[Openstack-operators] User-specified Root Disk Size

JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso juanfra.rodriguez.cardoso at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 15:41:55 UTC 2013


I'm afraid this feature is not available in OpenStack. Now, instance
deployments base on pre-created flavors as you mentioned above.

Regards,
---
JuanFra


2013/8/6 Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca>

> Hi,
>
> Yes, that's correct.
>
> However, what I'm looking for is the ability to change the "Disk" portion
> of the flavor on the fly while keeping the rest of the flavor attributes
> intact. This is possible in AWS.
>
> While I could create a new flavors for various root disk sizes
> (m1.tiny-10, m1.tiny-20, m1.tiny-30, m1.xlarge-10, m1.xlarge-20, etc etc),
> this still only allows for certain given sizes and wouldn't allow a user to
> specify a root disk of, say, 11 or 12gb. Not to mention the complexity of
> managing so many different flavors.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:30 AM, JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso <
> juanfra.rodriguez.cardoso at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> OpenStack make use of 'flavors' for defining sizes such as RAM, root
>> disk, swap... in your instances.
>> You can look
>> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-ops/content/flavors.html for
>> extend the info.
>>
>> Regards,
>> ---
>> JuanFra
>>
>>
>> 2013/8/6 Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca>
>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>> In Amazon AWS, when a user launches an instance, they have the ability
>>> to specify a custom root disk size. All other aspects of the flavor will
>>> stay the same.
>>>
>>>  Is this currently possible to do (Folsom+) or is there a blueprint to
>>> implement this? I apologize if there is -- I was unable to find one.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Joe
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joe Topjian
>>> Systems Architect
>>> Cybera Inc.
>>>
>>> www.cybera.ca
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Joe Topjian
> Systems Architect
> Cybera Inc.
>
> www.cybera.ca
>
> Cybera is a not-for-profit organization that works to spur and support
> innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the use
> of cyberinfrastructure.
>
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