[jira] [Commented] (CLOUDSTACK-529) VM deployment re-design on VMware

["Tamas Monos (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tamas Monos commented on CLOUDSTACK-529:
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Also I believe the deployed template should be thick and not thin, as it is a common problem in vmware to export a thin disk so snapshots potentially can timeout (export OVF templates).


                
> VM deployment re-design on VMware
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-529
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-529
>             Project: CloudStack
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: VMware
>    Affects Versions: 4.0.0
>         Environment: CentOS + vSphere 4.1/5.1
>            Reporter: Tamas Monos
>            Priority: Critical
>
> Hi,
> The current mechanism to deploy VMs from templates has its weaknesses:
> - The linked-on-clone way always requires the original template files/vmdisk to exist on the primary/seconary storage as it is missing (updated template replaced the old one) all VMs were built from an old template will fail to start forever.
> - Expensive primary storage is used to storage linked-in-clone disks, and cannot be cleaned up efficiently.
> - Clean-up scripts for storage clean-up is potentially dangerous and capable to self-destruction in case of reference errors (happened on my sandbox platform).
> The optimal way would be in my eyes:
> - Deploy the OVF template directly from the mounted secondary nfs storage.
> - No snapshots, no dependency, all VMs must be independent so if there is any problem its impact is small/local.
> - CloudStack should not be worried about "storage efficiency", that is up for the storage backend.
> Many could say linked-in-clones are good because reduces the primary storage usage.
> It might help in some scenarios, but introduces unnecessary complexity, maintenance overhead and could actually lead to performance degradation (dozens of VMs accessing the same template disks, race for locking) and inefficient in terms of template storage. I need to storage all previous and current templates on which VMs are relying on.

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