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ASF GitHub Bot commented on CLOUDSTACK-4757: -------------------------------------------- Github user abhinandanprateek commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1989 This PR is basically merging https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/multiple-disk-ova. And continue to build on it. > Support OVA files with multiple disks for templates > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CLOUDSTACK-4757 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4757 > Project: CloudStack > Issue Type: New Feature > Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the > default.) > Components: Storage Controller > Affects Versions: 4.3.0 > Reporter: Likitha Shetty > Assignee: Likitha Shetty > Fix For: Future > > > CloudStack volumes and templates are one single virtual disk in case of > XenServer/XCP and KVM hypervisors since the files used for templates and > volumes are virtual disks (VHD, QCOW2). However, VMware volumes and templates > are in OVA format, which are archives that can contain a complete VM > including multiple VMDKs and other files such as ISOs. And currently, > Cloudstack only supports Template creation based on OVA files containing a > single disk. If a user creates a template from a OVA file containing more > than 1 disk and launches an instance using this template, only the first disk > is attached to the new instance and other disks are ignored. > Similarly with uploaded volumes, attaching an uploaded volume that contains > multiple disks to a VM will result in only one VMDK to being attached to the > VM. > This behavior needs to be improved in VMWare to support OVA files with > multiple disks for both uploaded volumes and templates. i.e. If a user > creates a template from a OVA file containing more than 1 disk and launches > an instance using this template, the first disk should be attached to the new > instance as the ROOT disk and volumes should be created based on other VMDK > disks in the OVA file and should be attached to the instance. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)