Storage servers

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Jan 17, 2023
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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

Storage type

Vendor

Protocol

Storage type

Vendor

Protocol

Hypervisor Datastore

Any

Any datastore storage protocol
(e.g. iSCSI, NFS, FC, FCoE, or direct attached)

Hypervisor datastores

Hypervisor

Datastore

Notes

Allows non-persistent
user hard disks

Hypervisor

Datastore

Notes

Allows non-persistent
user hard disks

ESXi

  • VMFS

  • NFS with RDM

Hyper-V

  • local disk

  • SMB mounted disk

  • CSV

  • Do not use C:\

KVM

  • local disk

  • Do not use /

Abiquo detects datastore disk changes

Abiquo periodically checks hypervisors for changes in virtual machines, including CPU, RAM and datastore disks.  You can set an abiquo.property to control the frequency of these checks (abiquo.vsm.vmsyncfrequency.<PLUGIN> see Abiquo configuration properties#vsm). If a virtual machine datastore disk is resized, Abiquo updates the size registered in Abiquo. If Abiquo detects a change in the datastore used for the virtual machine primary disk, 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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