<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi all,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are working on a new simplified sunstone view [1], that has been requested by several users. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://twitter.com/dmamolina/status/355634576577679360" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/dmamolina/status/355634576577679360</a><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In this view a user will be able to instantiate a new Virtual Machine in three steps:<br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 1. Select a name and a number of vms</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 2. Select an instance type. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
3. Select the OS image for this instance(s)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">An instance type is an OpenNebula template instead of an erb file. Therefore, administrators can prepare as many templates (instance types) as they want and make them available to different users/groups. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>In OpenNebula 4.0, the merge action [1] was included for templates. This action allows us to define a base template and instantiate new virtual machines providing extra information to this template. <br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">These templates must define all the required information such as network, capacity, placement.. and leave the OS disk undefined, so the user can specify the desired image</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Feedback</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
=======</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We would like to ask you (the community) if you are missing anything in this view or if you would like to include anything else in this kind of scenario.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thank you for your feedback</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br>
</div><div>[1] <a href="http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.0:vm_guide#merge_use_case" target="_blank">http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.0:vm_guide#merge_use_case<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br></a><div dir="ltr">
<a href="http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.0:vm_guide#merge_use_case" target="_blank"></a><div><a href="http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.0:vm_guide#merge_use_case" target="_blank">Join us at </a><a href="http://opennebulaconf.com/" target="_blank">OpenNebulaConf2013</a> in Berlin, 24-26 September, 2013<br>
</div><div>--</div>Daniel Molina<br>Project Engineer<br>OpenNebula - The Open Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization<br><a href="http://www.OpenNebula.org" target="_blank">www.OpenNebula.org</a> | <a href="mailto:dmolina@opennebula.org" target="_blank">dmolina@opennebula.org</a> | @OpenNebula</div>
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