Clementine Hayat <clem@lse.epita.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2018-08-06 12:23:55 +02:00
Ville Skyttä
1f2f055bc3 docs: Grammar and spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
2018-05-03 12:40:37 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
b1c81567c7 docs: switch to using HTML5 doctype declaration
The HTML5 doctype is simply

  <!DOCTYPE html>

no DTD is present because HTML5 is no longer defined as an
extension of SGML.

XSL has no way to natively output a doctype without a public
or system identifier, so we have to use an <xsl:text> hack
instead.

See also

  https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/#doctype-declaration

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2017-08-02 17:00:11 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
4e42ff6b7e docs: switch to using 'id' attribute instead of 'name' for links
The 'name' attribute on <a...> elements is deprecated in favour
of the 'id' attribute which is allowed on any element. HTML5
drops 'name' support entirely.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2017-08-02 17:00:11 +01:00
Erik Skultety
9c25d7a4ca docs: Utilize our XSLT list generating template more
Since we do have this template at hand, why not using it wherever
possible (list of supported pool types and remote access section).
Also, perform some stylistic micro adjustments.

Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
2017-04-24 12:37:37 +02:00
Philipp Hahn
d7dcea6f60 doc: fix writing of QEMU
QEMU should be written all upper or all lower case.
2017-03-08 17:33:07 +01:00
Olga Krishtal
a55ddc8774 storage: vstorage pool documentation and simple test
Signed-off-by: Olga Krishtal <okrishtal@virtuozzo.com>
2017-01-26 10:43:42 -05:00
Michal Privoznik
5805492002 storage.html.in: Kill useless spaces in <pre/>
The <pre/> section is rendered as-is on the page. That is, if all
the lines are prefixed with 4 spaces the rendered page will also
have them. Problem is if we put a box around such <pre/> because
the content might not fix into it.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2016-11-14 11:03:34 +01:00
Roman Bogorodskiy
33fb8ff185 docs: mention ZFS on Linux support 2016-02-27 05:39:50 +03:00
Ján Tomko
d616544077 Spell VMware with a lowercase w
Replace all occurrences of VMWare outside the news.
2016-02-15 15:35:48 +01:00
Wido den Hollander
6343018fac rbd: Do not append Ceph monitor port number 6789 if not provided
If no port number was provided for a storage pool libvirt defaults to
port 6789; however, librbd/librados already default to 6789 when no port
number is provided.

In the future Ceph will switch to a new port for the Ceph monitors since
port 6789 is already assigned to a different application by IANA.

Port 6789 is assigned to SMC-HTTPS and Ceph now has port 3300 assigned as
the 'Ceph monitor' port.

In this case it is the best solution to not hardcode any port number into
libvirt and let librados handle the connection.

Only if a user specifies a different port number we pass it down to librados,
otherwise we leave it blank.

Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>

merge
2016-01-06 08:13:50 -05:00
John Ferlan
a77056bdb5 mpath: Don't allow more than one mpath pool at a time
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232606

Since an mpath pool contains all the Multipath devices on a host, allowing
more than one defined on a host at a time should be disallowed under the
policy of disallowing duplicate source pools for the host.

Adjust to docs to clarify the Multipath target path value usage for both
the storage driver (only 1 pool per host) and formatstorage references
(ignore the target element in favor of the default target mapping of
/dev/mapper).
2015-06-30 11:21:42 -04:00
John Ferlan
29230951f1 storage: Generate correct parameters for CIFS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186969

When generating the path to the dir for a CIFS/Samba driver, the code
would generate a source path for the mount using "%s:%s" while the
mount.cifs expects to see "//%s/%s". So check for the cifsfs and
format the source path appropriately.

Additionally, since there is no means to authenticate, the mount
needs a "-o guest" on the command line in order to anonymously mount
the Samba directory.
2015-06-15 17:25:47 -04:00
John Ferlan
4b2b53f674 conf: Remove source host name check for iSCSI
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171984
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188463

Remove the check for the source host name for iSCSI source XML processing
declaring duplicate sources when the source device path and if present the
initiator of a proposed storage pool matches an existing storage pool.

The backend iSCSI storage driver uses 'iscsiadm --mode session' to query
available iscsid target sessions. The output displayed is the IP address
and the IQN (target path) of known targets. The displayed IP address
is a resolved address based on the session --login. Additionally, iscsid
keeps track of the various ways to define the host name (IPv4 Address,
IPv6 Address, /etc/hosts, etc.) for that IQN (see output of an 'iscsiadm
--mode node'). If an incoming IQN matches and the host name provided by
libvirt is resolved to the existing IQN, then iscsid will "reuse" the
session. Although libvirt could do the same name resolution, if there
is a difference, iscsid could still declare two seemingly different sources
to be the same and not create a new session which means libvirt now has
two storage pools looking at the same source. Thus to avoid any strange
host name resolution issues, just rely on iscsid for that and do not
allow multiple pools on the same host to use the same device path (IQN).
2015-05-12 16:16:48 -04:00
John Ferlan
832a9256b2 disk: Provide a default storage source format type.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181062

According to the formatstorage.html description for <source> element
and "format" attribute: "All drivers are required to have a default
value for this, so it is optional."

As it turns out the disk backend did not choose a default value, so I
added a default of "msdos" if the source type is "unknown" as well as
updating the storage.html backend disk volume driver documentation to
indicate the default format is dos.
2015-03-02 22:42:25 -05:00
Cole Robinson
9d31a0e4f6 docs: storage: fix rbd pool indentation 2014-12-04 10:34:05 -05:00
Erik Skultety
1be67cd31b storage: Fix logical pool fmt type
According to our documentation logical pool supports formats 'auto' and
'lvm2'. However, in storage_conf.c we previously defined storage pool
formats: unknown, lvm2. Due to backward compatibility reasons
we must continue refer to pool format type 'unknown' instead of 'auto'.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123767
2014-09-29 05:59:09 -04:00
Roman Bogorodskiy
05d1dd6b33 docs: update zfs documentation
- docs/formatstorage.html.in: document 'zfs' pool type, add it
   to a list of pool types that could use source physical devices
 - docs/storage.html.in: update a ZFS pool example XML with
   source physical devices, mention that starting from 1.2.9 a
   pool could be created from this devices by libvirt and in earlier
   versions user still has to create a pool manually
 - docs/drvbhyve.html.in: add an example with ZFS pools
2014-09-18 18:08:29 +04:00
Roman Bogorodskiy
0257d06ba4 storage: ZFS support
Implement ZFS storage backend driver. Currently supported
only on FreeBSD because of ZFS limitations on Linux.

Features supported:

 - pool-start, pool-stop
 - pool-info
 - vol-list
 - vol-create / vol-delete

Pool definition looks like that:

 <pool type='zfs'>
  <name>myzfspool</name>
  <source>
    <name>actualpoolname</name>
  </source>
 </pool>

The 'actualpoolname' value is a name of the pool on the system,
such as shown by 'zpool list' command. Target makes no sense
here because volumes path is always /dev/zvol/$poolname/$volname.

User has to create a pool on his own, this driver doesn't
support pool creation currently.

A volume could be used with Qemu by adding an entry like this:

    <disk type='volume' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source pool='myzfspool' volume='vol5'/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
    </disk>
2014-08-12 19:40:20 +04:00
Peter Krempa
0f6c50b9b6 gluster: Fix "key" attribute for gluster volumes
According to our documentation the "key" value has the following
meaning: "Providing an identifier for the volume which identifies a
single volume." The currently used keys for gluster volumes consist of
the gluster volume name and file path. This can't be considered unique
as a different storage server can serve a volume with the same name.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out a way to retrieve the gluster
volume UUID which would avoid the possibility of having two distinct
keys identifying a single volume.

Use the full URI as the key for the volume to avoid the more critical
ambiguity problem and document the possible change to UUID.
2014-04-01 08:44:34 +02:00
Nehal J Wani
968a46923a Fix typos in various docs
Fix 8 minor spelling errors in docs/*.html.in
2013-12-02 10:21:26 +08:00
Eric Blake
ed5fa7f393 storage: document gluster pool
Add support for a new <pool type='gluster'>, similar to
RBD and Sheepdog.  Terminology wise, a gluster volume
forms a libvirt storage pool, within the gluster volume,
individual files are treated as libvirt storage volumes.

* docs/schemas/storagepool.rng (poolgluster): New pool type.
* docs/formatstorage.html.in: Document gluster.
* docs/storage.html.in: Likewise, and contrast it with netfs.
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-gluster.xml: New test.
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-gluster.xml: Likewise.
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c (mymain): Likewise.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2013-11-25 11:03:19 -07:00
Eric Blake
887dd3625b storage: fix RNG validation of gluster via netfs
While trying to compare netfs against my new gluster pool, I
discovered two things:

virt-xml-validate chokes on valid xml produced by 'virsh pool-dumpxml'
[yet another reason that ALL patches that add new xml should be adding
corresponding tests]

When using glusterfs FUSE mounts, you cannot access a subdirectory
of a gluster volume.  The recommended workaround in the gluster
community is to mount the volume to an intermediate location, then
bind-mount the desired subdirectory to the final location.  Maybe
we should teach libvirt to do bind-mounting, but for now I chose to
just document the limitation.

* docs/storage.html.in: Improve documentation.
* docs/schemas/storagepool.rng (sourcefmtnetfs): Allow all
formats, and drop redundant info-vendor.
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c (mymain): New test.
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-netfs-gluster.xml: New file.
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-netfs-gluster.xml: Likewise.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2013-11-13 12:10:00 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
f2f9742d4d Fix multiple formatting problems in HTML docs
The rule generating the HTML docs passing the --html flag
to xsltproc. This makes it use the legacy HTML parser, which
either ignores or tries to fix all sorts of broken XML tags.
There's no reason why we should be writing broken XML in
the first place, so removing --html and adding the XHTML
doctype to all files forces us to create good XML.

This adds the XHTML doc type and fixes many, many XML tag
problems it exposes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2013-05-03 15:56:15 +01:00
Philipp Hahn
7503c81edd doc: storage: Fix grammar
Remove 'are' before 'have'.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
2013-03-20 21:47:49 +08:00
Philipp Hahn
c47884a122 doc: document new storage volume/pool types
Add qed for dirfs pool.
Add ocfs2 for disk pool.
Add lvm2 for disk and logical pool.
Add cifs and glusterfs for netfs pool.

Note: POOL_DISK_LVM2 can not be created by "parted mklabel", but is only
returned from auto-detection on disk pools.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
2013-02-26 20:19:19 -07:00
Sebastian Wiedenroth
29bc4fe646 Add a sheepdog backend for the storage driver
This patch brings support to manage sheepdog pools and volumes to libvirt.
It uses the "collie" command-line utility that comes with sheepdog for that.

A sheepdog pool in libvirt maps to a sheepdog cluster.
It needs a host and port to connect to, which in most cases
is just going to be the default of localhost on port 7000.

A sheepdog volume in libvirt maps to a sheepdog vdi.
To create one specify the pool, a name and the capacity.
Volumes can also be resized later.

In the volume XML the vdi name has to be put into the <target><path>.
To use the volume as a disk source for virtual machines specify
the vdi name as "name" attribute of the <source>.
The host and port information from the pool are specified inside the host tag.

  <disk type='network'>
    ...
    <source protocol="sheepdog" name="vdi_name">
      <host name="localhost" port="7000"/>
    </source>
  </disk>

To work right this patch parses the output of collie,
so it relies on the raw output option. There recently was a bug which caused
size information to be reported wrong. This is fixed upstream already and
will be in the next release.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Wiedenroth <wiedi@frubar.net>
2012-07-18 20:08:27 +01:00
Wido den Hollander
74951eadef storage backend: Add RBD (RADOS Block Device) support
This patch adds support for a new storage backend with RBD support.

RBD is the RADOS Block Device and is part of the Ceph distributed storage
system.

It comes in two flavours: Qemu-RBD and Kernel RBD, this storage backend only
supports Qemu-RBD, thus limiting the use of this storage driver to Qemu only.

To function this backend relies on librbd and librados being present on the
local system.

The backend also supports Cephx authentication for safe authentication with
the Ceph cluster.

For storing credentials it uses the built-in secret mechanism of libvirt.

Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
2012-05-21 12:37:38 -06:00
Dave Allan
e68f22ae65 Add detail to documentation on storage pools and volumes.
The storage pools page contains details about the capabilities of the
various pool types, but not an overview of how they are intended to be
used.  This patch adds some explanation of what pools and volumes can
be used for and why an administrator might want to use them.
2012-02-02 15:51:25 -07:00
Justin Clift
5bc4307597 docs: fix the xml validity errors regarding name and id
Got sick of seeing the "validity error : ID Objects already defined"
errors, which this patch addresses.
2010-09-17 00:41:08 +10:00
Cole Robinson
1edc59e71b docs: Fix syntax warnings from recent changes. 2010-02-23 10:25:17 -05:00
Cole Robinson
582f04f064 docs: storage: Document multipath pools 2010-02-23 09:44:39 -05:00
Cole Robinson
c5bad3ad21 docs: storage: Document SCSI pools 2010-02-23 09:44:38 -05:00
Matthias Bolte
afec7cf1ff Whitespace cleanup for pre-tags on the website 2009-11-16 22:42:13 +01:00
Cole Robinson
76944e8137 Fix documentation cut and paste errors, and a virsh typo. 2008-12-04 14:51:57 +00:00
Daniel Veillard
415b92101f * docs/storage.html[.in] src/storage_backend_disk.c: revert previous
msdos patch and apply new one from Cole Robinson
daniel
2008-08-13 09:45:10 +00:00
Daniel Veillard
ef7fec1168 rename the disk type from 'dos' to 'msdos'
* docs/storage.html[.in] src/storage_backend_disk.c: patch from
  Cole Robinson to rename the disk type from 'dos' to 'msdos'
Daniel
2008-08-12 11:26:00 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
9092c3d491 Split website out into one file per page. APply new layout and styling 2008-04-23 17:08:31 +00:00