Suresh Kumar Anaparti created CLOUDSTACK-10430:
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Summary: CloudStack GSoC 2021 - Clone a Virtual Machine (with all
the data disks)
Key: CLOUDSTACK-10430
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-10430
Project: CloudStack
Issue Type: Improvement
Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
Components: API
Reporter: Suresh Kumar Anaparti
Hi there,
Here is the background of the proposed improvement in the CloudStack.
Currently, there is no straight way to clone / create a copy of the VM (with
all the data disks) in CloudStack. Operator/Admin requires a series of
steps/API cmds to be followed to achieve that in CloudStack, and also it takes
considerable time (to wait and check each cmd response before proceeding to
next step). Some hypervisors (Eg. VMware) already supports clone VM operation,
and CloudStack can leverage that.
The support for this new functionality, can be integrated by introducing a new
(admin-only) API to clone the VM, something like _cloneVirtualMachine_ , which
facilitates direct way to clone / create a copy of the VM (with all the data
disks) can be . CloudStack internally performs all the required operations to
create the copy of the VM (leverages the relevant hypervisor(s) operations if
necessary), and returns the VM as response when success, otherwise throws the
relevant error message.
This improvement will be a good addition to the VM operations supported in the
CloudStack. It requires some virtualization/cloud domain knowledge & usage.
More details here: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/4818
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