Flavors in the cloud
The Infrastructure Administrator creates flavors from the Flavors screen of the CloudSystem Console.
A cloud user can select a flavor when creating a new instance in the CloudSystem Portal. The
available flavors populate the Flavor drop down list in the Launch Instance window.
Manage flavors
You can add and delete flavors in the CloudSystem Console. After a flavor is created, it cannot
be changed.
Add Flavor
Prerequisites
• Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure Administrator
Procedure 61 Adding a flavor
1. From the main menu, navigate to Flavors.
2. Select Actions→Add.
3. Enter the data. Select “Help on this page” in the CloudSystem Console for more information.
4. Click Add to complete this action.
5. Verify that the new flavor appears on the Flavors overview screen.
Procedure 62 Adding multiple flavors in one action
1. From the main menu, navigate to Flavors.
2. Select Actions→Add.
3. Enter the data.
4. Click Add + to save the flavor and reset the form for the next flavor.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you are finished adding multiple new types, then click Cancel to
dismiss the Add screen.
6. Verify that the new flavors appear on the Flavors overview screen.
Can I delete a flavor that was used to create an instance?
You can delete a flavor if the flavor has not been associated with a currently running virtual machine
instance. You can see the number of instances associated with a flavor on the Flavors overview
screen in the Instances column.
If you want to delete a flavor and the number of associated instances is one or more, do one of
the following:
Procedure 63 If you want to delete a flavor because you no longer need the instances using the
flavor
1. Make sure that the instances are no longer needed before proceeding.
In CloudSystem Foundation and CloudSystem Enterprise, information can be associated with
instances that can help you can determine ownership and use of the instances.
2. From the Instances screen, delete all instances associated with the flavor.
3. From the Flavors screen, delete the flavor that is no longer associated with any instances.
4. Verify that the flavor was deleted from the Flavors overview screen.
Procedure 64 If you want to delete a flavor because you are assigning a new flavor to one or more
instances
1. Access the CloudSystem Portal by entering https://Foundation_IP/portal in your
browser.
2. Open the CloudSystem Portal and select Instances in the Project tab.
3. Select the instance associated with the flavor you want to delete, and click More.
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