Thanks, Wido! On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
> > > On 07/22/2014 07:14 AM, Mike Tutkowski wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm thinking Wido knows the answer to this, but - of course - anyone feel >> free to chime in. :) >> >> > Hehe > > I was looking at this video of Wido's from CCCEU13 in Amsterdam: >> >> Wido den Hollander -- Cloudstack and Ceph >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57voBP_zdf8&feature=youtu.be> >> >> In it, Wido talks about cloning a template on the Ceph cluster, then >> deploying multiple VMs from the clones. >> >> > It's done automatically by the KVM Agent. > > The first time a template is downloaded from Secondary Storage to Primary > Storage it's a full copy. > > After that the KVM Agent creates a RBD snapshot called > "cloudstack-base-snap" and that snapshot is used for all operations > afterwards. > > The KVM Agent knows there is a snapshot called "cloudstack-base-snap" and > that snapshot is then used when a new Instance is deployed from that > template. > > There is nothing special you have to do. Simply deploy a template and it's > done for you. > > I was wondering if we have documentation that would show me how this >> actually works in CloudStack (first from a user's standpoint and then from >> a developer's standpoint). >> >> > See the explanation above! > > Wido > > Thanks! >> >> -- *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>*™*
