As I had mentioned in my last mail ROOT disk is created based on the service offering. There is NO separate disk offering associated with a ROOT disk. Disk offering is only for DATA disks. What specific properties are you interested in for the ROOT disk?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Coates [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Identifying a VM's ROOT disk offering via the database > > The Service Offering isn't a DISK Offering though, it only specifies CPU, RAM > etc. How do you find the DISK Offering???? > > (I feel like I'm going around in circles here lol!) > > > On 25 June 2013 13:59, Koushik Das <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For ROOT disk the service offering gets used. For data disk you use > > the disk offering. The 'disk_offering' table has a field called 'type' > > which says if it is a disk or service offering. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Andy Coates [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 8:11 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Identifying a VM's ROOT disk offering via the database > > > > > > Unfortunately no, that's the Service Offering ID. > > > > > > > > > On 25 June 2013 07:20, Koushik Das <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Check out the 'volumes' table in the database. There is a > > > > 'disk_offering_id' column. Based on this id check the 'disk_offering' > > > > table to see the details. > > > > Is this what you are looking for? > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Andy Coates [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 7:43 PM > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Subject: Re: Identifying a VM's ROOT disk offering via the > > > > > database > > > > > > > > > > Hi Sanjay, > > > > > > > > > > That may be the case, but how do you identify what Disk Offering > > > > > those ROOT disks are based on? > > > > > > > > > > After you create a VM you can identify its Service Offering, but > > > > > not its > > > > Disk > > > > > Offering - and that's what I'm trying to establish here. > > > > > > > > > > Some of our Disk Offerings use SATA disks, some use SAS, or even > > > > > Fiber Channel. When a VM is created from an ISO you can choose > > > > > the Disk Offering, but where is that information stored afterwards? > > > > > Likewise if I made a template of that new VM's disk, would it > > > > > continue to use the same Disk Offering the original VM was made > > > > > on, > > and > > > where can I identify that? > > > > > > > > > > Andy. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 24 June 2013 21:58, Sanjay Tripathi > > > > > <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Andy, > > > > > > > > > > > > If you are deploying a VM from an ISO, the DATA DISK you > > > > > > select becomes the ROOT DISK for that VM and if you are > > > > > > deploying a VM from a template, then the size of template > > > > > > becomes the size of ROOT DISK and you can select additional > > > > > > DISK as DATA DISK from disk offering for the > > > > VM. > > > > > > > > > > > > --Sanjay > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > > From: Andy Coates [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > > > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 6:33 PM > > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > > Subject: Identifying a VM's ROOT disk offering via the > > > > > > > database > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know where in the database you can find out what > > > > > > > Disk Offering a VM's ROOT disk is based on? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To follow on from that, if you made a template from a new VM > > > > > > > (via ISO > > > > > > > image) that, for example, used MyDiskOfferingA, would > > > > > > > further instances > > > > > > of > > > > > > > that template also use the same Disk Offering (as you cannot > > > > > > > change the ROOT disk offering from a template instantiation)? > > > > > > > The templates assign > > > > > > the > > > > > > > same disk size, I'm just not sure how it knows if it's a > > > > > > > specific Disk > > > > > > Offering or > > > > > > > not. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > Andy. > > > > > > > > > > > >
