[Openstack-operators] Disabling VM Copy at Resizing

Juan José Pavlik Salles jjpavlik at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 17:36:53 UTC 2014


My bad, you are right. The flag just allows the actual host to be included
into the possible-hosts list.

2014-11-26 14:34 GMT-03:00 Mike Smith <mismith at overstock.com>:

>  Note that “allow_resize_to_same_host” doesn’t force it to stay on the
> same host, it only allows it to happen.  It’s still up to the scheduler as
> to where it goes.  Because we use shared storage at Overstock, we had to
> work around this by disabling all the hypervisors except the one it’s on
> before doing a resize.
>
>  We also would love to see a way to prevent copying the disk when the
> size doesn’t change.  It’s annoying when you just want to make a CPU or RAM
> change and have to wait for the disk copy.  The other downside of resizing
> is that it changes your nice, sparsely-provisioned copy-on-write disk image
> into a full size image divorced from the qcow source disk.
>
> Mike Smith
> Principal Engineer, Website Systems
> Overstock.com
>
>
>
>  On Nov 26, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  In Grizzly there's a flag "allow_resize_to_same_host=True" that at least
> shouldn't move the instance from one node to another, but it's not exactly
> what you want.
>
>
> 2014-11-26 12:30 GMT-03:00 Mathias Brito <mathiasbrito at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello people,
>>
>>  Is there a away to avoid Openstack of making a copy of the VM when
>> resizing it?
>>
>>  Mathias
>>
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