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On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Sylvain Bauza <sbauza at redhat.com> 
wrote:
>> 
> 
> After considering the whole approach, discussing with a couple of 
> folks over IRC, here is what I feel the best approach for a seamless 
> upgrade :
>  - VGPU inventory will be kept on root RP (for the first type) in 
> Queens so that a compute service upgrade won't impact the DB
>  - during Queens, operators can run a DB online migration script 
> (like the ones we currently have in 
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/c2f42b0/nova/cmd/manage.py#L375) 
> that will create a new resource provider for the first type and move 
> the inventory and allocations to it.
>  - it's the responsibility of the virt driver code to check whether a 
> child RP with its name being the first type name already exists to 
> know whether to update the inventory against the root RP or the child 
> RP.
> 
> Does it work for folks ?

+1 works for me
gibi

> PS : we already have the plumbing in place in nova-manage and we're 
> still managing full Nova resources. I know we plan to move Placement 
> out of the nova tree, but for the Rocky timeframe, I feel we can 
> consider nova-manage as the best and quickiest approach for the data 
> upgrade.
> 
> -Sylvain
> 
>