(1) add support to create/delete/revert vm snapshots on running vms with QCOW2 format
(2) add new API to create volume snapshot from vm snapshot
(3) delete metadata of vm snapshots before stopping/migrating and recover vm snapshots after starting/migrating
(4) enable deleting of VM snapshot on stopped vm or vm snapshot is not listed in qcow2 image.
(5) enable smoke tests for vmsnaphsots on KVM
This PR adds an ability to Pass a new parameter, locationType,
to the “createSnapshot” API command. Depending on the locationType,
we decide where the snapshot should go in case of managed storage.
There are two possible values for the locationType param
1) `Standard`: The standard operation for managed storage is to
keep the snapshot on the device. For non-managed storage, this will
be to upload it to secondary storage. This option will be the
default.
2) `Archive`: Applicable only to managed storage. This will
keep the snapshot on the secondary storage. For non-managed
storage, this will result in an error.
The reason for implementing this feature is to avoid a single
point of failure for primary storage. Right now in case of managed
storage, if the primary storage goes down, there is no easy way
to recover data as all snapshots are also stored on the primary.
This features allows us to mitigate that risk.
These changes are a joint effort between Edison and I to refactor some
of the code around snapshotting VM volumes and creating
templates/volumes from VM volume snapshots. In general, we were working
towards allowing PrimaryDataStoreDrivers to create snapshots on primary
storage and not requiring the snapshots to be transferred to secondary
storage.
High level changes:
-Added uuid to NfsTO, SwiftTO & S3TO to cut down on the requirement of
PrimaryDataStoreTO and ImageStoreTO which don't really serve much of a
purpose
-Initial work towards enable reverting VM volume from snapshots
-Added hypervisor commands for introducing and forgetting new hypervisor
objects (snapshots, templates & volumes)
Signed-off-by: Edison Su <sudison@gmail.com>
