I do not believe there is any global config or API to achieve what you want (force template download from secondary to primary storage for every deployment on the same storage).
An easy way to work around this would be to make 20 copies of the template (basically register the same template 20 times with different names) and force VM deployments to use a new template each time. Somesh CloudPlatform Escalations Citrix Systems, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Kyle Flavin [mailto:kyle.fla...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:53 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Clearing template cache on primary storage Is it possible to clear template cache on primary storage prior to VM deployment, via cloudmonkey or some other method? I'm doing some performance tests on one of our Cloudstack clusters that is running Xenserver. For testing purposes, I'd like to force the copy of the template from secondary storage to primary storage, with each deployment on this cluster. I'm kicking off the vm instance deployments in batches of 20. I want the template to be pulled down to primary storage each time a deployment starts. I've looked over the API and I don't see anything that quite matches what I'm looking for. It looks like "prepareTemplate" will allow me to cache the template on primary storage, but I'd like to "uncache" prior to deploying a new instance: https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.2/root_admin/prepareTemplate.html, and there doesn't appear to be an obvious way to do so. Thanks, Kyle
