Sorry to hijack such an old thread. Looking into these features, I was just wondering if it was possible to:

  1) Disable the support for pause / suspend altogether and not allow anyone to place instances in such states?

you can use policy to disable suspending vms via the api

Good point, thanks.

  2) Change the storage location of the saved guest RAM to a shared storage to allow the instance to be migrated while being suspended/paused. As far as I can see currently this data is saved on the host disk.

you can mount the path where things get saved at where ever you want (I think it’s somewhere inside /var/lib/nova/instances)

That's true, but this would require some multi-mountable shared storage like CephFS or some NFS to remove the dependency from a single node.
It's not like Nova would store this data as e.g. a RBD image in Ceph via some config option, right?

Regards

Christian