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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Matt Riedemann
<mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2/19/2014 4:05 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>>
>> The os-hosts OS API extension [1] showed up before I was working on the
>> project and I see that only the VMware and XenAPI drivers implement it,
>> but was wondering why the libvirt driver doesn't - either no one wants
>> it, or there is some technical reason behind not implementing it for
>> that driver?
>>

If  I remember correctly maintenance mode is a special thing in Xen.


>> [1]
>>
>> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-compute/2/content/PUT_os-hosts-v2_updateHost_v2__tenant_id__os-hosts__host_name__ext-os-hosts.html
>>
>>
>
> By the way, am I missing something when I think that this extension is
> already covered if you're:
>
> 1. Looking to get the node out of the scheduling loop, you can just disable
> it with os-services/disable?
>
> 2. Looking to evacuate instances off a failed host (or one that's in
> "maintenance mode"), just use the evacuate server action.

I don't think your missing anything.

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> Thanks,
>
> Matt Riedemann
>
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