Re: Template management

2017-01-23 Thread Dag Sonstebo
Gesendet: Montag, 23. Januar 2017 12:28 An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: Template management Hi Swen, Keep in mind what you are doing during this process – the migration effectively merges the disk chain for each VM to a single bigger disk, which will now ta

AW: Template management

2017-01-23 Thread S . Brüseke - proIO GmbH
: Montag, 23. Januar 2017 12:28 An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: Template management Hi Swen, Keep in mind what you are doing during this process – the migration effectively merges the disk chain for each VM to a single bigger disk, which will now take up a lot more space

Re: Template management

2017-01-23 Thread Dag Sonstebo
mailto:dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017 15:34 An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: Template management Hi Swen, Assuming you are using advanced zones my idea below would involve: 1) Create a patching account in your CloudS

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2017-01-23 Thread S . Brüseke - proIO GmbH
lt? Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards, Swen -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dag Sonstebo [mailto:dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017 14:41 An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: Template management

Re: Template management

2017-01-19 Thread Dag Sonstebo
lt? Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards, Swen -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dag Sonstebo [mailto:dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017 14:41 An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: Template management

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2017-01-19 Thread Rene Moser
Hi Swen again On 01/19/2017 02:31 PM, S. Brüseke - proIO GmbH wrote: > @Rene: Of course it is the user's responsibility, but we want to provide a VM > with the latest updates each time you deploy a new VM. :-) I know that > cloud-init can do this on boot, but what if the network has no internet

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2017-01-19 Thread S . Brüseke - proIO GmbH
An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: Template management Hi Swen, If you wanted to do this on boot with cloud-init or a similar mechanism you would actually engineer the solution such that an internet connection wasn’t required. If you have every VM updating over the internet you end up

Re: Template management

2017-01-19 Thread Dag Sonstebo
anuar 2017 11:03 An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: Template management Hi Swen On 01/19/2017 10:04 AM, S. Brüseke - proIO GmbH wrote: > I am really interested in other solutions and workflows, so please > shoot. :-) We decided to not

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2017-01-19 Thread S . Brüseke - proIO GmbH
anybody know how AWS or DigitalOcean is handling this? Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards, Swen -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Rene Moser [mailto:m...@renemoser.net] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017 11:03 An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: Template management Hi

Re: Template management

2017-01-19 Thread Rene Moser
Hi Swen On 01/19/2017 10:04 AM, S. Brüseke - proIO GmbH wrote: > I am really interested in other solutions and workflows, so please shoot. :-) We decided to not doing or minimize (1-2 updates per year) templates updates for "system updates" for two main reasons: 1. It is the user's

Re: Template management

2017-01-19 Thread Dag Sonstebo
Hi Swen, You are correct – templates are not housekept on primary storage until all VMs utilizing them have been deleted (have a look at this blog post if you want to know a bit more about XenServer disk chains - http://www.shapeblue.com/recovery-of-vms-to-new-cloudstack-instance/ ). In short

Template management

2017-01-19 Thread S . Brüseke - proIO GmbH
Hey guys, I have a question regarding templates and how you manage these in you CS installation. We are planning to create a new template for Debian, CentOS and Ubuntu each month to keep them up2date, because we have a short lifecycle for servers. Does anybody do the same or has other