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From: Marty Godsey
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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filesystem on the mount
point. With NVMe-oF/LVM/Migration method, only one machine will mount the LV,
but they all can see it. I would be using Pacemaker to handle the mounting.
Do you think this is risky? What do you think about using OCFS2?
Thank you for all the help.
Marty
helps.
2.
You are correct, Levin, about the failover process.
I am seeing if delegations are enabled on the TrueNAS side and disabling it if
it is.
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no test pings, sometimes maybe 1, and the mounts on the can be written to
at that 8-10 mark.
Marty
From: Eric Green
Date: Friday, November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Subject: Re: QCOW2 on NFS shared storage
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, the entire
VM locks up and must be hard reset to recover.
Is this true? Do people not use QCOW2 on HA NFS storage? Are there time outs I
can set, etc..
Thank you for all the input.
Marty
Hello All,
Do you now or have you ever used local storage for system VMs? I can see the
benefit on a few levels, but I can also see why it’s not needed. I could see
how live migrations would be a pain.
Has or does anyone put their system VMS on local storage versus shared?
Marty
performing with memory snapshots, did the pause happen.
Marty
From: Nicolas Vazquez
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Subject: Re: KVM, Snapshots, and QCOW2
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correct IPs, the
management label is set correctly, etc.
It seems to be falling on this step:
createMigrationURI
I am running 4.20.1.0 on the server and a 4.21.0.0 agent? Could this be the
issue?
I do need to update to 4.20.1.0.
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Thank you, Jithin.
Marty
From: Jithin Raju
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Subject: Re: KVM, Snapshots, and QCOW2
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Hello,
On my KVM cluster, which is new and not in production yet since I am still
tuning, I noticed that snapshots were taking a long time to complete. And when
say a long time, I mean 45seconds to 1 min. The VM is, of course, paused when
this happens. As you can imagine, this is unusable. The
This worked. Thank you for the help.
Marty
From: Prashanth Reddy
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Subject: Re: KVM Drivers for Windows VMs
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Hi Marty,
Everything you listed looks good.
You can add qemu-guest-agent if you plan to take storage-based instance
snapshots
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/l
. I appreciate the guidance.
Marty
. You can see the mgmt0
interface. Is this the correct way for this? This is my first KVM cluster. Do I
need to just provide the bridge name (cloudbr0) and specify a VLAN tag?
Thank you for any direction you can provide.
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# CloudStack KVM Host - cloudbr0 Management Bridge on VLAN 62
I may have asked this before, but on a single storage system using iSCSI, and
having multiple KVM nodes, what is the most used file system people have seen?
Thank you for the help.
uchas whether you need replication or not and what level of HA do you
want. I myself am curious about which option do most experts here choose.
Regards.
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> Hello,
>
> I understand that many different clustered file systems can be used
Hello,
I understand that many different clustered file systems can be used for primary
storage in a CloudStack environment with KVM and iSCSI. But what is the most
used here in the community? This is a single HA storage unit.
We got:
Shared LVM with lvmlockd
GFS2
CEPH.
Thank you for the help.
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Hi Marty,
If you only want to use OVS to replace Linux bridge, you need to configure
kvm agent, refer to
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/plugins/ovs-plugin.html#agent-configuration
If you want to use GRE isolation instead of vlan/vxlan, then it is
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Hi Marty,
What's your use case for OVS?
Cheers
Alex
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Hello,
In the past, I have used XCP for my hypervisors, but I am now adding in some
KVM hypervisors. In my Zone, though, OVS is disabled, and I want to use OVS on
the KVM hosts, but I can not find where to enable it. Am I missing a setting
somewhere?
Quick clarification question.
It’s my understanding that instance snapshots are kept on the hypervisor,
whereas volume snapshots are copied to secondary storage. Am I correct, or is
the instance snapshots also stored on secondary storage?
I know on KVM there are storage-based instance snapshots
Hello everyone. I have MFA set as required, and when a new user logs in, they
are prompted to scan the QR code. After scanning, they enter the number, and
the screen returns to the login screen. When they log in again, it takes them
through the same process as if they never scanned the code. The
Hello,
I have never seen this error and was wondering what it is generated from?
Error: Found 9034 volume usage records which are created after volume is removed
Error: Found 479 snapshot usage records which are created after it is removed
Its a Usage Sanity Check.
I am trying to think about wh
Hello,
I see alot of Shared ISOs mounted to the VMs cloud stack creates in XCP-NG.
This has always been this way. Is this normal?
https://imgur.com/a/Bblymg8
Hello,
I am trying to build a new zone on a fresh install of 4.21 and the zone can not
start the system VMs. It is complaining that it can not use the system
templates provided. I followed the install instructions and downloaded the
proper template to the secondary storage NFS server. The Cloud
hanks
Prashanth
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Sent: Friday, September 5, 2025 5:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: XCP-NG 8.3
Is it still necessary to change the xe-switch-network-backend to bridge on
XCP-NG 8.3 for CS 4.21?
I am using advanced zones, but I a
Is it still necessary to change the xe-switch-network-backend to bridge on
XCP-NG 8.3 for CS 4.21?
I am using advanced zones, but I am not using security groups.
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Hello Marty,
In addition to what Wei mentioned, the in-built extensions are intended
for demonstration and
I guess my question is if I wanted to use Proxmox only, what system template is
used? As an example.
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Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Subject: Proxmox Usage
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Hello,
I see that 4.21 has been released. I looked at the documentation, but I do not
see a setup guide for Proxmox like I do for the other hypervisors. When setting
up Proxmox, do you treat it like KVM?
Thank you for the help.
Hello All,
Is it 4.21 or 4.22 that's providing this integration?
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Hello Everyone,
I was wondering if there was a way to have Cloudstack do an automatic rebalance
of VMs?
As an example, when we perform maintenance on a node, we will migrate all the
VMs from that node to another node, as well all know. Then, after maintenance
is done, we would want to rebalanc
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Hi Marty
How to did you create pfSense VNF Template ?
https://atpscan.global.hornetsecurity.com?d=0BlmhA4RII3XmIvGZGUfkRv0oqyJTl1vKHDBbM_7JqY&a
Hello,
I created a VNF template with pfSense, and it works fine, however I noticed
that it is taking two IPs from the pool. Once for source NAT and the other for
static NAT. Since the static NAT is forwarded to the pfsense appliance anyway,
and this will be the incoming and outgoing IP for this
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Hi Marty,
Could you check in the table `cloud_usage.cloud_usage` whether there are
usage records for the specified period?
```
select * from cloud_usage.cloud_usage where start_date between
"2025-07-09
When ever I try to get usage data from the console, it doesn’t show any
information.
https://imgur.com/a/NRJ2ar1
The Usage server is running and logging.
Where should I start to look? I don’t see any errors in the log files.
Marty
Hello Alex,
No, I know that. In the video Wei posted about the VNF, I see this in his
screen.
https://imgur.com/a/oZkyHt3
I want to know where to put this information.
Marty
From: Alex Mattioli
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: VNF
I see that when creating your own VNF, you can tell the user the default
credentials. Where is this entered in the system?
Thank you for the help.
Hello,
The usage data on the GUI does not show me any details. It shows the server as
green and connected, and the last heartbeat is always “a few seconds ago” and
the last successful job ranges from a few minutes to a couple hours. But when I
hit “Show Usage Records” after selecting a date and
Hello everyone,
When creating a new VPC for routed mode, can I just choose the gateway? I just
want this to perform routing, and that is it.
Marty
@MSLOG@ file, however.
Is there a different way this is handled in 4.20? Is it in the documentation? I
still need to send these logs to an external source.
Regards,
Marty Godsey
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Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2
Nevermind, I see it’s a symlink to the cloud file.
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Thank you, Rohit.
Do I also need to replace the log4j2.xml file as well along with the
log4j2-cloud.xml file?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
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From: Rohit Yadav
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Upgrade from 4.19 to 4.20 stopped logging
?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
Rudio, LLC
Only one person replied about Linstor. Are not many people using it for
Cloudstack that are on the mailing lists?
Regards,
Marty
From: Nischal P
Date: Monday, May 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Move from XCP to KVM, NFS to Ceph or Linstor
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gards,
Marty
Thank you, Kiran.
I will update this week.
On a slightly different note, what is the best way to create a new instance
from an uploaded volume? Not a OVA/XVA, etc. Just an exported disk image.
Regards,
Marty
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Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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What version of CloudStack are you currently using?
Regards.
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this manner.
Regards,
Marty
From: Pearl d'Silva
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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there a way
to create a compute instance from an uploaded volume?
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Marty
experience with it when using
Cloudstack and XCP-NG or even KVM?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
it changed, and I missed it?
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Marty Godsey
This “fixed itself”. Not sure what happened. I just reapplied the rules.
Regards,
Marty Godsey
From: Wei ZHOU
Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Issue with Port Forwards in VR.
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4.18.x to 4.19.x. This is the first time something is being added to it.
The version of the software on the router is 4.19.0.2
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are not.
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Marty Godsey
Is there a timeout setting for downloading VHDs? These can be rather large, as
you would suspect, and it seems around the 5-minute mark, it times out. Is this
a setting in CS itself or somewhere else?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
I hope so. This is an excellent release.
Regards,
Marty Godsey
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Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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manage the HA, however, since
Cloudstack doesn't manage this for Xen.
Also, there is no integration between them.
Regards,
Marty Godsey
From: Francisco Arencibia Quesada
Date: Monday, October 7, 2024 at 9:57 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Compatibility between CloudStack an
Alex,
So does this mean that the customer will need their own public subnet space in
the public-public scenario if the VR is just acting as a router? How does this
work with automatic allocation like it does now?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
From: Alex Mattioli
Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 11
Thank you, Alex. I am excited about that addition. Even having the ability to
not have to NAT is very useful.
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What is everyone’s opinion on this setting? Worth it or no?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
So, regarding the IP assignment, this would not be done via ACS, though, if I
remember correctly. This would need to be a separate device that hands these
out?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
any attachments.
From: Jayanth Babu A
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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This is what I went ahead and used.
Has there been a feature request to create a way to directly provide a public
IP to an instance instead of using a VR?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
From: Jithin Raju
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Subject: Re: Port
Is there a way to easily forward all ports without having to put in 1 – 65525?
I know it’s small and petty, but in other places, you can do a -1 to specify
all. You don’t seem to be able to do that here.
Regards,
Marty Godsey
I use a Galera Cluster for my DB, which works without issue. I do not, for
other reasons, load balance. It is set to failover. Before I had to make this
change, I used load balance, and it worked fine, however.
Regards,
Marty Godsey
From: João Jandre Paraquetti
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Rohit,
Do you have a working config for cloud-init in windows or just simple install
it?
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Does anyone have a working sample of a cloudinit configuration file for Windows
and Linux they are willing to share?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
Rohit,
Those are the KVM images you linked?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
From: Rohit Yadav
Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at 12:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Recommended Way to Add template
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Hello All,
I usually create a new compute template on another XCP server, export and
import the disk. This works fine, but as you can imagine, it has extra steps.
How does everyone else do this? Do you create the VM in CS as an Admin and
convert?
Regards,
Marty Godsey
routes? A vm, or
specific public ip or guest network ip ?
-Wei
On Thursday, July 18, 2024, Marty Godsey wrote:
> There is no way to add static routes to the VR, is there? I know about the
> private gateway, but that’s not my use case. A VM running in this person's
> cloud creates
There is no way to add static routes to the VR, is there? I know about the
private gateway, but that’s not my use case. A VM running in this person's
cloud creates a site-to-site tunnel, and they need to send a specific subnet to
this device to be routed. This can quickly be done with a static r
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Hi Marty,
we do this on our own (still in a rudimentary scope, but want to expand). We
can try to participate from another or do you definitely want to outsource it?
Cheers
M
Hello,
Does anyone know someone who would do custom work on the CS GUI for me? I am
not looking for this to be free. 😊 Thank you for the help.
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Yes, cloudstack will copy the template from secondary storage to primary
storage again
On Wednesday, July 10, 2024, Marty Godsey wrote
Does anyone know if this database entry can be deleted? See below.
From: Marty Godsey
Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 8:32:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Unable to create new VMs or Console Proxy
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?
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Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Unable to create new VMs or Console Proxy
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uot;type":"Routing","uuid":"137e43d2-0862-4c78-b1e4-d21126f8408c"}]
2024-07-09 19:47:55,072 DEBUG [c.c.a.m.a.i.FirstFitAllocator]
(Work-Job-Executor-3:ctx-52fbf7ea job-8584/job-8596 ctx-3c8e35da
FirstFitRoutingAllocator) (logid:ab7cbd9f) Host name: csc-n1, ho
determine if that is
the real reason?
From: Marty Godsey
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: Unable to create new VMs or Console Proxy
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Hi Marty,
My guess here is that the template `13f86c22-a422-459b-90d2-450a145724b3`
from which you are creating a VM is missing on your
4-07-09 01:08:22,608 DEBUG [o.a.c.s.i.TemplateDataFactoryImpl]
(Work-Job-Executor-81:ctx-db736df7 job-6013/job-6205 ctx-fa9daf4b)
(logid:7fa21822) template 316 is already in store:6, type:Image
From: Rohit Yadav
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 12:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: R
"}
in Starting state
2024-07-09 06:57:20,380 DEBUG [o.a.c.f.j.i.AsyncJobManagerImpl]
(Work-Job-Executor-4:ctx-61e43dea job-7483/job-7492) (logid:c56ddd5b) Done
executing com.cloud.vm.VmWorkStart for job-7492
2024-07-09 06:57:20,383 INFO [o.a.c.f.j.i.AsyncJobMonitor]
(Work-Job-Executor-4:ctx-
.
Where would I check this?
From: Marty Godsey
Date: Monday, July 8, 2024 at 9:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Unable to create new VMs or Console Proxy
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Question. All of a sudden, I cannot create new VMs, and the console proxy also
can’t be created. As I spent the past hour looking, I have found that in the
console, when I go to offerings for compute, disk, or system, I get a 404, and
it says it can’t find anything for domain -1. But when I look
You can set the IP address on any VM statically, even if DHCP is enabled on the
network.
But as Weizhouapache mentioned, if you did this via template, all the VMs would
have the same IP.
If I needed to do this, I would create the VM, and change the network settings
to static like you need, but
You can set up a new virtual router offering without selecting DHCP. However,
this will only affect the machines within the subnet. The virtual router will
still pull DHCP from the public side and be the gateway you set up.
If you use the default virtual router, you can also specify the IP for t
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Hi Marty,
indeed, it is:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/8662
I guess you are on 4.19.0.1 instead of 4.19.1 ?
Best regards,
Stephan
> Marty Godsey hat am 02.07.2024 16:51 C
I have a weird issue.
When a user types in incorrect credentials, it is not saying incorrect username
or password any more. Instead it acts like it is going to log in, you get the
spinning icon, and it sits there. If you try and refresh the page, then the
login prompt never comes back, it just
Hello all,
I am looking for someone to modify the CS GUI for me. If interested, please let
me know.
I changed the theme in the config.json to the dark theme, and I like this look
better, but when I sort a list the text is unreadable cause of the color. Where
would I find the place to change this color? It’s the white portion of the
column.
https://imgur.com/a/gsfEnQ8
: Friday, June 14, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Hi Marty,
Yes, the SAML authorised
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Hi Marty,
Currently it's not support on per-domain basis. It's either globally enabled or
not, however, you can add/authorise accoun
I found this issue on the Github site:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/6641
The issue was closed because it was a duplicate:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/4286
But there has not been any movement on this since Jan 2021. Is this something
that is still marked to be add
(to a random public ip or specific public ip)
-Wei
On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, Marty Godsey wrote:
> Hello Nischal,
>
> That’s why I ask about reservations; it doesn’t. For example, I destroyed
> and recreated a console proxy yesterday, and when it was recreated, it
> grabbed anoth
same IP each time.
Thanks & Regards
Nischal
On Tue, 4 Jun, 2024, 3:49 pm Wei ZHOU, wrote:
> This should works.
> I am wondering if we can reserve specific IP for system vms, like ACS does
> for virtual routers.
>
> -Wei
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, Nischal P
.
-Wei
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> HI Marty
>
> You could technically reserve the IPs for System VMs to grab the IPs using
> the DB, by updating the table user_ip_address
>
> update user_ip_address set forsystemvms=1 where
> public_ip_address='172.16.16.17
When the system vms boot they are given an IP like 22-76-87-56.domain.com. Is
this able to be changed.
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Cc: Marty Godsey
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Hello All,
I want the system VMs always to grab the same IP. Is this possible?
Is there a way to remove the limit from a networking offering? I do not want it
limited at all. I tried putting in a -1 in the global settings and the
individual offering, which did not work.
It would be amazing to be able to hide disabled offerings (network, compute,
etc.).
Also, it would it be an easy method to just have it as permission. Something
like “Ability to see hidden offerings”?
I know you can get more complicated, but this could be a starting point.
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Can SAML be enabled on a per-domain basis?
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