Storage servers

Abiquo supports hard disks on the hypervisor datastore. Hard disks are not persistent. When the user undeploys a VM with disks on the hypervisor datastore, these disks will be destroyed.

Compatibility table

Hypervisor datastores

Abiquo detects datastore disk changes

Abiquo periodically checks hypervisors for changes in VMs, including CPU, RAM and disks.  You can set an abiquo.property to control the frequency of these checks (abiquo.vsm.vmsyncfrequency.<PLUGIN>, see Abiquo configuration properties and search for .vsm.).

If you resize a VM disk, Abiquo updates the size in its database. If Abiquo detects that the datastore of the VM primary disk has changed, it updates the value in Abiquo and publishes the following tracer: 

Datastore of virtual machine '{VIRTUAL_MACHINE_NAME}' has been changed from '{OLD_VALUE}' to '{NEW_VALUE}'

Abiquo support for storage moves and motion is described in the tables for each hypervisor.

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