On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Hari Kannan <hari.kan...@citrix.com> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> >> >> I wish to propose a better VM sync in CloudStack - I have added some details >> here<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Configurable+setting+to+use+linked+clones+or+not+on+VMware> >> along with a JIRA ticket 670 >> >> Please review and comment >> >> Hari Kannan > > +1 to the concept. > > Same question as other emails: what release are you thinking for this? > Is someone taking this work on? > > I pulled out your question on the design page, and have some thoughts: > >> Should this be at a template level or account level or VM level?? > > Isn't this something that's more infrastructure centric? i.e.: linked > clone functionality is provided by the hypervisor, and really is an > operator decision (not a user decision). Should the configuration > reflect that, instead of leaking the infra implementation details to > the end user? >
I don't know that this is truly infra-specific - why not make it part of the service offering; like local storage. Admin has to configure it, but user gets the option of choosing it. --David
