[openstack-dev] [nova] should we have a stale data indication in "nova list/show"?

Day, Phil philip.day at hp.com
Wed Jun 25 18:26:52 UTC 2014


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Dague [mailto:sean at dague.net]
> Sent: 25 June 2014 11:49
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] should we have a stale data indication in
> "nova list/show"?
> 
> On 06/25/2014 04:28 AM, Belmiro Moreira wrote:
> > I like the current behavior of not changing the VM state if
> > nova-compute goes down.
> >
> > The cloud operators can identify the issue in the compute node and try
> > to fix it without users noticing. Depending in the problem I can
> > inform users if instances are affected and change the state if necessary.
> >
> > I wouldn't like is to expose any failure in nova-compute to users and
> > be contacted because VM state changed.
> 
> Agreed. Plus in the perfectly normal case of an upgrade of a compute node,
> it's expected that nova-compute is going to be down for some period of
> time, and it's 100% expected that the VMs remain up and ACTIVE over that
> period.
> 
> Setting VMs to ERROR would totally gum that up.
> 
+1 that the state shouldn't be changed.

What about if we exposed the last updated time to users and allowed them to decide if its significant or not ?


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