Flavor Command

The manual page of the flavor command can be found at: Flavor

Flavors define the compute, memory, and storage capacity of nova computing instances. To put it simply, a flavor is an available hardware configuration for a server. It defines the size of a virtual server that can be launched

Refresh

The refresh command would update the local database with the latest flavors. To refresh flavors of a cloud, do the following:

flavor refresh --cloud=kilo

Refresh flavor for cloud kilo. ok

List

To list the set of flavors of a cloud, do the following:

flavor list --cloud=kilo

+----+----------------+--------+-------+----------+-------+------+--------+-------------+-----------------+------+-------+------+
| Id | Name           | User   | RAM   | Disabled | vCPUs | Swap | Access | rxtx_factor | os_flv_ext_data | Disk | Cloud | UUID |
+----+----------------+--------+-------+----------+-------+------+--------+-------------+-----------------+------+-------+------+
| 1  | m1.tiny        | albert | 512   | 0        | 1     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 0               | 0    | kilo  | 1    |
| 5  | m1.xlarge      | albert | 16384 | 0        | 8     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 0               | 160  | kilo  | 5    |
| 9  | m1.xlarge_e200 | albert | 16384 | 0        | 8     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 200             | 160  | kilo  | 9    |
| 2  | m1.small       | albert | 2048  | 0        | 1     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 0               | 20   | kilo  | 2    |
| 6  | m1.small_e30   | albert | 2048  | 0        | 1     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 30              | 20   | kilo  | 6    |
| 3  | m1.medium      | albert | 4096  | 0        | 2     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 0               | 40   | kilo  | 3    |
| 7  | m1.medium_e60  | albert | 4096  | 0        | 2     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 60              | 40   | kilo  | 7    |
| 4  | m1.large       | albert | 8192  | 0        | 4     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 0               | 80   | kilo  | 4    |
| 8  | m1.large_e100  | albert | 8192  | 0        | 4     |      | 1      | 1.0         | 100             | 80   | kilo  | 8    |
+----+----------------+--------+-------+----------+-------+------+--------+-------------+-----------------+------+-------+------+

List Details

To list the details of a flavor, give in the id, uuid or name of the flavor. In case latest information is needed, the –refresh option can be used which would update the local database:

flavor list 1 --cloud=kilo

+-----------------+---------------------+
| Attribute       | Value               |
+-----------------+---------------------+
| id              | 1                   |
| swap            |                     |
| os_flv_disabled | 0                   |
| os_flv_ext_data | 0                   |
| disk            | 0                   |
| os_flavor_acces | 1                   |
| vcpus           | 1                   |
| uuid            | 1                   |
| rxtx_factor     | 1.0                 |
| created_at      | 2015-11-11 13:38:31 |
| updated_at      | 2015-11-11 13:38:31 |
| ram             | 512                 |
| user            | albert              |
| kind            | flavor              |
| cloud           | kilo                |
| name            | m1.tiny             |
| label           | m1.tiny             |
| project         | undefined           |
+-----------------+---------------------+