CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack) Version 4.2 Administrator's Guide
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12.7. Using Cisco UCS as Bare Metal Host CloudPlatform ...... ............. ............. ............. ... 105
12.7.1. Registering a UCS Manager ......................................................................... 106
12.7.2. Associating a Profile with a UCS Blade ......................................................... 106
12.7.3. Disassociating a Profile from a UCS Blade ...... ............. ............. ............. ....... 107
12.8. Changing Host Password ........................................................................................ 107
12.9. Over-Provisioning and Service Offering Limits .......... ............. ............. ............ .......... 108
12.9.1. Limitations on Over-Provisioning in XenServer and KVM . ............. ............. ..... 109
12.9.2. Requirements for Over-Provisioning .............................................................. 109
12.9.3. Setting Over-Provisioning Ratios ................................................................... 109
12.9.4. Service Offering Limits and Over-Provisioning ............ ............. ............. .......... 110
12.10. VLAN Provisioning ................................................................................................ 110
12.10.1. VLAN Allocation Example ........................................................................... 111
12.10.2. Adding Non Contiguous VLAN Ranges ........................................................ 111
12.10.3. Assigning VLANs to Isolated Networks ........................................................ 112
13. Working with Templates 113
13.1. Creating Templates: Overview ................................................................................. 113
13.2. Requirements for Templates ................................................................................... 113
13.3. Best Practices for Templates ................................................................................... 113
13.4. The Default Template ............................................................................................. 113
13.5. Private and Public Templates .................................................................................. 114
13.6. Creating a Template from an Existing Virtual Machine ....... ............. ............. ............. 114
13.7. Creating a Template from a Snapshot ..................................................................... 115
13.8. Uploading Templates .............................................................................................. 115
13.9. Exporting Templates ............................................................................................... 117
13.10. Creating a Windows Template ............................................................................... 117
13.10.1. System Preparation for Windows Server 2008 R2 ........... ............. ............. ... 117
13.10.2. System Preparation for Windows Server 2003 R2 ........... ............. ............. ... 121
13.11. Importing Amazon Machine Images ....................................................................... 122
13.12. Converting a Hyper-V VM to a Template ................................................................ 125
13.13. Adding Password Management to Your Templates .......... ............. ............. ............. 126
13.13.1. Linux OS Installation .................................................................................. 127
13.13.2. Windows OS Installation ............................................................................. 127
13.14. Deleting Templates ............................................................................................... 127
14. Working With Storage 129
14.1. Storage Overview ................................................................................................... 129
14.2. Primary Storage ..................................................................................................... 129
14.2.1. Best Practices for Primary Storage ............................................................... 129
14.2.2. Runtime Behavior of Primary Storage ........................................................... 129
14.2.3. Hypervisor Support for Primary Storage ........................................................ 129
14.2.4. Storage Tags ............................................................................................... 130
14.2.5. Maintenance Mode for Primary Storage ......................................................... 131
14.3. Secondary Storage ................................................................................................. 131
14.3.1. Best Practices for Secondary Storage ........................................................... 131
14.3.2. Changing the Secondary Storage IP Address .......... ............ ............. ............. 131
14.3.3. Changing Secondary Storage Servers ........................................................... 132
14.4. Working With Volumes ............................................................................................ 132
14.4.1. Creating a New Volume ............................................................................... 132
14.4.2. Uploading an Existing Volume to a Virtual Machine ......... ............. ............. ..... 133
14.4.3. Attaching a Volume ...................................................................................... 134
14.4.4. Detaching and Moving Volumes .................................................................... 135
14.4.5. VM Storage Migration .................................................................................. 135
14.4.6. Resizing Volumes ........................................................................................ 137
14.4.7. Reset VM to New Root Disk on Reboot ......................................................... 138