Re: [Engine-devel] the future of template cloning

On 01/12/2012 03:50 PM, Jon Choate wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:44:56PM, Itamar Heim wrote: >> 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. >> > > But with the ability to create a template with disk 1 on SD1 and > disk2 on SD2 is that still a compelling feature? yes, since I may want to create virtual machines from this template where the 2nd disk is sometimes on SD1 and sometime on SD2 (just like today, where i can instantiate a VM from the template on multiple storage domains) The new feature will just allow me to not clone all the disks of the template to all storage domains, rather a subset.