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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am struggling to find a solution given the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A cluster of two or more servers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Each server has a storage volume attached<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If a server goes down (disappears) it should attach to the same (identical content) volume when it is re-created<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Minimal manual intervention for all life-cycle use cases<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Fully managed vi Heat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If it would be possible to define the following logic, it would be great, but I have not found any way to do this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For each server, pre-declare the name of the volume to attach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">When server is created and a volume with the pre-declared name exists, that volume is attached<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">When a server is created and a volume with the pre-declared name does not exist, such a volume is automatically created<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt">When a server is deleted, its attached volume is deattached but not deleted (could do this using “deletion_policy: ‘Retain’” )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I would be happy to receive feedback on any idea that will take me closer to a solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have tried to use “external_id:” in conjunction with OS::Cinder::Volume in order to get a pre-declared name for each volume, but that did not work as I expected it to. I ma currently on “Newton”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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