On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:35:18PM +0000, La Motta, David wrote: > Hey everybody, I've got a couple of questions on cloning VM instances in > CloudStack. I haven't seen anything in the UI that would allow me to create, > say, 1000 clones of a VM instance in a given cluster. Is there such > functionality in CloudStack?
It's a 2 step process: 1) Create a template from the source VM 2) Create VM's (using the API) from that template > > If there isn't, can I drop to the hypervisor and create the clones there, > then register all those new VMs in CloudStack? I haven't found a command in > the REST API that would allow me to register a hypervisor VM with CloudStack. > > Would I have to create a template from the VM in the hypervisor, upload the > template to CS, then create an instance out of that template? Rinse and > repeat 1000 times? > CS doesn't really handle changes done within the HV directly. Use the steps listed above. > I am thinking in terms of a service provider who may have the need to pump > out large quantities of VMs from within CloudStack. > > Thoughts? > > > David La Motta > Technical Marketing Engineer > Citrix Solutions > > NetApp > 919.476.5042 > dlamo...@netapp.com<mailto:dlamo...@netapp.com> > > >
