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Posted to users@cloudstack.apache.org by Piers <pi...@rowan.id.au> on 2014/08/26 23:41:58 UTC
cloud-install-sys-tmplt ~questions / suggestion
Hi there,
I am new to Cloudstack and have been setting up a testing / retesting
the software.
One of the things that takes a long time (and adds to the bandwidth
costs for everyone) is running cloud-install-sys-tmplt and
re-downloading the initial templates.
I guess a work around would be to save the file to a local web server
and change the URL in cloud-install-sys-tmplt -u
Another option might be to scan the /secondary directory and do an md5
hash on any images that are there (of a certain size) - if they match
then to keep the existing file and update the image database with the id
/ path.
If there is an easier way then please let me know as I haven't come
across it in the docs (yet).
Just an idea whilst I wait for the progress bar to complete......
Cheers
P
Re: cloud-install-sys-tmplt ~questions / suggestion
Posted by Piers Rowan <pi...@recruitonline.com.au>.
On 27/08/14 08:06, Geoff Higginbottom wrote:
> Hi Piers,
>
> We do a lot of clean build testing including re-deploying Secondary Storage so we just host all the templates internally then update the DB using Ansible during the initial deployment of CloudStack, also via Ansible etc
>
>
Cheers Geoff,
At this stage we are just using one server for testing but as things
grow Ansible might be worth looking into more deeply.
Cheers
P
Re: cloud-install-sys-tmplt ~questions / suggestion
Posted by Geoff Higginbottom <ge...@shapeblue.com>.
Hi Piers,
We do a lot of clean build testing including re-deploying Secondary Storage so we just host all the templates internally then update the DB using Ansible during the initial deployment of CloudStack, also via Ansible etc
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On 26 Aug 2014, at 22:42, "Piers" <pi...@rowan.id.au>> wrote:
Hi there,
I am new to Cloudstack and have been setting up a testing / retesting the software.
One of the things that takes a long time (and adds to the bandwidth costs for everyone) is running cloud-install-sys-tmplt and re-downloading the initial templates.
I guess a work around would be to save the file to a local web server and change the URL in cloud-install-sys-tmplt -u
Another option might be to scan the /secondary directory and do an md5 hash on any images that are there (of a certain size) - if they match then to keep the existing file and update the image database with the id / path.
If there is an easier way then please let me know as I haven't come across it in the docs (yet).
Just an idea whilst I wait for the progress bar to complete......
Cheers
P
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Re: cloud-install-sys-tmplt ~questions / suggestion
Posted by Piers Rowan <pi...@recruitonline.com.au>.
On 27/08/14 07:45, Erik Weber wrote:
> You can pass the file from your filesystem with the -f parameter (instead
> of -u), that way you don't really have to host it on a webserver.
>
Excellent thanks!
Perhaps a change like this in the docs might help some like me:
<h4>Alternately The System VMs Can Be Deployed From File</h4><div class="highlight-bash">
<div class="highlight"><pre>
cd /tmp/
wget
http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/systemvm/4.4/systemvm64template-4.4.0-6-kvm.qcow2.bz2
/usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt
<span class="se">\</span>
-m /secondary <span class="se">\</span>
-f /tmp/systemvm64template-4.4.0-6-kvm.qcow2.bz2<span class="se">\</span>
-h kvm -F
</pre>
</div>
</div>
Cheers
Piers
Re: cloud-install-sys-tmplt ~questions / suggestion
Posted by Erik Weber <te...@gmail.com>.
You can pass the file from your filesystem with the -f parameter (instead
of -u), that way you don't really have to host it on a webserver.
--
Erik
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Piers <pi...@rowan.id.au> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am new to Cloudstack and have been setting up a testing / retesting the
> software.
>
> One of the things that takes a long time (and adds to the bandwidth costs
> for everyone) is running cloud-install-sys-tmplt and re-downloading the
> initial templates.
>
> I guess a work around would be to save the file to a local web server and
> change the URL in cloud-install-sys-tmplt -u
>
> Another option might be to scan the /secondary directory and do an md5
> hash on any images that are there (of a certain size) - if they match then
> to keep the existing file and update the image database with the id / path.
>
> If there is an easier way then please let me know as I haven't come across
> it in the docs (yet).
>
> Just an idea whilst I wait for the progress bar to complete......
>
> Cheers
>
> P
>