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are discussed in the section on setting up networking for users.
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+ Changing the Default System Offering for System VMs
+ You can manually change the system offering for a particular System VM. Additionally, as a
+ &PRODUCT; administrator, you can also change the default system offering used for System
+ VMs.
+
+
+ Create a new system offering.
+ For more information, see
+ Creating a New System Service Offering.
+
+
+ Back up the database:
+ mysqldump -u root -p cloud | bzip2 > cloud_backup.sql.bz2
+
+
+ Open an MySQL prompt:
+ mysql -u cloud -p cloud
+
+
+ Run the following queries on the cloud database.
+
+
+ In the disk_offering table, identify the original default offering and the new
+ offering you want to use by default.
+ Take a note of the ID of the new offering.
+ select id,name,unique_name,type from disk_offering;
+
+
+ For the original default offering, set the value of unique_name to NULL.
+ # update disk_offering set unique_name = NULL where id = 10;
+ Ensure that you use the correct value for the ID.
+
+
+ For the new offering that you want to use by default, set the value of unique_name
+ as follows:
+ For the default Console Proxy VM (CPVM) offering,set unique_name to
+ 'Cloud.com-ConsoleProxy'. For the default Secondary Storage VM (SSVM) offering, set
+ unique_name to 'Cloud.com-SecondaryStorage'. For example:
+ update disk_offering set unique_name = 'Cloud.com-ConsoleProxy' where id = 16;
+
+
+
+
+ Restart &PRODUCT; Management Server. Restarting is required because the default
+ offerings are loaded into the memory at startup.
+ service cloud-management restart
+
+
+ Destroy the existing CPVM or SSVM offerings and wait for them to be recreated. The new
+ CPVM or SSVM are configured with the new offering.
+
+
+