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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello to all,<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>My Plan and Question<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am looking for an administrator friendly open source management tool for virtual infrastructures.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With the SUNSTONE web frontend there is a user friendly administrative tool to opennebula.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>After some time a third, fourth or more might be deployed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I know that this is possible.<o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Because the virtual machines will host user data I want to keep them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>If there is already one answer or hints please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>O. Nouri<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>