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Jerome Charaoui edited this page Dec 3, 2018 · 7 revisions

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Ideas list

This is a list of potentials ideas to improve Xen Orchestra. It helps to get creative :) Note: this list isn't sorted.

  • SSH web client from console view (via VM IP with tools) #232
  • Templating stacks (upload a text file to generate automatically all VMs) #248
  • Upload ISO to NFS ISO SR via XO #288
  • Call DHCP API to provision via MAC #351
  • External cloud provider instances display #398
  • REST API #700
  • XS HA via XOA #1540
  • Expose OVS features #1746

btrfs support for local backup remote

Xen Orchestra may leverage btrfs features of a local filesystem remote formatted with btrfs:

  • to transparently compress backup images
  • to segment the backup data using subvolumes (eg. subvolume per VM or per VDI)
  • to snapshot a VM's delta backup data for recovery
    • instead of losing all backup data in case of error (eg. merge timeout), XO may detect a failure and revert changes at the FS level, allowing a retry of the backup in delta mode instead of triggering a full backup
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