This looks like a useful feature, need some work to do that. evacuate function based on rebuild, if we want to use snapshot images, we need pass the the snapshot reference from API layer ,and expose the interface from python-novaclient. Correct me if I am wrong :)
2014-02-21 13:01 GMT+08:00 Sangeeta Singh <sin...@yahoo-inc.com>: > Hi, > > At my organization we do not use a shared storage for VM disks but need > to evacuate VMs from a HV that is down or having problems to another HV. > The evacuate command only allows the evacuated VM to have the base image. > What I am interested in is to create a snapshot of the VM on the down HV > and then be able to use the evacuate command by specifying the snapshot for > the image. > > Has anyone had such a use case? Is there a command that uses snapshots > in this way to recreate VM on a new HV. > > Thanks for the pointers. > > Sangeeta > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- ChangBo Guo(gcb)
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