vmware : profile attributes not reflecting in VC UI

[satyadev svn]

1) create profile say 'default' having content tagged to nfs data store.
2) Now 'default' profile in /etc/cinder/cinder.conf for "pbm_default_policy=default"
3) now restart cinder api service.
4) Now create volume with out any volume type "cinder create --name testvol 1"
5) Now attach to instance.
6) As per default profile define respective volume is present to nfs data store.

how ever default profile details not appearing in " VM storage policies pane" . See attached snapshot for reference

ssatya@devstack:/etc/cinder$ cat cinder.conf | grep pbm
pbm_default_policy=default

ssatya@devstack:/etc/cinder$ cinder list | grep in-use
| 4db6af03-7c60-469d-803e-2ba21893fc0d | in-use | testvol2 | 1 | None | false | 26ffc3d5-af49-4c04-926f-9b94563bfd65 |
| 862219d5-941a-4f96-85a8-9b73a83d4507 | in-use | testvol3 | 1 | None | false | 26ffc3d5-af49-4c04-926f-9b94563bfd65 |
| d33d102f-f863-441d-bf87-29465cef3760 | in-use | ThickSliver_vol1 | 1 | ThickSliver_volume | false | 26ffc3d5-af49-4c04-926f-9b94563bfd65 |

[Huang Zhiteng (zhiteng-huang)]

It seems to me that the 'pbm_default_policy' configure option only means something to VMDK driver, which means you should restart cinder volume service instead of cinder api. Could you please verify if that works for you?

[satyadev svn (svnsatya)]

as you suggested I restarted c-api & c-vol services. Still in VC UI " VM storage policies pane" is empty.

[Vipin Balachandran (vbala)]

---
        type_id = volume['volume_type_id']
        if not type_id:
            return
---

The problem is, if no volume_type specified, the profile defaults to None instead of pbm_default_policy.
The fix for Bug 1291181 removes pbm_default_policy. After that fix, the profile is queried using the storage_profile extra_spec property in the volume_type. The user can set a profile in the default_volume_type instead of pbm_default_policy.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/81044

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/81044
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/cinder/commit/?id=1e4d070a5b638de58c87363b18a76171dcd0ce38
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 1e4d070a5b638de58c87363b18a76171dcd0ce38
Author: Vipin Balachandran <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Mar 17 23:46:22 2014 +0530

    vmware: Remove pbm_default_policy config option

    The pbm_default_policy config option is used to associate a storage
    policy with the volume backing if there is no associated volume_type
    or the volume_type doesn't have the storage_profile option. A better
    approach is to set the storage_profile option in the default_volume_type.
    This change removes the pbm_default_policy and queries the policy
    using the storage_profile option in the given volume_type.

    Closes-Bug: #1291181
    Closes-Bug: #1291804
    DocImpact

    Change-Id: I2519ec1145712ce6927dacde91db468d066af021