VMware storage backend to support storage policies for Glance

The VMware storage backend should be able to place the images based on storage policies. Currently, it is only possible to select one datastore to place the images. The deployer can provide a storage policy defined in vCenter server instead of specifying directly a datastore. Among the subset of datastores matching...

Storage: Cloning for VMware Datastore backed disks for OpenStack Compute (nova)

Glance provides support for the VMware datastore as a backend storage [1]. The Nova VMware driver should take advantage of it by copying the bits of a given image instead of downloading them over the network when spawning a virtual machine. For snapshots, it will possible to register the location of the bits for a g...