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Well, I guess my real question next is, what happens when a VM is running
on a compute node and that node simply fails for whatever reason?  Does
OpenStack have any way to detect a compute node failure, and attempt to
migrate its VMs to another node?  I realize that the real VM and the
migrated VM may be out of sync with each other, but I'm assuming that a
relatively recent version of the VM is still present on the distributed
file system to facilitate migration.

Obviously, regular backups would be required for a real disaster recovery,
but the VMs I'm talking about won't be changing much, and being a few
minutes out of sync won't be a problem.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> OpenStack does not have anything like this yet. Anton Beloglazov has
> created a blueprint from some research work he's done that would provide
> such a feature:
>
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/dynamic-consolidation-of-virtual-machines
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Paul Walton <paul.d.walton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a quick question about live migration of VMs.  I can see how to do
>> this manually from the command line, i.e. if I want to move a VM from one
>> compute node to another myself, but I was wondering if there is a way to
>> have OpenStack do this automatically for me to balance the load across all
>> the compute nodes dynamically?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
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>> Paul Walton
>>
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>> College of Engineering
>> CSCE Technical Support Team
>> J.B. Hunt Building, Room 440
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