Open Stack

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.

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Russell Bryant