The manual page of the flavor command can be found at: Flavor
Flavors define the compute, memory, and storage capacity of nova computing instances. To put it simply, a flavor is an available hardware configuration for a server. It defines the size of a virtual server that can be launched
The refresh command would update the local database with the latest flavors. To refresh flavors of a cloud, do the following:
.. prompt:: bash, cm> flavor refresh --cloud=kilo
Refresh flavor for cloud kilo. ok
To list the set of flavors of a cloud, do the following:
.. prompt:: bash, cm> flavor list --cloud=kilo
+----+----------------+--------+-------+----------+-------+------+--------+-------------+-----------------+------+-------+------+ | Id | Name | User | RAM | Disabled | vCPUs | Swap | Access | rxtx_factor | os_flv_ext_data | Disk | Cloud | UUID | +----+----------------+--------+-------+----------+-------+------+--------+-------------+-----------------+------+-------+------+ | 1 | m1.tiny | albert | 512 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | kilo | 1 | | 5 | m1.xlarge | albert | 16384 | 0 | 8 | | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 160 | kilo | 5 | | 9 | m1.xlarge_e200 | albert | 16384 | 0 | 8 | | 1 | 1.0 | 200 | 160 | kilo | 9 | | 2 | m1.small | albert | 2048 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 20 | kilo | 2 | | 6 | m1.small_e30 | albert | 2048 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1.0 | 30 | 20 | kilo | 6 | | 3 | m1.medium | albert | 4096 | 0 | 2 | | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 40 | kilo | 3 | | 7 | m1.medium_e60 | albert | 4096 | 0 | 2 | | 1 | 1.0 | 60 | 40 | kilo | 7 | | 4 | m1.large | albert | 8192 | 0 | 4 | | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 80 | kilo | 4 | | 8 | m1.large_e100 | albert | 8192 | 0 | 4 | | 1 | 1.0 | 100 | 80 | kilo | 8 | +----+----------------+--------+-------+----------+-------+------+--------+-------------+-----------------+------+-------+------+
To list the details of a flavor, give in the id, uuid or name of the flavor. In case latest information is needed, the --refresh option can be used which would update the local database:
.. prompt:: bash, cm> flavor list 1 --cloud=kilo
+-----------------+---------------------+ | Attribute | Value | +-----------------+---------------------+ | id | 1 | | swap | | | os_flv_disabled | 0 | | os_flv_ext_data | 0 | | disk | 0 | | os_flavor_acces | 1 | | vcpus | 1 | | uuid | 1 | | rxtx_factor | 1.0 | | created_at | 2015-11-11 13:38:31 | | updated_at | 2015-11-11 13:38:31 | | ram | 512 | | user | albert | | kind | flavor | | cloud | kilo | | name | m1.tiny | | label | m1.tiny | | project | undefined | +-----------------+---------------------+