Post by tmakatos on Jan 23, 2023 21:45:33 GMT
We're looking at Swordfish to see whether it suits our needs, it's quite big and we've only started scratching the surface.
One of our main requirements is to be able to support break/fix workflows, which means:
In addition, we'd like to support abstract aggregation and partitioning of storage, e.g. aggregate storage in storage pools and partition into nested units, e.g. like PVs/VGs/LVs in LVM(8).
I believe our questions can be answered by reading the spec and watching the videos, which we're currently going through, but it would be nice if we could get an expert's view whether it's fit for purpose. Also, specific pointers to our questions would be much appreciated.
One of our main requirements is to be able to support break/fix workflows, which means:
- to report disk health information. We might not only want to report a binary status (healthy/non-healthy), but perhaps more information. Given that there are multiple tools depending on the vendor, how can we report such information. Worst case, is it possible to just pass the tool's stdout to some custom field?
- To represent the hardware topology, mainly storage and storage controllers. Our end goal is to present the physical view so that one can physically replace a faulty disk.
- To toggle LEDs for specific disks/controllers.
In addition, we'd like to support abstract aggregation and partitioning of storage, e.g. aggregate storage in storage pools and partition into nested units, e.g. like PVs/VGs/LVs in LVM(8).
I believe our questions can be answered by reading the spec and watching the videos, which we're currently going through, but it would be nice if we could get an expert's view whether it's fit for purpose. Also, specific pointers to our questions would be much appreciated.
