[Users] oVirt 3.5 planning

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/20/2014 07:30 PM, Federico Alberto Sayd wrote:
> On 19/03/14 18:24, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 03/19/2014 08:41 PM, Federico Alberto Sayd wrote:
>>> On 24/02/14 13:59, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>> with oVirt 3.4 getting close to GA with many many great features, time
>>>> to collect requests for 3.5...
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>>> Allow select the storage domain when add a new VM from template.
>>> Currently the vm is created in the same datastore that the template.
>>
>> you can clone the template disks to multiple storage domains in the
>> DC, then create the VM in any storage domain, for thinly provisioned.
>> for clone operation, iirc, you can do this even without having the
>> template in the target storage domain?
>>
>>
>>
>
> 1 - I could not find a "clone template" option, only the option "copy"
> when you select a template's disk in Templates->Disks. Is this "copy"
> the "clone" that you mention?
>

yes.

>
> 2 - Then can't I use a storage domain only for templates (i.e. use a
> slow performance storage only for templates)?

only if you use clone, rather than thin provision. we don't want a 
single disk chain spanning more then a single storage domain today.

>
>
> 3 - Another question, when you convert a VM to template I see that it is
> created with preallocated disk even if the original VM had thinly
> provisioned disk. Is there no way to make the template with the same
> type of disk (thinly provisioned)??

on NFS - it doesn't matter.
on block storage - i don't remember why. maybe federico remembers.

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