5.50. nova flavor-create

usage: nova flavor-create [--ephemeral <ephemeral>] [--swap <swap>]
                          [--rxtx-factor <factor>] [--is-public <is-public>]
                          <name> <id> <ram> <disk> <vcpus>

Create a new flavor.

Positional arguments

<name>: Unique name of the new flavor.
<id>: Unique ID of the new flavor. Specifying 'auto' will
generated a UUID for the ID.
<ram>: Memory size in MB.
<disk>: Disk size in GB.
<vcpus>: Number of vcpus

Optional arguments

--ephemeral <ephemeral>: Ephemeral space size in GB (default 0).
--swap <swap>: Swap space size in MB (default 0).
--rxtx-factor <factor>: RX/TX factor (default 1).
--is-public <is-public>: Make flavor accessible to the public (default
true).

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