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

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Thu Oct 31 04:38:59 UTC 2013


On 31 October 2013 04:51, Mike Spreitzer <mspreitz at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> I agree with the doubts about asking Nova to adopt non-Nova VMs.  However,
> there is another use case that may make more sense.  I am told that
> sometimes a VM creation or deletion operation will fail partially, in such a
> way that the controller thinks the VM does not exist but the hypervisor is
> still reserving some resources for that VM.  If Nova had a way to check its
> facts against the hypervisors, confusion would not have to reign.

In nova.conf, set:
running_deleted_instance_action=reap

:)

Cheers,
Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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HP Converged Cloud



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