[Openstack] usability of putting host in maintenance mode in Nova

2013-04-20 Thread Alex Glikson
Was great to see many stackers at the summit! Following-up on one of the design discussions, the consensus seemed to be that the operation which puts a host in maintenance mode should probably only disable further provisioning requests to that host, while the orchestration of migrating the indivi

Re: [Openstack] usability of putting host in maintenance mode in Nova

2013-04-20 Thread Endre Karlson
I would say that having worked in a enterprise environment before sometimes we would get calls from a tech wanting to do it asap or you just have the need to do it "now". It would be very nice to have a option to the command like "nova maintenance --evacuate " or something similar which would basic