On 12/04/2013 02:17 PM, Omer Frenkel wrote:


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjeli...@redhat.com>
To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel@ovirt.org>
Cc: "Omer Frenkel" <ofren...@redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 2:14:06 PM
Subject: [engine-devel] instance type as top-level entity

Hey all,

I have started to work on the instance types[1] again and hit an issue. Since
the instance types are supposed to be top-level entities
(e.g. without the connection to DC/Cluster) but they are modeled as templates
it is not possible to store them to DB since the DB constraints violation on
vm_static table
(e.g. the vds_group_id has to be unique and point to an existing vds_group).

So, I see 4 options:

1: drop the constraints on the vm_static.vds_group_id (the
vds_groups_vm_static constraint)
    (most simple approach but would open the door to some issues which are now
    guard on the DB level)

2: do the same magic [well, hacks :) ] as with the "blank" template which is
in the same situation
    (not exactly a nice solution to have the instance types wired to one
    specific cluster just to satisfy the constraint but return them all the
    time)

3: do not store this data in vm_static but create some new table called e.g.
instance_type which would contain all of the fields from vm_static which are
needed by it
    (actually the best approach AFAIK but to do it correctly it would require
    some more refactoring to do some hierarchy of tables and not copy the
    fields from table to table)

4: make the instance types not top-level (e.g. bound to specific DC/Cluster)
    (would bring some issues for example with the default instance types which
    should be present for all the DC/Clusters)

Thoughts?

Thank you,
Tomas

[1]: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Instance_Types


according to the wiki (and discussions we had) instance type is bounded to a 
cluster (even if only as a changeable default)
so i dont think there is an issue..

where in the wiki please?
the way i read the wiki its DC level, just like templates?

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