[jira] [Commented] (CLOUDSTACK-491) Instance Cloning

["Eric Dey (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Eric Dey commented on CLOUDSTACK-491:
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  -Eric


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Eric Dey  [2]<er...@caringo.com>
Caringo, Inc.  (512)782-9902 
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> Instance Cloning
> ----------------
>
>                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-491
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-491
>             Project: CloudStack
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Template
>            Reporter: Clayton Weise
>            Priority: Minor
>
> In some cases the template process can be exhaustive and wasteful.  Templates make sense for large scale  deployments of a common image but sometimes there is a need to make one or two clones of a system.  The process of creating a template, offloading to secondary storage, then loading it _back_ onto primary only to make one or two copies of an instance seems unnecessary if there was simply an ability clone either directly on primary storage using a writable snapshot feature or offloading to secondary storage temporarily then removing the data once the copy has been made (similar to how volumes are imported).

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