The question is (at least in my mind) do you want the deployment to fail (appropriately) or to 'work' from the end user perspective, even if it doesn't follow your way of getting things done perfectly.
Before we dig into it, you could create template names or descriptions with hints to help folks along. So the easiest solution is to tag one of your XS storage offerings with the same tags. So if someone screws up, and chooses a XS template, and a VMW-intended service offering, it will still deploy - they'll be slightly disappointed but at least working. Neither of these seem elegant - ideally we'd limit what you could see based on the previous choices before, but CloudStack doesn't currently do that. --David On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Steve Searles <ssear...@zimcom.net> wrote: > I am looking for a little guidance in tying templates to compute offerings or > filtering them in the instance deployment wizard. For example as we step > through the wizard we can choose Zone -> Template -> Compute Offering, in our > case it is possible to create an undeployable situation by choosing a compute > offering where a host tag is defined but the template selected does not > support the hypervisor in the host tag. > > For example, I have both xenserver and vmware. I have defined a compute > offering with a storage tag for Fibrechannel storage that is not available on > xenserver but you can still choose that compute offering after selecting a > xenserver template which will make an undeployable situation. Perhaps I am > not using host/storage tags properly but they seem to be functioning as > intended. I am trying to make the deployment process as simple as possible > for the end user and not allow them to choose incompatible offerings. I > fully admit that I may be looking at this wrong and am looking for some > guidance on setting up the offerings. I have the following defined and it > seems kind of a mess. > > > Vmware- > Storage Offering #1 - EMC VMAX (High I/O) > Storage Offering #2 - EMX VNX (Standard I/O) > Storage Offering #3 - EMC ISOLON (NFS/Replicated) > > XenServer Storage Offering #1 - EMC AX (Standard I/O) > Storage Offering #2 - EMC ISOLON (NFS/Replicated) > > > > Steve Searles > >
