Flavor

Flavor is a virtual hardware configuration profile that defines the resource allocation required for a virtual machine (VM) or instance, including the number of vCPUs, amount of memory, and root disk size. Flavors are a critical component of the Compute (Nova) service, enabling users to create consistent and manageable templates for compute resources within a cloud platform.

Create Flavor

1. Navigate to Administrator > Compute > Flavors, then select + CREATE FLAVOR.

   

2. Configure the following options

   • Architecture option is pre-configured for X86 Architecture
   • Select the General Purpose type.
   • Configure a name for your flavor.
   • Assign the number of vCPU cores.
   • Set the Ram size/ memory in GiBs.

3. Assign projects for access control before creating the flavor by clicking Confirm. You can modify this step by clicking Previous : Params Setting.

   Access Control is used for assigning flavors to specific projects, which is set to Public by default.

   

4. Use the dashboard to verify the Flavor creation.

   

Edit Flavor - metadata

AI accelerator Profile - passthrough

• accel:device_profile = "rtx_a2000_1"

AI accelerator Profile - virtual GPU

• resources:VGPU = "1"

Host Aggregate Zone - available zone

• availability_zone = "gpu_zone"

  

CPU cores, threads, sockets for Windows

• hw:cpu_cores = "4"

• hw:cpu_threads = "2"

• hw:cpu_sockets = "2"