Not quite correct. It's used as a hypervisor for the first cluster you setup during "Add zone". It defines the hypervisor type for the host and network labels that you also setup during the add zone process.
We don't use this setting as default anywhere else after the zone is created. -Alena. On 5/2/12 6:40 AM, "Salvatore Orlando" <salvatore.orla...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: >I believe it is used as a default setting for all clusters in the zone. >But then you are still free to override that setting for specific >clusters. > >Salvatore > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kevin Kluge [mailto:kevin.kl...@citrix.com] >> Sent: 02 May 2012 14:06 >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Add zone -- why hypervisor >> >> When you add a zone in 3.0.x there is a field for Hypervisor. Why is >>that?