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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hey,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I wrote a <b>function for distinguishing an image instance from an boot from volume instance</b> for billing purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>But it does not work this way, it seems as if BfV Instances also have the Image property set.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Is there an elegant solution other than analyzing the volume attachment state?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>This cloud be a problem, because an image instance cloud also have volumes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>def getBootFromVolInstances(serverId):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> '''Determines wether an instance is a boot frome volume instance'''<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> server = conn.compute.find_server(serverId, ignore_missing=True)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> if server:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> if server.image:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> return False<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> else:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> return True<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> return False<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:120%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.05pt'>Merlin Blom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:120%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.05pt'>Cloud System Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:120%;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.05pt'>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:merlin.blom@bertelsmann.de"><span style='color:blue'>merlin.blom@bertelsmann.de</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:120%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.05pt'><a href="https://www.arvato-systems.de"><span lang=DE style='color:blue'>arvato-systems.de</span></a></span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>