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OS template deployment [message #5437] Fri, 18 May 2007 04:29 Go to next message
rviradia is currently offline rviradia  United States
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It would be nice to have an option to store/deploy OS templates from each node itself (maybe a manual sync feature if new OS templates are added), this way there is no data transfer from CP node to VPS nodes. The reason I bring this up is we have multiple networks and it unnecessarily spikes bandwidth if we deploy a VPS to a node on a network other then where the CP server is located,

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Re: OS template deployment [message #5453 is a reply to message #5437] Sat, 19 May 2007 01:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Lxhelp
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The ostemplates are downloaded only once. So if the total network overhead is exactly the same as if you want to manually deploy the ostemplates on each slave.

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On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:29:32AM -0000, roger wrote:
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> It would be nice to have an option to store/deploy OS templates from each node itself (maybe a manual sync feature if new OS templates are added), this way there is no data transfer from CP node to VPS nodes. The reason I bring this up is we have multiple networks and it unnecessarily spikes bandwidth if we deploy a VPS to a node on a network other then where the CP server is located,
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> Thanks
Re: OS template deployment [message #5454 is a reply to message #5453] Sat, 19 May 2007 02:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
rviradia is currently offline rviradia  United States
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Cool, so the initial install of the template copies from CP to slave node, thereafter installs pull locally from /vz/template/cache/ in openvz,

Thanks

Lxhelp wrote on Sat, 19 May 2007 01:57

The ostemplates are downloaded only once. So if the total network overhead is exactly the same as if you want to manually deploy the ostemplates on each slave.

Thanks.


On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:29:32AM -0000, roger wrote:
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> It would be nice to have an option to store/deploy OS templates from each node itself (maybe a manual sync feature if new OS templates are added), this way there is no data transfer from CP node to VPS nodes. The reason I bring this up is we have multiple networks and it unnecessarily spikes bandwidth if we deploy a VPS to a node on a network other then where the CP server is located,
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Re: OS template deployment [message #65246 is a reply to message #5453] Tue, 19 May 2009 11:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mitgib is currently offline mitgib  United States
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Lxhelp wrote on Sat, 19 May 2007 01:57
The ostemplates are downloaded only once. So if the total network overhead is exactly the same as if you want to manually deploy the ostemplates on each slave.

Thanks.


On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:29:32AM -0000, roger wrote:
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> It would be nice to have an option to store/deploy OS templates from each node itself (maybe a manual sync feature if new OS templates are added), this way there is no data transfer from CP node to VPS nodes. The reason I bring this up is we have multiple networks and it unnecessarily spikes bandwidth if we deploy a VPS to a node on a network other then where the CP server is located,
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> Thanks



I know this is a very old topic, but my idea is along these lines, just a little change. The ostemplate system is very intelligent as is, but I'd like to request a little more intelligence added to it.

My idea is to have a central template cache per data center. I've never seen a need for this until I grew a cluster in a remote data center when you have a good cache on the 1st node in the remote cluster, add a second node, and now the new node is pulling templates from the master which happens to be in another data center, when the templates are most likely already on another node in the same data center.

Then if the requested template does not exist on the remote cluster cache master, revert to the master which will always maintain a full cache, but copy it to the cluster cache master as well since it will be local lan traffic and no cost.
Re: OS template deployment [message #65249 is a reply to message #65246] Tue, 19 May 2009 09:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hello,

Yes, nice feature, but slave download only once.
Instead of slave downloads from master we can copy the templates from slave to slave manually from the same data center.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 03:57:53PM -0000, Tim Flavin wrote:
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Re: OS template deployment [message #65259 is a reply to message #65249] Tue, 19 May 2009 12:44 Go to previous message
mitgib is currently offline mitgib  United States
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lxbhargava wrote on Tue, 19 May 2009 09:38

Hello,

Yes, nice feature, but slave download only once.
Instead of slave downloads from master we can copy the templates from slave to slave manually from the same data center.



But that is my whole suggestion, to avoid manually doing this and allow the system to manage the templates better. I understand the slave only downloads once, but when your master is bandwidth limited, why pull from the master when the slave could get it from another local slave in minutes rather then an hour or more?

My master is in a datacenter that rate-limits as opposed to charging for burst overages. I would bet some have 10mbit ports to the net but 100/1000 ports on local lans at both ends.

I am not awake 24/7 to manually copy templates when needed, but my billing system is awake 24/7 telling HyperVM to setup new clients as they pay for new services.
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