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Hi Jay,

There are indeed some China customers want this feature because before they
do some operations, they want to check the action plan, such as where the
VM will be migrated or created, they want to use some interactive mode do
some operations to make sure no errors.

Thanks.


2014-07-22 10:23 GMT+08:00 Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>:

> On 07/21/2014 07:45 PM, Jay Lau wrote:
>
>> There is one requirement that some customers want to get the possible
>> host list when create/rebuild/migrate/evacuate VM so as to create a
>> resource plan for those operations, but currently select_destination is
>> not a REST API, is it possible that we promote this API to be a REST API?
>>
>
> Which "customers" want to get the possible host list?
>
> /me imagines someone asking Amazon for a REST API that returned all the
> possible servers that might be picked for placement... and what answer
> Amazon might give to the request.
>
> If by "customer", you are referring to something like IBM Smart Cloud
> Orchestrator, then I don't really see the point of supporting something
> like this. Such a customer would only need to "create a resource plan for
> those operations" if it was wholly supplanting large pieces of OpenStack
> infrastructure, including parts of Nova and much of Heat.
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
>
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-- 
Thanks,

Jay
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