Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Adding a xenapi_max_ephemeral_disk_size_gb flag

2013-06-24 Thread Mate Lakat
Hi, I guess, the splitting point is defined by the hypervisor, so I guess that's a +1 for the config option. Does any other hypervisor have such a limit? If so, it would make sense to set it to the minimum of all those limits. Mate On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:02:44PM +0100, John Garbutt wrote:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Adding a xenapi_max_ephemeral_disk_size_gb flag

2013-06-24 Thread Russell Bryant
On 06/21/2013 05:55 AM, John Garbutt wrote: Its just that the limit you want to set varies depending on the flavor. So flavor = 10TB, limit = 2000GB, the final disk is a bit of an odd size, maybe 1024GB would be a better split. Although you make a good point, maybe we should set the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Adding a xenapi_max_ephemeral_disk_size_gb flag

2013-06-24 Thread John Garbutt
So in the current review, I have just gone for switching between 2000GB and 1024 GB. I figure we can try this simpler approach, and worry about generalizing it if people need it later. John On 24 June 2013 16:13, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/21/2013 05:55 AM, John Garbutt

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Adding a xenapi_max_ephemeral_disk_size_gb flag

2013-06-20 Thread John Garbutt
Hi, I have had some discussions about if I should add a config flag in this change: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/32760/ I am looking to support adding a large amount of ephemeral disk space to a VM, but the VHD format has a limit of around 2TB per disk. To work around this in XenServer, I