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Feature: Private host, cluster, pod

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-          Root Admins must be able to dedicate a zone, pod, cluster or cluster host to a specific domain or account - admin may or may not specify a specific resource (if pod or cluster or host is not specified explicitly, CS can optionally select an available pod/cluster/host in the zone)

-          A service offering can optionally have “dedicated” flag that the end-user can select or not select

-          Any zone can have “implicit” dedication flag on or off – this flag’s description will be clarified below

-          Only VMs that belong to the domain/sub-domain/accounts should be deployed/started on the hosts under the zone/pod/cluster dedicated resource

-          If during a VM deploy or start operation, there are no available resources among the hosts dedicated to the account then CloudStack should fail the operation. Appropriate error message should be logged and event generated-          Optionally, a global setting can allow the VM to be deployed on a parent domain/sub-domain if there is no space available in the account/sub-domain/domain's dedicated resourcesA request that does NOT have a dedicated requirement MUST not be placed on a dedicated area

-          Migration of a VM to a resource not owned by the account must fail

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-          at this time, there is no requirement for the domain/sub-domain admins to manage the resource - the root admin will remain the owner of the resources

The use case that satisfies this requirement is as follows:

Service Provider SP1 sells cloud services to a number of resellers - those resellers themselves will sell to other sub-resellers or end-users.

For this scenario, resellers might want to either dedicate 'n' pods/cluster or hosts (they may not care about a SPECIFIC pod/cluster/host) - SP1 might even ask VAR1 to (pre)pay for this resource (pod/host/cluster) that has been made exclusive to them - irrespective of whether VAR1 is able to find customer to use some/most/all of these resources or not

This feature has the following benefits/characteristics:

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