Storage Management

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