Elastic Cloud Server (ECS): End-of-life (EoL) of certain flavors for virtual machines

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Flexible Engine
Release Notes

February, 2024 

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What’s new?

The list of flavors below has reached its end of life, which means that the Flexible engine platform will cease to support versions of these flavors. We therefore encourage you to follow the recommendations below or contact the support team for assistance via your custormer space or by contracting flexengine.practice@orange.com.

Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)  

What is it

Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.

Recommendations

We recommend using the feature ‘Modify Specifications’ that enables to change the ECS’s flavor. It provides with the possibility to modify not only the flavor size inside the same series (e.g. from m2.large.8 to m2.xlarge.8) but also to migrate your existing workload from an existing series to a completely new series (e.g. from m2 to m6).

If you need help, the Flexible Engine practice team (flexengine.practice@orange.com) can help you switch to another type of flavor.

		Original flavor	vCPU	RAM (GiB)	Disk	Target flavor 2024	vCPU	RAM (GiB)	Disk
Elastic Cloud Server	General purpose	t2.micro	1	1	EVS	s6.small.1	1	1	EVS
		t2.small	1	2	EVS	s6.medium.2	1	2	EVS
		t2.large.2	2	4	EVS	s6.large.4	2	8	EVS
		t2.xlarge.2	4	8	EVS	s6.xlarge.4	4	16	EVS
		t2.2xlarge.2	8	16	EVS	s6.2xlarge.4	8	32	EVS
		s1.medium	1	4	EVS	s6.medium.4	1	4	EVS
		s1.large	2	8	EVS	s6.large.4	2	8	EVS
		s1.xlarge	4	16	EVS	s6.xlarge.4	4	16	EVS
		s1.2xlarge	8	32	EVS	s6.2xlarge.4	8	32	EVS
		s1.4xlarge	16	64	EVS	s6.4xlarge.4	16	64	EVS
		s1.8xlarge	32	128	EVS	c6.8xlarge.4	32	128	EVS
	Computing	c1.large	2	2	EVS	s6.large.2	2	4	EVS
		c1.xlarge	4	4	EVS	s6.xlarge.2	4	8	EVS
		c1.2xlarge	8	8	EVS	s6.2xlarge.2	8	16	EVS
		c1.4xlarge	16	16	EVS	s6.4xlarge.2	16	32	EVS
		c2.large	2	4	EVS	s6.large.2	2	4	EVS
		c2.xlarge	4	8	EVS	s6.xlarge.2	4	8	EVS
		c2.2xlarge	8	16	EVS	s6.2xlarge.2	8	16	EVS
	Memory Optimized	m1.large	2	16	EVS	m6.large.8	2	16	EVS
		m1.xlarge	4	32	EVS	m6.xlarge.8	4	32	EVS
		m1.2xlarge	8	64	EVS	m6.2xlarge.8	8	64	EVS
		m1.4xlarge	16	128	EVS	m6.4xlarge.8	16	128	EVS
	Computing	h1.large.2	2	4	EVS	c6.large.2	2	4	EVS
		h1.xlarge.2	4	8	EVS	c6.xlarge.2	4	8	EVS
		h1.2xlarge.2	8	16	EVS	c6.2xlarge.2	8	16	EVS
		h1.4xlarge.2	16	32	EVS	c6.4xlarge.2	16	32	EVS
		h1.8xlarge.2	32	64	EVS	c6.8xlarge.2	32	64	EVS
		h1.large.4	2	8	EVS	c6.large.4	2	8	EVS
		h1.xlarge.4	4	16	EVS	c6.xlarge.4	4	16	EVS
		h1.2xlarge.4	8	32	EVS	c6.2xlarge.4	8	32	EVS
		h1.4xlarge.4	16	64	EVS	c6.4xlarge.4	16	64	EVS
		h1.8xlarge.4	32	128	EVS	c6.8xlarge.4	32	128	EVS
	Memory Optimized	m2.large.8	2	16	EVS	m6.large.8	2	16	EVS
		m2.xlarge.8	4	32	EVS	m6.xlarge.8	4	32	EVS
		m2.2xlarge.8	8	64	EVS	m6.2xlarge.8	8	64	EVS
		m2.4xlarge.8	16	128	EVS	m6.4xlarge.8	16	128	EVS
		m2.8xlarge.8	32	256	EVS	m6.8xlarge.8	32	256	EVS

Limitations 

• Before migrating the flavour, it is important to check that the required conditions are met. We also recommend that you make a backup of the system disk using the Flexile Engine CBR service. https://docs.prod-cloud-ocb.orange-business.com/cbr/index.html .
• The ECS modify specification requires your VM to be stopped before performing the change. The status of the VM is set to “resized” during the operation and then back to “Stopped” after the modification has been performed.
• The capability to change of ECS series is proposed only when possible.

Console / API and Resource

This new ECS modify specification feature is available through the console and API.