Comment 9 for bug 811226

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: [Bug 811226] Re: Configurable persistent backing storage

Excerpts from Kapil Thangavelu's message of Thu Sep 01 23:24:22 UTC 2011:
> Excerpts from Dustin Kirkland's message of Thu Sep 01 22:06:02 UTC 2011:
> > Howdy, Ensemblers! Could anyone speak to the viability of fixing this
> > bug, or providing a suitable workaround for 11.10?
> >
>
> We won't have volume management addressed with 11.10. Currently all instances
> launched by ensemble against ec2 are using ebs backed volumes, so there is some
> notion of data persistence, just completely unexposed via ensemble.
>
> I'd ideally like to see a volume per unit, against environment/provider level
> volume management services [1, 2]. Ideally we could drive physical installations
> towards openstack/orchestra and utilize the volume capabilities available there.
>

Its more than that though. There's the notion of available space
too. Having a single instance of Cassandra that can only put 10G of data
in it is pretty worthless. I need to start it with a 100G EBS. Ensemble
offers me no ability to coordinate this before install of the formula.