Hi,
Thanks for many comments.
Sheepdog git trees are created.
Sheepdog server
git://sheepdog.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/sheepdog/sheepdog
Sheepdog client
git://sheepdog.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/sheepdog/qemu-kvm
Please try!
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, MORITA Kazutaka
<morita.kazutaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for KVM/QEMU. It provides
> highly available block level storage volumes to VMs like Amazon EBS.
> Sheepdog supports advanced volume management features such as snapshot,
> cloning, and thin provisioning. Sheepdog runs on several tens or hundreds
> of nodes, and the architecture is fully symmetric; there is no central
> node such as a meta-data server.
>
> The following list describes the features of Sheepdog.
>
> * Linear scalability in performance and capacity
> * No single point of failure
> * Redundant architecture (data is written to multiple nodes)
> - Tolerance against network failure
> * Zero configuration (newly added machines will join the cluster
> automatically)
> - Autonomous load balancing
> * Snapshot
> - Online snapshot from qemu-monitor
> * Clone from a snapshot volume
> * Thin provisioning
> - Amazon EBS API support (to use from a Eucalyptus instance)
>
> (* = current features, - = on our todo list)
>
> More details and download links are here:
>
> http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/
>
> Note that the code is still in an early stage.
> There are some critical TODO items:
>
> - VM image deletion support
> - Support architectures other than X86_64
> - Data recoverys
> - Free space management
> - Guarantee reliability and availability under heavy load
> - Performance improvement
> - Reclaim unused blocks
> - More documentation
>
> We hope finding people interested in working together.
> Enjoy!
>
>
> Here are examples:
>
> - create images
>
> $ kvm-img create -f sheepdog "Alice's Disk" 256G
> $ kvm-img create -f sheepdog "Bob's Disk" 256G
>
> - list images
>
> $ shepherd info -t vdi
> 40000 : Alice's Disk 256 GB (allocated: 0 MB, shared: 0 MB), 2009-10-15
> 16:17:18, tag: 0, current
> 80000 : Bob's Disk 256 GB (allocated: 0 MB, shared: 0 MB), 2009-10-15
> 16:29:20, tag: 0, current
>
> - start up a virtual machine
>
> $ kvm --drive format=sheepdog,file="Alice's Disk"
>
> - create a snapshot
>
> $ kvm-img snapshot -c name sheepdog:"Alice's Disk"
>
> - clone from a snapshot
>
> $ kvm-img create -b sheepdog:"Alice's Disk":0 -f sheepdog "Charlie's Disk"
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> MORITA, Kazutaka
>
> NTT Cyber Space Labs
> OSS Computing Project
> Kernel Group
> E-mail: morita.kazutaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
--
MORITA, Kazutaka
NTT Cyber Space Labs
OSS Computing Project
Kernel Group
E-mail: morita.kazutaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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