VMware Ephemeral Disk Support¶
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/improve-vmware-disk-usage
The blueprint adds support for support ephemeral disks to the VMware driver.
Problem description¶
The VMware driver does not support ephemeral disks.
Proposed change¶
The change will add ephemeral disk support to the VMware driver. The commit acec2579b796d101f732916bfab557a66cebe512 added in a method create_virtual_disk. This method will be used to create the ephemeral disk for the instance.
The method will create an ephemeral disk for the instance on the datastore. This will be done according to the size defined in the instance flavor.
Alternatives¶
Do not implement the feature.
Data model impact¶
None.
REST API impact¶
None.
Security impact¶
None.
Notifications impact¶
None.
Other end user impact¶
Users will be able to use ephemeral disks for the vCenter driver.
Performance Impact¶
A modest increase in network traffic will slow down spawn operations as we create the ephemeral disk, size it, and place it for mounting in the vSphere virtual machine.
Other deployer impact¶
None.
Developer impact¶
None.
Implementation¶
Assignee(s)¶
This work was completed during IceHouse-1 and merely needs to be ported to the Juno release.
- Primary assignee:
tjones heut2008 garyk
Work Items¶
refactor and port https://review.openstack.org/#/c/51793/ for Juno
Dependencies¶
blueprint vmware-spawn-refactor
Testing¶
Minesweeper tests involving ephemeral disks will be turned on or written
Documentation Impact¶
After this blueprint the vmware driver will support ephemeral disks. This will need some additional documentation and changes to supported feature lists.
References¶
None