[one-users] Opennebula as a virtual infrastructure Management tool

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

Hi,

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Oualid Nouri <o.nouri at computer-lan.de>wrote:

> Question: Is it possible to deploy(install)and manage these Servers in a
> central repository and having this repository accessed by hypervisors
> without copying the whole virtual machine image when starting or stopping a
> virtual server with opennebula?
>


The Image Repository [1] takes care of the image files. If the storage is
shared (e.g. NFS), and the Images are marked as persistent [2], then the
file in the repository is used rather than cloned.



 Regards,

Carlos.


[1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:img_guide

[2]
http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:img_guide#making_images_persistent

--
Carlos Martín, MSc
Project Major Contributor
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | cmartin at opennebula.org


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Oualid Nouri <o.nouri at computer-lan.de>wrote:

> Hello to all,
>
> I have looked in the documentation anb on the web but didn’t find a clear
> answer to my questions or at least I didn't understood the whole concept of
> opennebula.
>
> My Plan and Question
>
> I am looking for an administrator friendly open source management tool for
> virtual infrastructures.
>
> With the SUNSTONE web frontend there is a user friendly administrative tool
> to opennebula.
>
>
>
> I want to be able to manage a fixed but expandable set of virtual Servers,
> not just workloads in a cloud.
>
> Let’s say one File Server and one Mail Server (windows or linux) for the
> beginning.
>
> After some time a third, fourth or more might be deployed.
>
> I know that this is possible.
>
> I'm not interested  to just quickly deploy virgin virtual machine images
> and then destroy them after usage.
>
> Because the virtual machines will host user data I want to keep them.
>
>
>
> Question: Is it possible to deploy(install)and manage these Servers in a
> central repository and having this repository accessed by hypervisors
> without copying the whole virtual machine image when starting or stopping a
> virtual server with opennebula?
>
>
>
> If there is already one answer or hints please let me know.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> O. Nouri
>
>
>
>
>
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