Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - DEVELOPMENT CLIENT REFERENCE 08-28-2009 Reference page 115

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Best Practices for Entering Repository File Paths
Because of some limitations in the current (2.0.2) release of PlateSpin Orchestrate, we suggest that
you use the following guidelines in scenarios where you need VM repositories.
"Creating a Repository to Use with New VMs" on page 115
"Creating a Repository to Use with Existing VMs" on page 115
"Creating a Repository for Existing VMs with Shared Root Locations and Separate
Configuration Directories" on page 116
Creating a Repository to Use with New VMs
If you are creating a repository for new VMs that you will eventually provision, use the following
steps:
1 In the Root Location
Example:
/vms_new
2 In the Preferred Storage Path
Location path). This becomes the path for VM configuration files and VM image files when
you associate a VM with this repository.
Example: (no leading forward slash)
images
Because the fields are concatenated, the provisioning adapter searches for the existing VM files
in
/vms_new/images
Creating a Repository to Use with Existing VMs
When you already have VMs in your grid, so a store for the VM configuration and disk image files
already exists,
1 In the
Root Location
Example:
/vms_new
2 In the VM Config Search Path
store (relative to the Root Location path).
Example:
old_config
Because the fields are concatenated, the provisioning adapter searches for the existing VM
configuration files in
3 In the Preferred Storage Path
the Root Location path). This also becomes the path for VM configuration files and VM image
files when you associate a VM with this repository.
Example:
all_images
Because the fields are concatenated, the provisioning adapter searches for the existing VM files
in
/vms_new/all_images
field, enter the location for the new repository.
field, enter the path to your image file store (relative to the Root
.
field, enter the shared location for this repository.
field, enter the search path to your existing configuration file
(no leading forward slash)
/vms_new/old_config
field, enter the path to your existing image file store (relative to
(no leading forward slash)
.
.
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