Hi,<br><br>On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Oualid Nouri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:o.nouri@computer-lan.de">o.nouri@computer-lan.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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?</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Carlos.<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[1] <a href="http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:img_guide">http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:img_guide</a><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[2] <a href="http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:img_guide#making_images_persistent">http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:img_guide#making_images_persistent</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Oualid Nouri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:o.nouri@computer-lan.de">o.nouri@computer-lan.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="DE"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello to all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My Plan and Question</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am looking for an administrator friendly open source management tool for virtual infrastructures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With the SUNSTONE web frontend there is a user friendly administrative tool to opennebula.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I want to be able to manage a fixed but expandable set of virtual Servers, not just workloads in a cloud.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Let’s say one File Server and one Mail Server (windows or linux) for the beginning.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">After some time a third, fourth or more might be deployed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I know that this is possible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I'm not interested to just quickly deploy virgin virtual machine images and then destroy them after usage. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Because the virtual machines will host user data I want to keep them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If there is already one answer or hints please let me know.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">O. Nouri</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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