Question - What happens to the already existing VMs with entries in the DB? Do we keep it NULL?
Amogh On 11/15/14 8:41 AM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: >Any idea on how many tables would be impacted by a decision for us to add >the user ID directly into the tables (as opposed to relying on events)? > >Since we already have a domain_id and an account_id in certain tables, it >might be better from a consistency standpoint to just add user_id to those >tables, as well (I know it is a bit de-normalized that way, but we already >have that situation with having both domain_id and account_id in these >tables). > >On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> >wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> > On 15-Nov-2014, at 2:27 pm, Rajani Karuturi <raj...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > I agree with Nitin. It will be cleaner to use the events table. Since >> > cloudstack is concerned only about account, it makes sense to have >>only >> > that information which is the owner field(and remove account_id, >> > domain_id). >> > I think, there is no auto purging or archival of events. Its the >>operator >> > who decides to delete the events. He can decide what he wants to >> > retain/delete. >> >> I don¹t think it¹s a pragmatic solution, let me explain ‹ In the past >>few >> months, apart from ACS development I¹ve been heavily involved in working >> and supporting large production grade clouds and my ops experience is >>that >> there are usually couple of sysadmins (usually working in shifts) and we >> cannot really rely on the assumption that events are only cleared by one >> operator or that there is culture of knowledge sharing of all the >>actions. >> If one of the sysadmins (during their shift) removes some events, others >> won¹t know. The events feature is perhaps good for event-driven >>consumption >> such as via AMQP/RabbitMQ and automated monitoring systems but perhaps >>not >> best suited for humans all the time (yet). >> >> The other use case is of a large org who are consumer of a (rented) >> CloudStack cloud among other tenants, the whole team of an org shares >>the >> account but has various users in it. For them it can be useful to list >>vms >> and other resources by userid within their account. Since, they may not >>be >> admin (renting cloud?) the pragmatic solution would be to have such >> metadata somewhere easily slice-able and dice-able using APIs. >> >> Regards, >> Rohit Yadav >> Software Architect, ShapeBlue >> M. +91 88 262 30892 | rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com >> Blog: bhaisaab.org | Twitter: @_bhaisaab >> >> Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related >>services >> >> IaaS Cloud Design & Build< >> http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> >> CSForge rapid IaaS deployment framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> >> CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> >> CloudStack Software Engineering< >> http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-software-engineering/> >> CloudStack Infrastructure Support< >> http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> >> CloudStack Bootcamp Training Courses< >> http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> >> >> This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are >>intended >> solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views >>or >> opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily >> represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not >>the >> intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based >> upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the >>sender >> if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is >>a >> company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP >>is a >> company incorporated in India and is operated under license from Shape >>Blue >> Ltd. Shape Blue Brasil Consultoria Ltda is a company incorporated in >>Brasil >> and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue SA Pty Ltd >>is >> a company registered by The Republic of South Africa and is traded under >> license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark. >> > > > >-- >*Mike Tutkowski* >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >o: 303.746.7302 >Advancing the way the world uses the cloud ><http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>*�*
