VSS Command Line Interface (vss-cli) v2022.9.0
- JM Lopez
VSS-CLI v2022.9.0 is available for download via PyPI or GitLab. Latest version includes the following improvements and bug fixes:
- 1 Improvements
- 1.1 compute vm mk --storage-type: to set preferred storage type during deployment (#553)
- 1.2 compute vm get spec: adds storage-type to vss-cli spec (#556)
- 1.3 compute vm mk from-spec: adds storage-type support to vss-cli spec (#557)
- 1.4 core: update pyvss to 2022.9.0. (#554)
- 1.5 core: update pick to 2.0.2. (#555)
- 2 Upgrade
Improvements
compute vm mk --storage-type: to set preferred storage type during deployment (#553)
Commands
compute vm mk shellcompute vm mk from-clibcompute vm mk from-clonecompute vm mk from-imagecompute vm mk from-speccompute vm mk from-template
Description
We have improved the storage selection for deployment in the ITS Private Cloud API to make it simpler and more specific with respect to the type. Each compute cluster aka Domain, has at least two storage clusters: SSD and HDD backed.
With this improvements, the vss-cli allows to specify the type of backing storage to use in a new virtual machine deployment from: ssd and hdd. Based on your selection, the ITS Private Cloud API will prioritize based on certain criteria the virtual instance deployment. For instance:
The limit for a VM to be on SSDs is 6TiB.
vss-cli --wait compute vm mk shell -d 'InfluxDB instance for performance counters' \
--os ubuntu64Guest --folder group-v4122 -b Client \
--scsi '{"type": "paravirtual", "bus": 0}' \
--disk '{"capacity_gb": 10, "bus": 0}' \
--disk '{"capacity_gb": 200, "bus": 0}' \
--cpu 4 --memory 8 --net 463186 \
--iso Ubuntu-22.04 \
--tpm --firmware efi \
--storage-type ssd \
--power-on \
influx-001Setup auto-completion and the --storage-type option could be auto-completed with a couple of tabs.
After completing, let’s verify the storage type influx-001 uses:
vss-cli --columns "moref,name,disks[*].label,storage_type" compute vm ls -f name=influx-001
moref name disks[*].label storage_type
--------- ---------------- ------------------------ --------------
vm-564792 2209T-influx-001 Hard disk 1, Hard disk 2 ssdcompute vm get spec: adds storage-type to vss-cli spec (#556)
compute vm mk from-spec: adds storage-type support to vss-cli spec (#557)
core: update pyvss to 2022.9.0. (#554)
core: update pick to 2.0.2. (#555)
Upgrade
Remember, VSS-CLI documentation is now available in VSS-CLI and the full Change Log is available http://eis.utoronto.ca/~vss/vss-cli/changelog.html . Upgrade or install VSS-CLI as follows:
# using vss-cli
vss-cli upgrade
# upgrade with pip
pip install vss-cli --upgrade
# install
pip install vss-cli |
For more information, please refer to the official documentation site.
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