[one-users] VMWare Server 2.0 and non-persistent images to minimize copy when deploying

[Manish Sapariya]

Hi,
We have are using OpenNebula 1.4 using following kind of setup.
The non-persistent disk that I used in OpenNebula 1.4 is not
working in 2.0.

The reason it worked with 1.4 is that it copied the directory as
it is without looking into the directory. My .vmx file was modified
to had a link to non-persistent disk and hence the solution was working.

2.0 specifically copies the vmdk file and then creates a deployment
file. And hence my 1.4 solution is not working with 2.0.

My question is, can I tell opennebula to use specific image on
hypervisor, instead of making a copy of vmdk and using that as the
instance disk.

Thanks and Regards,
Manish


On 9/27/2010 5:02 PM, Manish Sapariya wrote:
> Hi All,
> I thought somebody will find this useful and hence
> sharing it here.
>
> We are using opennebula based setup to test our
> collaboration product. We have home grown test framework
> which can run clients on different machines to execute
> test scenarios. Things were fine until we had only few
> users in our test. However as I added more users in test,
> the VMs deploying started taking too long because of the
> image copying. My frontend is on FC8, with big SATA disk.
> The datastore is expored using CIFS. The VMWare Hypervisors
> mount the datastore using CIFS to run the VMs.
>
> To minimize the copy of the whole disk on deploy, we
> followed solution detailed in 1, which is briefly mentioned
> as below.
>
> - Create your base image, call it basevm.
> - Modify the disk settings to non-persistent.
> - Now create another VM, clone1 , using the disk of
>   basevm.
>   - Set the new disk as non-persistent.
> - Create the vm template pointing to clone1. Note that
>   both the basevm and clone1 images should be in your
>   exported datastore path.
> - Deploy as many VMs as you like, with just few MBs of
>   data to copied.
>
> Hope this helps somebody.
> 1.http://communities.vmware.com/thread/15339
>
>
> -- 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Manish
>
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