[Openstack] nova: instance states and commands
Marco CONSONNI
mcocmo62 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 10:46:10 UTC 2012
Hello,
I’m playing with nova CLI and I found that there are several commands for
managing the current state of instances running in the cloud.
These are the states I found:
- · initial
- · build
- · active
- · shutoff
- · suspended
- · rescue
- · paused
- · reboot
And these are the nova commands for changing the current state:
- · boot
- · pause
- · reboot
- · rescue
- · resume
- · start
- · stop
- · suspend
- · unpause
- · unrescue
QUESTION: Is there any explanation on the meaning of the states? In
particular, what’s the difference between SUSPENDED, PAUSED and RESCUE?
Another command changes the status and, from what I found, it always
changes that to ERROR.
The command is “nova reset-state”.
QUESTION: what’s the semantics of this command?
Then, I found some other commands that sound like status management command
but, actually they are not:
- · Lock
- · Unlock
QUESTION: What’s the meaning of these?
*Marco.*
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