1. Restore from snapshot. When we make snapshot through Openstack, it is actually sisclone on NetApp. The problem is that when we want to restore instance from snapshot, we should kill the old instance and create the new on using snapshot; and floating ip is lost. How can we restore instance from snapshot w/o loosing ip? By the way no problem with Lefthand - just tell LH restore from snapshot using LH GUI and actually that is it.
2. Then we create new instance, it is actually LUN on backend FlexVol, and it is NOT thin provisioned. I is necessary to change LUN properties using System Manager. Could we change something in Openstack in order new VMs would be thin provisioning from the beginning?
3. Snapshots are actually clones. Could we somehow delete original VM w/o deletiing snapshots? In System Manager on FAS we can, but on Openstack we have a message that we can't delete VM w/o deleting snaphots first.