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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Pentium100,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What I can suggest to simplify VM deployment by developing a so called “golden image” and “golden template” in advanced. From there, you just make use of context
and cloning features to ease your deployment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just my 20cent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">.fahmie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> users-bounces@lists.opennebula.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.opennebula.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pentium100<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 04, 2013 7:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@lists.opennebula.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [one-users] Simplified VM creation?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">While trying out OpenNebula, I noticed that the VM creation process is quite inconvenient if I want different VMs (as opposed to scaleout situation).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Create the image (upload a new one or copy some other image), set it as persistent (I don't want the VM to disappear if I shut it down).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Create a template that uses the image.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">3. Finally create a VM from the template. There will only be one VM using that template (because I don't really need two identical VMs).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To create 10 virtual servers (all the same "hardware" but different images) I need to repeat steps 1-3 ten times.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">It would be nice, if there was a way to simplify this. I can think of 3 ways to do it:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Skip the creation of a template. Create an image then create a VM based on that image.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Do not define an image while creating a template. Assign the image when creating the VM.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">3. Have some "template" image that gets copied when a VM is created. The copy should be persistent.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a way to do it? Non-persistent images behave almost like option 3, but accidentally shutting down a VM would mean data loss.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have quite a few VMs, but they all are used as real servers would be - all have different data (no scaleout) and none can be deleted easily.
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