The part that might be cool to augment for part 1, though, would be to not delete the old root disk. Then maybe allow it to be turned into a data disk. That way you could attach it to a VM and maybe investigate what got corrupted (if anything) to make you want to restore your VM (of course nothing might have been corrupted and you were just treating this recycle option as sort of a snapshot).
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *(tm)*
