[Openstack] Compute Node shutdown how to prevent instance suspend

Chris Friesen chris.friesen at windriver.com
Thu Nov 2 18:08:15 UTC 2017


On 11/02/2017 01:03 AM, Chris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When we shut down a compute node the instances running on it get suspended. This
> generates some difficulties with some applications like RabbitMQ dont like to be
> suspended. Is there a way to change this behavior so that the running instances
> gets killed or shutdown instead?

This may be done by the libvirtd shutdown scripts rather than anything in nova.

As others have said, you should probably either shut down the VMs in an orderly 
fashion or else cold/live migrate the instances off the compute node before 
rebooting it.

Chris



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