How to use local storage for CloudStack VMs

When CloudStack is deploying a VM (including guest VMs and system VMs), by default, the VM is set to use NFS-mounted primary storage as their root partition. The NFS-mounted primary storage is shared among all compute nodes located in the same CloudStack cluster. One of the reasons for using shared primary storage is VM migration. It is easy to migrate a VM from one compute node to another if the VM is backed by the same shared primary storage. If you don't need to migrate VMs, and compute nodes have plenty of local storage, you can configure CloudStack such that deployed VMs use compute node's local storage.Read more »