[Labs-l] Instances with large local storage

Fri Jun 19 17:26:09 UTC 2015

On 6/19/15 8:25 AM, Petr Bena wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Right now it's not easily possible to create instance with decent
> local storage. If I wanted 160GB instance I also have to use 8CPU's
> and 16GB of ram.
>
> But I don't need so much, I just need the storage, I am fine with 1
> CPU and 512MB of ram. So why don't we have different combinations when
> spinning up new instances?
>
> If I wanted to make instance that is NFS-independent, such as postgre
> server, I would probably need to plan a bit because there is no way to
> add more disks or extend instance later. So far NFS was only storage
> that did scale at some point.
>
> Is it possible to create different instance templates with different resources?
Possible and easy.  Open a phab task and assign it to me and I'll create 
the new flavor.  In the request you can specify whether you think this 
flavor is of general interest or should be limited to your own project.

-A