On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Koushik Das <koushik....@citrix.com> wrote: > See inline > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] >> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:30 AM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Local versus Shared Storage Type for Compute Offering >> >> 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. >> > > Storage type in compute offering is for root disk of VM (whether needs to be > created on local storage or shared). Based on this validation are also made > as to what all operations are permitted on the VM, disks. > Storage tags are only used for placements when there are multiple options > available for either local or shared storage. > >> 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? >> > > In this case deployment should fail >
Has something changed recently with how we treat tags? As of 3.0.x we would disregard the tag if we couldn't deploy to the tagged resource. (/me goes to try this in 4.0.x) --David
