Something VCL has been lacking is automated management of storage, both on the system side and on the user side. This is a list of areas that should be addressed when designing storage management and automation:
- System storage:
- block attached image store for management nodes
- network attached image store for management nodes
- block attached image store for hypervisors
- network attached image store for hypervisors
- block attached images for node booting (i.e. iSCSI booting)
- file/block/LUN cloning
- LUN/share management of existing stores
- LUN/share management of temporary stores (things created/destroyed dynamically)
- logging/auditing
- where does security fit in?
- User storage:
- block attached
- networked filesystems
- allocation
- authentication/authorization
- quota management
- lifetime of storage (just for reservation vs. lifetime of user)
- backups
- request process
- logging/auditing
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