<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Matt Riedemann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mriedemos@gmail.com" target="_blank">mriedemos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The GET /servers/{server_id}/migration<wbr>s API only lists in-progress live migrations. This is an artifact of when it was originally introduced as the os-migrations API which was tightly coupled with the API operation to cancel a live migration.<br>
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There is a spec [1] which is now approved which proposes to expand that to also return other types of in-progress migrations, like cold migrations, resizes and evacuations.<br>
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What I don't like about the proposal is that it still filters out completed migrations from being returned. I never liked the original design where only in-progress live migrations would be returned. I understand why it was done that way, as a convenience for using those results to then cancel a live migration, but seriously that's something that can be filtered out properly.<br>
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So what I'd propose is that in a new microversion, we'd return all migration records for a server, regardless of status. We could provide a status filter query parameter if desired to just see in-progress migrations, or completed migrations, etc. And the live migration cancel action API would still validate that the requested migration to cancel is indeed in progress first, else it's a 400 error.<br>
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The actual migration entries in the response are quite detailed, so if that's a problem, we could change listing to just show some short info (id, status, source and target host), and then leave the actual details for the show API.<br>
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What do operators think about this? Is this used at all? Would you like to get all migrations and not just in-progress migrations, with the ability to filter as necessary?<br>
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[1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/407237/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#<wbr>/c/407237/</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div><br></div><div>I would love to see this. Our support team frequently has to figure out the "history" of a VM and today they have to use tool that relies on logs and/or the DB to figure out where a VM used to be and when it was moved. It would wonderful if that whole tool can just be replaced with a single call to the nova API to return a full history.</div></div></div></div>