[Openstack] Live Migration of VMs without shared storage

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Thu Feb 26 14:45:54 UTC 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:07 AM, somshekar kadam <som_kadam at yahoo.co.in>
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> First of all thanks for quick reply.
> Documentation does not mention much about
> *Volume-backed live migration. *
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> *Is it tested, I mean supported and working. *
> *I will try *
> *Block live migration as no storage is required. *
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> Regards
> Neelu
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>   On Thursday, 26 February 2015 7:13 PM, Robert van Leeuwen <
> Robert.vanLeeuwen at spilgames.com> wrote:
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> > Is the Live Migration of VMs even without shared storage supported in
> Openstack now.
> > If yes is there any document for the same.
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> Wel, depends on what you call "supported".
> Yes, it is possible.
> Will it always work? Probably not until you look at the bugs below.
> They have been fixed recently but they might not be merged with the
> version you are running:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1270825
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1082414
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> There might be more issues but I hit the ones mentioned above.
> Have a look at the docs to configure it:
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> http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/section_configuring-compute-migrations.html
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> Cheers,
> Robert van Leeuwen
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It's dated and getting the patches backported has proven to take forever,
but I did a write up and testing on this a while back [1].  Should still be
accurate.

Thanks,
John

[1]:
https://griffithscorner.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/openstack-live-migration-with-cinder-backed-instances/
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