[Engine-devel] Instance Types Feature

[Tomas Jelinek]

Hi Laszlo,

it is not useful just for public clouds - it can be pretty useful for private as well. But to keep the previous way, it could be done this way:
- on the advanced screen (after clicking "show advanced options" you can specify the template)
- by default you pick on basic view the instance type (e.g. HW profile) and the Image (e.g. disk with some metadata such as OS type). But, you can select custom instance type (equivalent to  blank template) and no Image. In this case the template appears also on basic view and you can select it.

What do you think?

Tomas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:16:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel]  Instance Types Feature

Hi Tomas,

I like the idea in general, but for me the instance types looks like a feature that is typical in public clouds, while in private clouds it looks more like a cool extra feature for special cases. Therefore in my opinion it would be great to keep the old template solution as well to keep it simple for most users. A template could be an instance type and an image together. Only the description overlap, and that could be solved.

Thanks,
Laszlo

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:09:51 PM
> Subject: [Engine-devel]  Instance Types Feature
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> this is the proposed new feature called instance types:
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Instance_Types
> 
> Long story short - it should basically split the VM template into:
> - "hardware profile" called instance types
> - "software profile" called image
> 
> This should enable to do something like: Create a new "small" VM and
> attach a disk with "RHEL + Postgres" installed.
> 
> Any comments are more than welcome!
> 
> Tomas
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