[wallaby][nova] Host Evacuate Instances

Lee Yarwood lyarwood at redhat.com
Tue Jul 27 09:29:27 UTC 2021


On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 08:12, Ammad Syed <syedammad83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using openstack wallaby. I am testing to evacuate instances from failed host.
>
> The feature works fine. The instances on cinder backed shared storage rebuild on other host and their data is preserved. However the instances that are on local compute storage rebuild with fresh image on other host and data on root disk was lost.
>
> The question is, is it possible to evacuate all instances from failed host that are on shared storage only ?
>
> Ammad

No but that's a valid feature request IMHO, the current API is defined below:

https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/compute/?expanded=evacuate-server-evacuate-action-detail#evacuate-server-evacuate-action

Cheers,

Lee




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