Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread La Motta, David
.lamo...@netapp.com>> To: "mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>>" mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:13:41 AM Subject: Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not... Hey Kelcey, you'd mentioned there was somebody, but never got any specifics

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread Kelcey Jamison Damage
" To: "" Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:13:41 AM Subject: Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not... Hey Kelcey, you'd mentioned there was somebody, but never got any specifics. You can share names outside of this thread if you'd like, and I'll reach out to them intern

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread La Motta, David
n CloudStack development as well - Original Message - From: "Chip Childers" mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:56:51 AM Subject: Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not... On Thu, Jun 13,

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread Kelcey Jamison Damage
Hey David, not sure if I mentioned this, but there are some guys at NetApp in Calgary that are interested in CloudStack development as well - Original Message - From: "Chip Childers" To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:56:51 AM Subject: Re: Clon

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread Chip Childers
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 04:17:10PM +, La Motta, David wrote: > Cool, we'll take a look at CreateCommand. I like your suggestion to tweak > the execute method to accomplish this. > > We are literally getting our feet wet at this point, and have some ideas that > we are looking to implement i

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread La Motta, David
Cool, we'll take a look at CreateCommand. I like your suggestion to tweak the execute method to accomplish this. We are literally getting our feet wet at this point, and have some ideas that we are looking to implement in a NetApp plugin to CS. Hopefully we'll get to meet some of you at the CC

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread Marcus Sorensen
CreateCommand in the agent code is responsible for making a template into a new volume. With Xen and VMware, you're limited to what the hypervisor is capable of as far as storage cloning to create a new copy from an existing template on your primary storage. With KVM, you can create your own storag

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread La Motta, David
Looking at this in more detail, that's not going to do it. If we have to create a template and call deployVirtualMachine, that will do--intentionally--what it was intended to do: spin up a new VM in the hypervisor and allocate a chunk of disk out of primary storage. What we are looking to do,

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-12 Thread La Motta, David
Nope! That's the one I was looking for. Too close to destroyVirtualMachine… didn't even see it ;-) Thanks again. David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer Citrix Solutions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.com On Jun 12, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Chip Childers m

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-12 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:49:42PM +, La Motta, David wrote: > Ok, thanks. So it is doable. The question now being how fast this process > will be, since the VM creation will ultimately be done on the hypervisor. > > What is the API that I could use to create a VM from a template? I am >

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-12 Thread La Motta, David
Ok, thanks. So it is doable. The question now being how fast this process will be, since the VM creation will ultimately be done on the hypervisor. What is the API that I could use to create a VM from a template? I am looking at the 4.1 REST API and there is nothing for creating under the Vir

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-12 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:35:18PM +, 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 > fun

Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-12 Thread La Motta, David
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? If there isn't, can I drop to the hypervisor a