[Engine-devel] the future of template cloning

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Thu Jan 12 13:44:56 UTC 2012


On 01/12/2012 02:19 PM, Jon Choate wrote:
> We are going to be able to store the disks for a template on different storage domains due to the multiple storage domain feature.  Cloning a template will still be possible, but will it provide any value?  Thoughts?

you would want to clone the disks to the storage domains you would want 
to create thinly provisioned disks from for this template.

so a template could have disk1 and disk2 on SD1, then disk2 cloned to 
SD2 to allow creating a VM with thin COW for disk2 on SD2 as well.

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