[openstack-dev] [OpenStack-dev][Nova][Discussion]Blueprint : Auto VM Discovery in OpenStack for existing workload

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Wed Oct 30 08:20:34 UTC 2013


On 10/30/2013 03:13 AM, Alex Glikson wrote:
> Maybe a more appropriate approach could be to have a tool/script that
> does it, as a one time thing.
> For example, it could make sense in a scenario when Nova DB gets lost or
> corrupted, a new Nova controller is deployed, and the DB needs to be
> recreated. Potentially, since Nova DB is primarily a cache, this could
> be done by 'discovery' (maybe with some manual intervention) - instead
> of dealing with backup/restore of the DB, or similar approaches.

The need for this sort of thing makes more sense for traditional
datacenter virtualization, but not as much for cloud.  That's the root
of my objection.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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