The templates do get cleaned up if there is no active volume referring to it on the primary storage. There is a storage clean up thread running which cleans them up. Check for storage.cleanup.interval in the global settings to see how often it runs. Btw for XS case we just keep 1 copy of the template and all the volumes of the vms created from the same template refer to it thus saving us from keeping N copies of the same template.
On 18-Oct-2012, at 3:37 PM, Fabrice Brazier wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > > When you create a VM from a template, the template is deployed on the > primary storage and the VM is created from this template then. > > The template on the primary storage is not deleted and takes space. I > guess, the purpose is to save time when you deploy the same template on the > same primary storage with a cloning process. > > Does it possible to delete these templates after a specific time ? > > > > For a customer, it’s taking a lot of space and we want to delete these > templates through CloudStack and not manually in the datastore. > > > > Thanks for your feedback, > > Fabrice > > > > -- > Fabrice Brazier > *Apalia*™* > *FR: +33-632-73-53-00 > *http://www.apalia.net** > **[email protected]*
