title: Storage Management
Something VCL has been lacking is automated management of storage, both on the system side and on the user side. This is a list of areas that should be addressed when designing storage management and automation:
- System storage: ** block attached image store for management nodes ** network attached image store for management nodes ** block attached image store for hypervisors ** network attached image store for hypervisors ** block attached images for node booting (i.e. iSCSI booting) ** file/block/LUN cloning ** LUN/share management of existing stores ** LUN/share management of temporary stores (things created/destroyed dynamically) ** logging/auditing ** where does security fit in?
- User storage: ** block attached ** networked filesystems ** allocation ** authentication/authorization ** quota management ** lifetime of storage (just for reservation vs. lifetime of user) ** backups ** request process ** logging/auditing