While googling the subject, I came across the following slide deck: http://www.slideshare.net/srivastavasaksham/explicit-dedication-in-cloudstack, and on slide #7 it explained all.
Once I assign this new ExplicitDedicate affinity group to my instances, they all get created on the intended cluster. Yiping On 10/19/15, 11:41 AM, "Yiping Zhang" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, all: > >I am trying to work out the best way of deploying VM’s onto a dedicated >cluster. Here is what my CloudStack setup looks like: > >Domains: d1, d2, d3, d4 >Clusters: c1 (dedicated to d1), c2 (not dedicated) >Currently, I am not using tags for hosts, storages, service offerings at all. > >When I login to domains d2/d3/d4, and create new VM’s, they will go to >cluster c2. That’s great as it is the intended results. >However, when I login to domain d1 and create new VM’s, they can go to >either cluster c1 or c2, but I would like VM’s only go to c1. > >Is using host/storage tags and matching tags in service offering the only way >to achieve this goal ? > >The reason I am reluctant to use tags is that leads to proliferation of >service offerings, as the resulting number of SO could grow exponentially >with the number of host/storage tags introduced. > >Thanks, > >Yiping
