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2 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | =========================== |
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5 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | The 2.x versions of Ganeti will constitute a rewrite of the 'core' |
6 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | architecture, plus some additional features (however 2.0 is geared |
7 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | toward the core changes). |
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9 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | Core changes |
10 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | ------------ |
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12 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | The main changes will be switching from a per-process model to a |
13 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | daemon based model, where the individual gnt-* commands will be |
14 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | clients that talk to this daemon (see the design-2.0-master-daemon |
15 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | document). This will allow us to get rid of the global cluster lock |
16 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | for most operations, having instead a per-object lock (see |
17 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | design-2.0-granular-locking). Also, the daemon will be able to queue |
18 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | jobs, and this will allow the invidual clients to submit jobs without |
19 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | waiting for them to finish, and also see the result of old requests |
20 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | (see design-2.0-job-queue). |
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22 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | Beside these major changes, another 'core' change but that will not be |
23 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | as visible to the users will be changing the model of object attribute |
24 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | storage, and separate that into namespaces (such that an Xen PVM |
25 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | instance will not have the Xen HVM parameters). This will allow future |
26 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | flexibility in defining additional parameters. |
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29 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | Functionality changes |
30 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | --------------------- |
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32 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | The disk storage will receive some changes, and will also remove |
33 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | support for the drbd7 and md disk types. See the |
34 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | design-2.0-disk-changes document. |
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36 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | The configuration storage will be changed, with the effect that more |
37 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | data will be available on the nodes for access from outside ganeti |
38 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | (e.g. from shell scripts) and that nodes will get slightly more |
39 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | awareness of the cluster configuration. |
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41 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | The RAPI will enable modify operations (beside the read-only queries |
42 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | that are available today), so in effect almost all the operations |
43 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | available today via the ``gnt-*`` commands will be available via the |
44 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | remote API. |
45 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | |
46 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | A change in the hypervisor support area will be that we will support |
47 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | multiple hypervisors in parallel in the same cluster, so one could run |
48 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | Xen HVM side-by-side with Xen PVM on the same cluster. |
49 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | |
50 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | New features |
51 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | ------------ |
52 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | |
53 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | There will be a number of minor feature enhancements targeted to |
54 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | either 2.0 or subsequent 2.x releases: |
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56 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | - multiple disks, with custom properties (read-only/read-write, exportable, |
57 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | etc.) |
58 | 84f4dc28 | Iustin Pop | - multiple NICs |