{"id":2548,"date":"2012-05-15T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T19:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:05:20","slug":"here-is-what-happens-inside-nova-when-you-provision-a-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/here-is-what-happens-inside-nova-when-you-provision-a-vm\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is what happens inside Nova when you provision a VM"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/training_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2549 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/training_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>\n<p class=\"lead\">At the Essex conference summit this past month, we presented a session on \u00a0OpenStack Essex architecture. As a part of that workshop we visually demonstrated the request flow for provisioning a VM and went over Essex arthicture. There was a lot of interest in this material; it&#8217;s now posted in Slideshare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recap of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/mirantis\/openstack-cloud-request-flow\">the request flow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Essex <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/mirantis\/2-day-bootcamp-for-openstackcloud-training-by-mirantis-preview\">architecture survey\/overview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, we&#8217;ve packaged up the architecture survey\/overview as part of our\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mirantisopenstack2-daybootcamp.eventbrite.com\/\">2-day Bootcamp for OpenStack<\/a><\/span>. The next session\u00a0is scheduled 14-15 June. This time around will carry out the training at the Santa Clara CA offices of our friends at Nexenta. Last course was delivered at our Mountain View office right before the OpenStack summit in April to a sold out crowd. You can find more information about the course at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirantis.com\/training\">www.mirantis.com\/training<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Essex conference summit this past month, we presented a session on \u00a0OpenStack Essex architecture. As a part of that workshop we visually demonstrated the request flow for provisioning a VM and went over Essex arthicture. 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