How To Add Multiple Ephemeral Disk in Virtual Machine?

Problem

How to add multiple ephemeral disk in a virtual Machine?

Environment

  • Platform9 Managed OpenStack - All Versions

  • Nova

Procedure

  1. Currently, Platform9 UI does not have an option to add additional ephemeral disks from the UI. The Openstack CLI does not provide --ephemeral option.

  2. Nova client provides the option to create an instance with multiple ephemeral disks.

# nova boot --flavor <flavor-id> --image <image-name> --nic net-name=<network-id> --ephemeral size=20,format=ext4 --ephemeral size=20,format=ext4 <vm-name>

Additional Information

For more details on the available option refer the Nova CLI documentation.

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