[openstack-dev] Availability Zones

Chris Behrens cbehrens at codestud.com
Thu Jan 17 21:10:54 UTC 2013


Patches welcomed!


On Jan 17, 2013, at 11:01 AM, George Reese <george.reese at imaginary.com> wrote:

> I appreciate the response, even though it gives me a sad face.
> 
> I know I am responding to you Phil, but the rest here is directed at the community, not you…
> 
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> Here's how the conversation goes with a Dasein Cloud contributor:
> 
> Dev: I want to be able to provision volumes in an availability zone
> 
> Me: What version of OpenStack are you using? I've not encountered AZ support in the wild.
> 
> Dev: Essex. Here's the JSON showing the availability zone for my server.
> 
> Me: Essex? Really? Let me see how I can query the AZs. Because I need a list of AZs proper so I can give them to you so you can provision a volume in the right AZ.
> 
> Dev: OK
> 
> Then I bring up this issue to the group and it appears you can't get there from here (pretend I said that in a Maine accent).
> 
> Err, uh… 
> -> Features without APIs. 
> -> Configurable items without a way for external tools to know about it. 
> -> I'm still talking about these issues as we are rolling towards Grizzly
> Not good.
> 
> -George
> 
> On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:17 PM, "Day, Phil" <philip.day at hp.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi George
>>  
>> a)      in what circumstances availability zones show up in an OpenStack deployment
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>> Only if you have specifically configures them.  Until recently this was via the nova.conf file on each compute host.    Now you use the API to create an aggregate as an availability zone and add hosts to it.
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>> b) how do I list them via API?
>>  
>> I think that currently only the EC2 APi has this capability – but there is a blueprint to add something similar to the OSAPI.    If your using the newer aggregate model then you can list the aggregates via the API.
>>  
>> Hope that helps,
>> Phil
>>  
>> From: George Reese [mailto:george.reese at imaginary.com] 
>> Sent: 17 January 2013 16:15
>> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>> Subject: [openstack-dev] Availability Zones
>>  
>> Can anyone tell me a) in what circumstances availability zones show up in an OpenStack deployment and b) how do I list them via API?
>>  
>> OB: compat gripe
>>  
>> -George
>>  
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