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Status Future consideration
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 18, 2019

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PowerVC - versioning of instances

PowerVC provides Snapshot to capture disk of a vm or instance. This information does not include vm details (cpu memory network etc)
Capturing an image of a vm would include all data, but this feature doesn't provide a way to tie that image as a "backup" for a given vm or instance

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 15, 2020

    This is very similar to a request I was going to submit. Taking the traceability of an image further within the GUI with the capability to deploy older versions of an image.

    Eg. Today, I have an image for a base install of RHEL 7.6 LE, which I'll call RHEL7.6LE_v1.0. Today that image doesn't have RMC, which is an issue I'd like to fix in the near future. To make that new change, I would take the RHEL7.6LE_v1.0 image, deploy it. Once I have RMC enabled, I would capture it as a new image RHEL7.6LE_v1.1. Now I have two images in my list, which as we continue to add functionality / changes 1.2, 1.3 it starts to clog the repo list.

    Having this trackable, and reversible (using snapshots?) in a collapsible manner in the UI would be very helpful. That way I can eliminate the need for versioning, since we could add comments to the version tracking!

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 10, 2019

    Thanks for the suggestion - we'll consider this for a future release

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