Disabling Storage Pool for Provisioning

Bug Reference

Branch

master, 4.6

Introduction

CloudStack administrator may want to disable a storage pool from being used for provisioning of volumes. Virtual machines with volumes on a disabled storage pool  will continue to run. However, no new volumes will get placed on the disabled storage pool. This may be needed for variety of reasons; for example to guarantee certain iops for volumes on a storage.

Purpose

This document describes the specification and design of the feature

References

NA

Document History

Glossary

•  Storage Pool - primary storage on which volumes; whether root or data are placed.

Feature Specification

Unsupported scenarios

Open Items

Test Guidelines

Supportability

Impact on upgrades

Interoperability and compatability

Logging

User communities

Architecture and Design description

Alternate design considered

Storage pool state machine updates

Impact on virtual machine operations

Components affected

Database changes

Web Services APIs

UI Flow

IP Clearance

Usage Impact