[openstack-dev] [nova] Reducing quota below utilisation

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Jun 17 18:26:50 UTC 2014


Makes sense to me
On 18 Jun 2014 06:18, "Tim Bell" <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

>
>
> We have some projects which are dynamically creating VMs up to their
> quota. Under some circumstances, as cloud administrators, we would like
> these projects to shrink and make room for other higher priority work.
>
>
>
> We had investigated setting the project quota below the current
> utilisation (i.e. effectively delete only, no create). This will eventually
> match the desired level of VMs as the dynamic workload leads to old VMs
> being deleted and new ones cannot be created.
>
>
>
> However, OpenStack does not allow a quota to be set to below the current
> usage.
>
>
>
> This seems a little restrictive … any thoughts from others ?
>
>
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> OpenStack-dev mailing list
> OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20140618/4be1ff9d/attachment.html>


More information about the OpenStack-dev mailing list