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ASF GitHub Bot commented on CLOUDSTACK-6181: -------------------------------------------- Github user mlsorensen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/281#issuecomment-105419893 Just make sure someone has actually used it to resize a volume with data. On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Remi Bergsma <notificati...@github.com> wrote: > What do we want to do with this PR? As far as I can tell it is included in > 4.5.1 and master. Just checked master and it has not been reverted. Let me > know what we want to do. @andrijapanic <https://github.com/andrijapanic> > requested a backport here http://markmail.org/thread/gau2xngqjpq5cza7. > > — > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/281#issuecomment-105227207>. > > Root resize > ----------- > > Key: CLOUDSTACK-6181 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6181 > Project: CloudStack > Issue Type: New Feature > Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the > default.) > Components: Hypervisor Controller, Storage Controller, UI > Affects Versions: 4.4.0 > Environment: KVM/libvirt/CentOS, Xenserver > Reporter: Nux > Labels: disk, resize, template > Fix For: 4.4.0 > > > Rationale: > Currently the root size of an instance is locked to that of the template. > This creates unnecessary template duplicates, prevents the creation of a > market place, wastes time and disk space and generally makes work more > complicated. > Real life example - a small VPS provider might want to offer the following > sizes (in GB): > 10,20,40,80,160,240,320,480,620 > That's 9 offerings. > The template selection could look like this, including real disk space used: > Windows 2008 ~10GB > Windows 2008+Plesk ~15GB > Windows 2008+MSSQL ~15GB > Windows 2012 ~10GB > Windows 2012+Plesk ~15GB > Windows 2012+MSSQL ~15GB > CentOS ~1GB > CentOS+CPanel ~3GB > CentOS+Virtualmin ~3GB > CentOS+Zimbra ~3GB > CentOS+Docker ~2GB > Debian ~1GB > Ubuntu LTS ~1GB > In this case the total disk space used by templates will be 828 GB, that's > almost 1 TB. If your storage is expensive and limited SSD this can get > painful! > If the root resize feature is enabled we can reduce this to under 100 GB. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)