[one-users] storage creation

[Michaël Van de Borne]

Hi,

yes this helps.

Is there any chance to create an empty OS type image, so that I can boot 
on it (with kickstart)?

thanks,

michaël


Michaël Van de Borne
R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC
Phone: +32 (0)71 49 07 45 Mobile: +32 (0)472 69 57 16, Skype: mikemowgli
www.cetic.be, rue des Frères Wright, 29/3, B-6041 Charleroi


Le 16/06/11 12:03, Daniel Molina a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 10 June 2011 10:46, Michaël Van de Borne<michael.vandeborne at cetic.be>  wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> It seems that is a storage element has to be used on the cloud, it has to be
>> created prior, and then uploaded to the cloud.
>> As I'd like to use empty storage elements (and fill them later on), I'd like
>> to know how I could create (via CLI or OCCI) a storage volume in the cloud,
>> without having to uploading it.
>>
> You can define a DATABLOCK image that will create an empty disk, you
> should make it persistent in order to keep your changes.
>
> Using the CLI:
> $ oneimage create datablock.template
> $ cat datablock.template
> NAME              = "Experiment results"
> TYPE               = DATABLOCK
> # No PATH set, this image will start as a new empty disk
> SIZE               = 2048
> FSTYPE         = ext3
> PUBLIC           = NO
> PERSISTENT  = YES
> DESCRIPTION = "Storage for my Thesis experiments."
>
> Using OCCI:
> $ occi-storage create datablock.xml
> $ cat datablock.xml
>      <STORAGE>
>          <NAME>Experiment results</NAME>
>          <DESCRIPTION>Storage for my Thesis experiments.</DESCRIPTION>
>          <TYPE>DATABLOCK</TYPE>
>          <SIZE>2048</SIZE>
>          <FSTYPE>ext3</FSTYPE>
>          <PUBLIC>NO</PUBLIC>
>          <PERSISTENT>YES</PERSITENT>
>      </STORAGE>
>
> Hope this helps.
>> thank you,
>>
>> michaël
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michaël Van de Borne
>> R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC
>> Phone: +32 (0)71 49 07 45 Mobile: +32 (0)472 69 57 16, Skype: mikemowgli
>> www.cetic.be, rue des Frères Wright, 29/3, B-6041 Charleroi
>>
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