Chapter 7. Prepare Secondary Storage

Secondary storage in all Zones must be seeded with a template that is used for system VMs such as the Virtual Router. For each Secondary storage server you will need to execute the following steps.

Note

The 2.1 series system VM template will not work on 2.2. You must use the 2.2 system VM template.

Mount secondary storage on to your Management Server. This example assumes the path on the secondary storage server is /nfs/share.
```
# mount -t nfs servername:/nfs/share /mnt/secondary
```
Retrieve and decompress the system VM template. Run the script /usr/lib64/cloud/agent/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt, which is installed on the Management Server. Run this for each hypervisor type that you expect end users to run in this Zone. This will give the system maximum flexibility to run system virtual machines. This process will require approximately 10 GB of free space on the local file system each time it runs.
The command to run depends on hypervisor type.
For KVM
```
# /usr/lib64/cloud/agent/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt -m /mnt/secondary \
-u http://download.cloud.com/releases/2.2.0/systemvm.qcow2.bz2 -h kvm -F
```
For XenServer
```
# /usr/lib64/cloud/agent/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt -m /mnt/secondary \
-u http://download.cloud.com/releases/2.2.0/systemvm.vhd.bz2 -h xenserver -F
```
Each one of these files is large. It may take 30 minutes or more to download and uncompress.
Unmount secondary storage when the script has finished.
```
# umount /mnt/secondary
```