Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Cells conversation starter

2014-10-22 Thread Dheeraj Gupta
Thanks Andrew for this (very) exhaustive list. As you have pointed out, for all the missing features (I think flavors can also be a part of that list) the community needs to decide where the info lives primarily (API or compute cells) and how it is propagated (Synced, sent with the request, asked

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][cells] Flavors and cells

2014-09-19 Thread Dheeraj Gupta
rations (including build_instances) work on the Instance objects. By passing the "instance_type" dict to subsequent compute API methods, we can avoid a second redundant DB lookup. Since in a cell setup that is the step that generates the FlavorNotFound exception, we can remove the bug. Regards,

[openstack-dev] [nova][cells] Flavors and cells

2014-09-10 Thread Dheeraj Gupta
Hi, we are working on bug-1211011 (Flavors created in parent cell are not propagated to the child cell).. we need a few pointers from the community (and people working with cells). The problem is that if the "instance_type" tables are not in sync in all cells we can spawn a different flavor than t

[openstack-dev] Confused about cell hierarchy

2014-09-10 Thread Dheeraj Gupta
Hi, I am a little confused about the cell hierarchy in openstack. The blueprint and the docs state that cells can be arranged in a tree-structure and that there may be multiple parents for a child. Does this mean that there can be multiple levels of cells in a setup or there can be multiple parent