On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Mike Tutkowski <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was a little surprised to see the Storage Type field when creating a > Compute Offering recently. > > The options are Local or Shared. > > I guess I was thinking that if you had a preference for a VM running on > local storage of the hypervisor or using shared storage that you would > specify this using the Storage Tags field.
Whether an instance will use local or shared storage is defined in the service offering. > > Can someone explain this a bit to me? What if you said Local for the > Storage Type, but put in a single Storage Tag that was only associated with > shared storage? > It would deploy to local storage and ignore the unavailable tag. (it will not adhere to the 'tag' in such a case, apparently the preference is to deploy to a less-than-preferred resource rather than fail - whether that's correct behavior or not is debatable, but that is current state (unless something has changed recently))
