Retention policy mgmt

[wimpers]

Plugin which allows to manage the retention period of automatic snapshots of vDisks.

• Set a default retention for a vPool
• Option to overwrite the default retention per vDisk

[wimpers]

Detailed specs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HiSimt4HfiW977YBOmTBbYsXGoSgracKEXqnjKYLZVM/

[JeffreyDevloo]

Current estimation:

Plugin route

• Extra work for creating a new plugin (1 day)
• Implementing snapshotting hooks (4 weeks)
• API + front-end work (4 weeks)
  • Hooking into the front-end wizards
  • Hooking the api into the plugin
• Testing (2 weeks)

Non-plugin route

• Implementing snapshotting hooks (4 weeks)
• API + front-end work (2 weeks)
• Testing (2 weeks)

[JeffreyDevloo]

@wimpers Any input on what way to implement? Plugin or Non-plugin

[wimpers]

Non-plugin

[JeffreyDevloo]

Will be fixed by https://github.com/openvstorage/framework/pull/2285