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Instance/vm - Virtual machine running on a hypervisor. The terms may be used interchangeably.

Feature Specifications

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1. user should be able to register a template of type VHDX for Hyper-V. Functionality of being able to register a template of type VHD for Hyper-V should continue to work
2. A user should be able to create an instance on Hyper-V from template of type VHDX as well as VHD.
3. Following operation should work for volumes of type VHDX.
   1. Migrating a volume from one storage pool to another.
   2. Downloading a volume.
   3. Creating a template from volume.
   4. Downloading a template.
   5. Storage motion of volumes.
      1. Live migrating a volume attached to a running vm from one storage pool to another.
      2. Live migrating an instance with its volumes from host to another while the volumes migrate from one storage pool to another.
4. All data disks that are allocated and created on Hyper-V will be of type VHDX.
5. A cloudstack Hyper-V setup that has been upgraded from 4.3 may have existing root and data volumes of type VHD. All the supported operations; as listed in point 3 above; on these volumes should continue to work.
6. An instance can have virtual disks of type VHDX and VHD, both attached to it.

Test Guidelines

Functional

• User should be able to register a template of type VHDX or VHD for Hyper-V.
• User should be able to create instances from templates of type VHDX and VHD.
• Validate all the supported operations on volumes of type VHDX and VHD. Supported operations include
  • Migrating a volume from one storage pool to another.
  • Downloading a volume.
  • Creating a template from volume.
  • Downloading a template.
  • Storage motion of volumes.

Test Guidelines

Functional

Negative

Support-ability Characteristics

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