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Creating an Image Flavor for vSRX with the Nova CLI

To create an image flavor for vSRX with the nova CLI command:

Use the nova flavor-create command on the OpenStack compute node that will host the vSRX VM. See Table 1 for a list of mandatory parameters.

Note: See the official OpenStack documentation for a complete description of available options for the nova flavor-create command.

Table 1: nova flavor-create Command

Command Option	Description
--is-public true	Set the flavor as publicly available.
flavor_name	Name the vSRX flavor.
auto	Select auto to automatically assign the flavor ID.
ram_megabytes	Allocate RAM for the VM, in megabytes.
disk_gigabytes	Specify disk storage size for the VM.
vcpus	Allocate the number of vCPUs for the vSRX VM.

Note: Use nova help flavor-create for more details on the command options.

The following example creates a vSRX flavor with 4096 MB RAM, 2 vCPUs, and disk storage up to 16 GB:

$ nova flavor-create  --is-public true vsrx_flavor
auto 4096 16 2