<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I wasn't aware that force_hosts actually works. Someone should probably verify. The availability zone method still works in grizzly.<div><br></div><div>Vish</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 30, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Lorin Hochstein <<a href="mailto:lorin@nimbisservices.com">lorin@nimbisservices.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="">I see that in grizzly an admin can use a scheduler hint to force a VM to launch on a particular host, e.g.:</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">nova boot --image 1 --flavor 2 --key_name test --hint force_hosts=server2 my-first-server<br>
</div><div style="">(from: <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/specify-host-to-boot-instances-on.html">http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/specify-host-to-boot-instances-on.html</a>)</div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">In Folsom, an admin could do this with the availability zone flag:</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">nova boot --image <uuid> --flavor m1.tiny --key_name test --availability-zone nova:server2<br>
</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">(from: <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/specify-zone-to-boot-instances-on.html">http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/specify-zone-to-boot-instances-on.html</a>)</div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">Does the second method work in grizzly as well? If so, should we recommend one approach over the other in the docs? </div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Lorin</div><br><div dir="ltr">
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