Hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:22 PM, ML mail <mlnos...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Carlos, > > I understand that the "cloud-way" to go would be to have a contextualized > image which I would upload and then instantiate instead of manually > installing a VM like I did. > > Which best-practice deployment would you suggest for more permament VMs? > Would you instantiate a non-persistant OS image and have a persistent > datablock for the data? (I think that is the classical way) What about the > configuration files? Let's say I would have MySQL data on the datablock but > then my MySQL configuration would be stored on the non-persistant image > which could be a problem if I undeploy my VM by error. > > Regards, > M.L. > I'd make all the VM disk images persistent. If you don't want to make the OS persistent but need to preserve some files, maybe you could create a small datablock persistent image for that data. Or if the data does not need to be updated, take a look at the CONTEXT type images [1]. Regards [1] http://docs.opennebula.org/stable/user/virtual_resource_management/img_guide.html -- Carlos Martín, MSc Project Engineer OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | cmar...@opennebula.org | @OpenNebula <http://twitter.com/opennebula> > > > On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 3:21 PM, Carlos Martín Sánchez < > cmar...@opennebula.org> wrote: > Hi, > > For some things OpenNebula is more oriented to disposable VMs. In this > case, you need to save the disks you want to preserve, shutdown the VM, and > create a new VM Template (or edit the existing one) without the cdrom and > context disks. > > Regards > > -- > Carlos Martín, MSc > Project Engineer > OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple > www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | cmar...@opennebula.org| > @OpenNebula <http://twitter.com/opennebula> <cmar...@opennebula.org> > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:07 AM, ML mail <mlnos...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed a VM manually on a datablock image using the Fedora 20 DVD as > a cdrom image. For that I had to define these two images in my VM template. > Now that I have installed Fedora I would like to permanently remove the > cdrom image from my VM storage. I tried from Sunstone to detach it while > running the VM but this fails as it is on the IDE bus (hdb). > > So quite a trivial question but how do I remove this cdrom as storage from > my VM? The same question applies to the context cdrom which is always > present. > > Regards, > M.L. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > >
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