Hi Alena, I guess the part 1) can already be taken care of by restoreVirtualMachine api - don¹t you think ?
Thanks, -Nitin On 24/03/14 11:37 AM, "Alena Prokharchyk" <alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: >I would like to propose a new feature for CS 4.5 - "ROOT volume detach" - >that enables support for following use cases: > >1) Replace current ROOT volume with the new one for existing vm. >2) Case when ROOT volume of vm1 gets corrupted, and you want to attach it >to vm2 to run the recovery utils on it. With current CS implemntation, >you have to perform several steps - create snapshot of vm1's volume, >create volume from snapshot, attach volume to the vm2. New implementation >will merge it all to one step. > > >With the planned implementation, once the ROOT volume is detached, it can >be attached to any existing vm (with respect to Admin/Domain/Physical >resources limitations), either as a DataDisk or a Root disk. > >Amazon EC2 already has this functionality in place, so I think CS would >only benefit from having it. Storage experts (Edison, others) please >raise your concerns if you have any, or if you see any potential problems >with the planned implementation. And if anyone can think of other use >cases this feature can possible solve, I would appreciate this input as >well. > > >Feature limitations: > >* ROOT volume can be detached only when vm is in Stopped state >* CS will fail to start the vm not having a ROOT volume > >I will send out the link to the FS once I start getting feedback on the >proposal. > >-Alena.
