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Introduction

Currently in Apache CloudStack, a user can only deploy a VM from templates or ISOs but not directly from VM snapshots. To deploy a VM off another VM at a given point in time, today a CloudStack user needs to take a snapshot of the original VM’s volume at that point in time, create a template from the snapshot backup of the volume and then deploy a VM from the template. This work flow is tedious and time consuming as it involves multiple data transfers over network,

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This document describes a feature that will be introduced to ease the above process by providing users with the ability to deploy VMs directly from VM snapshots residing on the primary storage.

Purpose

This is the functional specification for feature ‘Deploy VM from VM Snapshot’.

References

JIRA Ticket

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