[Engine-devel] the future of template cloning

[Jon Choate]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "Jon Choate" <jchoate at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:44:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] the future of template cloning
> 
> 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?


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