Re: Best way to update Templates

2016-04-19 Thread ilya
Sean, You secondary storage should grow naturally - as you add more content. Also, you would see the most benefit from link clones, when they are used optimally. That is - you separate your DATA and ROOT into 2 distinctive disks. I'm not going to bother you with explanation as i'm certain you

Re: Best way to update Templates

2016-04-18 Thread Sean Lair
Thanks for the reply Kirk. Will it auto-delete templates if there are not any VMs cloned from them? Is there a better way to keep templates up-to-date with patches? We will be patching these templates fairly often as Microsoft releases new patches. It sounds like our secondary storage will

RE: Best way to update Templates

2016-04-18 Thread Kirk Kosinski
Hi, yes that is a good way to do it. Note that if you do delete a template that is in use, it won't actually be deleted on the back-end (i.e. the database entries will remain, as will the files on secondary storage), rather it is just hidden from the end-users in the UI and API. Giving a new