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[Jorge Williams <jorge.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 23, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:

> On May 23, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Jorge Williams wrote:
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>> If we make the instance ID a unique ID -- which we probably should.   Why not also treat it as a reservation id and generate/assign it up front?
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> 	Because that precludes the 1:M relationship of a reservation to created instances. 
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> 	If I request 100 instances, they are all created with unique IDs, but with a single reservation ID. 
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I don't see how that peculates anything.  Treat the instance id as the reservation id on single instance creations -- have a separate reservation id when launching multiple instances.  End of the day even if you have the capability to launch multiple instances at once you should be able to poll a specific instance for changes.  

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> -- Ed Leafe
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