<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://1087/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2012, at 8:41 AM, "Karajgi, Rohit" <<a href="mailto:Rohit.Karajgi@nttdata.com">Rohit.Karajgi@nttdata.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Currently I don’t think there is any logic to map a list of block device mappings to multiple instances if the count is > 1.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">For eg: If a user requests to create 3 instances and passes 3 volumes to be booted from, should there be a 1:1 mapping<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">between the instance list and the volume list?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>I don't think we should support multiple boot from volumes. If someone needs to specify a different volume for each instance they should launch each request separately. If you are referring to booting from a snapshot, I believe the code in manager updates the block device mapping for each instance when it creates the volume.</div><div><br></div><div>Vish</div></body></html>