Clone from templateon NFS to local storage

[laskolnyk]

Hi guys,
I have an issue with figuring out the bast way to clone from nfs storage. I have an ubuntu server template located on shared nfs storage with cloudinit config, and I want to clone it directly to one of my cluster’s node. It seems I cannot select target storage other than shared one where template is located. The reason I want to do it, is I am using SFF micro PCs (1L), but these are limited with storage options, although they’re energy efficient. Each node has one SATA SSD for OS and nvme for data (ZFS). Am I doing something wrong or this is by design? What are the current best option? In the end I’d like to use ansible to automate the deployments, but I can see there may be limitations using shared storage as a source of template.

2nd thing - When I clone the template move machine to local storage I cannot start as it seems the vendor.yml file missing. Am I doing something wrong?

best,
L

 

[bbgeek17]

I want to clone it directly to one of my cluster’s node.

When cloning the template the default selection is "Linked Clone". This clone can live only on the same storage where the template is located.
If you select "Full Clone" then you will be able to change the target storage.
Full clone will make a complete copy of the template, whereas Linked Clone will create a thin, changes only, copy.

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[laskolnyk]

Nope. When selecting full clone there is no option to choose other storage than the shared nfs one. My storage.cfg is containing records for all nodes.

 

[3rdcycle]

Did you figure this out? I have the same problem. We create nightly templates on shared nfs storage but our VMs run on local-zfs. I can only select nfs as target storage, even with "Full Clone" selected.