Bug 1019205

Summary: [RFE] add the transient disk support in vdsm
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce>
Component: vdsmAssignee: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Elad <ebenahar>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 3.3.0CC: abaron, acanan, bazulay, fsimonce, iheim, lpeer, scohen, yeylon
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: FutureFeature
Target Release: 3.3.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard: storage
Fixed In Version: is20 Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Transient disk support has been added to VDSM. A transient disk is a temporary qcow layer based on a volume that is attached to a virtual machine in read-write mode. All changes stored in the transient disk is lost when the disk is hot-unplugged or when the virtual machine shuts down. Its primary use is to access a disk snapshot (a read-only volume) in read-write mode.
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Last Closed: 2014-01-21 16:18:24 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Federico Simoncelli 2013-10-15 09:46:20 UTC
Description of problem:
VDSM should provide a way to attach a volume (internal/leaf) as a transient disk. A transient disk is a temporary qcow layer based on a (usually internal) volume that is attached to a VM in read-write mode. All changes stored in the transient disk will be lost as soon as the disk is hot-unplugged or when the VM exits. Its primary use is to access in read-write mode a snapshot (read-only volume).

Comment 2 Sean Cohen 2013-11-13 10:23:49 UTC
Part of 3.3 Backup API flow

Comment 3 Elad 2013-11-14 13:25:23 UTC
Transient volume is now supported by vdsm. As part of the backup API feature, when we attach a disk snapshot to a dedicated machine with a backup software installed and plug it to this machine, a new transient volume is created by vdsm. This new volume enables vdsm to make changes on the RO attached disk snapshot.


Checked during backup API feature testing. Tested on is21 and is23

Comment 4 Elad 2013-11-14 13:32:10 UTC
(In reply to Elad from comment #3)
> Transient volume is now supported by vdsm. As part of the backup API
> feature, when we attach a disk snapshot to a dedicated machine with a backup
> software installed and plug it to this machine, a new transient volume is
> created by vdsm. This new volume enables vdsm to make changes on the RO
> attached disk snapshot.
> 
> 
> Checked during backup API feature testing. Tested on is21 and is23

and is22

Comment 5 Charlie 2013-11-28 00:30:48 UTC
This bug is currently attached to errata RHBA-2013:15291. If this change is not to be documented in the text for this errata please either remove it from the errata, set the requires_doc_text flag to 
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Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-21 16:18:24 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0040.html