Exactly, I believe getting new as well as existing workload in any cloud environment is always a plus and I agree this will mostly be a tool/script to be used as per requirement.
Best Regards, Swapnil Kulkarni swapnilkulkarni2...@gmail.com +91-87960 10622(c) http://in.linkedin.com/in/coolsvap On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Alex Glikson <glik...@il.ibm.com> wrote: > Maybe a more appropriate approach could be to have a tool/script that does > it, as a one time thing. > For example, it could make sense in a scenario when Nova DB gets lost or > corrupted, a new Nova controller is deployed, and the DB needs to be > recreated. Potentially, since Nova DB is primarily a cache, this could be > done by 'discovery' (maybe with some manual intervention) - instead of > dealing with backup/restore of the DB, or similar approaches. > > Regards, > Alex > > > > > From: Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com> > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org, > Date: 30/10/2013 08:52 AM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] > [OpenStack-dev][Nova][Discussion]Blueprint : Auto VM Discovery in OpenStack > for existing workload > ------------------------------ > > > > On 10/30/2013 02:36 AM, Swapnil Kulkarni wrote: > > I had a discussion with russellb regarding this for yesterday, I would > > like to discuss this with the team regarding the blueprint mentioned in > > subject. > > > > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/auto-vm-discovery-on-hypervisor > > > > Description: Organizations opting to use openstack can have varied > > amount of workload that they would like to be available directly with > > the use of some discovery workflows. One common usage of this would be > > exising virtual machines present on the hypervisors. If this instances > > can be disovered by the compute agent during discovery, it would help to > > use Openstack to manage the existing workload directly. Auto VM > > Discovery will enable this functionality initially for KVM guests, the > > widely used hypervisor configuration in OpenStack deployments and > > enhance it further for other hypervisors. > > I feel that Nova managing VMs that it didn't create is not an > appropriate use case to support. > > -- > Russell Bryant > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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