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> Maybe seperate quotas for active vs suspended?  ​

That sounds overly complicated.  At the risk of demonstrating some 
ignroance on my part, w have to keep in mind it isn't just quota for the 
tenant, but actual available resource on the compute node yes?  If 
suspended instances are going to be dropped from the tenant's quota, one 
would, presumably, reasonably argue that the compute node on which that 
instance was scheduled should then be marked as having more room, (or 
there is the question of whether the tenant would be able to launch 
anything more in the first place) which then means having to check not 
only the tenant's quota but also the actual available capacity on the 
compute node.

For instances which do not need to be up all that often, but seem to 
need a persistent "state," which seems to be what is driving this 
desire, I would think that volumes would be the better/less complicated 
way to go.  Boot from and store in Cinder volumes and then they can come 
and go as you will.

rick jones