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On Wed, May 11, 2016, at 11:10 AM, David Medberry wrote:
> Kekane,
>
> Hi,
>
> This setting, how does it display in the "nova show $UUID" or in the
> "openstack server show $UUID"? Ie, I don't want a VM showing ERROR
> state if the VM itself is not in error. A failed migration doesn't
> leave the VM down (well, not always) but error generally implies it is
> down. If this is more of an internal status, then +1. I'll look at the
> code shortly but wanted to get a reply off first.
 
To clarify, this is only about the state of a migration not an instance.
If as an admin you list or show your migrations this would affect how
that is displayed. Nothing about the instance, or how it's displayed,
will change.
 
 
>
> ALSO: It would have been very very helpful to see "live-migration" in
> the subject line.
>
>
> -d
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Kekane, Abhishek
> <Abhishek.Kekane at nttdata.com> wrote:
>> Hi Operators,____
>> __ __
>> Could you please provide your opinion on below mail. I need to
>> discuss this in coming nova meeting (12 May, 2016).____
>> __ __
>> Thank you,____
>> __ __
>> Abhishek Kekane____
>> __ __
>> *From:* Kekane, Abhishek [mailto:Abhishek.Kekane at nttdata.com] *Sent:*
>> Monday, May 09, 2016 7:22 AM *To:* openstack-
>> operators at lists.openstack.org *Subject:* [Openstack-operators] [Nova]
>> Significance of Error Vs Failed status____
>> __ __
>> Hi All,____
>> In Liberty release, we had upstream [1] a security fix to cleanup
>> orphaned instance files from compute nodes for resize operation. To
>> fix this security issue, a new periodic task
>> '_cleanup_incomplete_migrations’ was introduced that runs on each
>> compute node which queries for deleted instances and migration status
>> in “error” status. If there are any such instances, then it simply
>> cleanup instance files on that particular compute node.____
>> Similar issue is reported in LP bug [2] for Live-migration operation
>> and we would like to use the same periodic task to fix this problem.
>> But in case of live migration, the migration status is set to
>> “failed” instead of “error” status if migration fails for any reason.
>> This change was introduced in patch [3] when migration object support
>> was added for live migration. Due to this inconsistency, the periodic
>> task will not pickup instances to cleanup orphaned instance files. To
>> fix this problem, we simply want to set the migration status to
>> “error” in patch [4] same as done for resize operation to bring
>> consistency to the code.____
>> We have discussed about this issue in the nova meeting [5] and
>> decided that to the client, migration status 'error' vs. 'failed'
>> should be considered the same thing, it's a failure. From operators
>> point of view, is there any significance of setting migration status
>> to 'error' or 'failed', if yes what is it and what impact it will
>> have if migration status is changed from 'failed' to 'error'. Please
>> provide your opinions on the same.____
>>  ____
>> [1]https://review.openstack.org/#/c/219299____
>> [2] : https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1470420____
>> [3]https://review.openstack.org/#/c/183331____
>> [4]https://review.openstack.org/#/c/215483____
>> [5]http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-meeting/%23openstack-meeting.2016-05-05.log.html#t2016-05-05T14:40:51____
>> Thank You,
>>
>>  Abhishek____
>>
>>
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