[ovirt-users] Re: Storage Domains for a VM from Template

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 12:55 PM Shantur Rathore <shantur.rathore(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi all, > > I have multiple storage domains in my DC. One is backed up that has > templates and another one which isn't backed up and I want to use it for VM > instances of the template. > > I cannot find an option to create the VM from a template and use a > storage domain other than where the template is stored. > > Is it even possible? > Assuming you're asking about the administration portal, it depends on the selected allocation policy (which you can find in the Resource Allocation tab of the add-VM dialog): - If it is set to 'Clone' then you can select any other storage domain that is available in the DC to clone the template's disk to - If it is set to 'Thin' then a VM disk must reside on a storage domain that contains the template's disk it is based on. You can copy the template's disk(s) to another storage domain if you want a VM disk to be created there > > Thanks, > Shantur > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/SKR6URQN7IH... >