[openstack-dev] [OpenStack-dev][Nova][Discussion]Blueprint : Auto VM Discovery in OpenStack for existing workload

Swapnil Kulkarni swapnilkulkarni2608 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 07:10:33 UTC 2013


I agree, I was wondering having additional support for such a feature would
definitely have value addition for adoption of OpenStack. It can be
developed as an optional functionality during host addition which users can
opt on case-to-case basis.

Best Regards,
Swapnil


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 10/30/2013 02:36 AM, Swapnil Kulkarni wrote:
> > I had a discussion with russellb regarding this for yesterday, I would
> > like to discuss this with the team regarding the blueprint mentioned in
> > subject.
> >
> >
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/auto-vm-discovery-on-hypervisor
> >
> > Description: Organizations opting to use openstack can have varied
> > amount of workload that they would like to be available directly with
> > the use of some discovery workflows. One common usage of this would be
> > exising virtual machines present on the hypervisors. If this instances
> > can be disovered by the compute agent during discovery, it would help to
> > use Openstack to manage the existing workload directly. Auto VM
> > Discovery will enable this functionality initially for KVM guests, the
> > widely used hypervisor configuration in OpenStack deployments and
> > enhance it further for other hypervisors.
>
> I feel that Nova managing VMs that it didn't create is not an
> appropriate use case to support.
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
>
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