Re: [openstack-dev] OPENSTACK with CEPH storage backend cant down size an instance

2015-07-26 Thread Joshua Harlow
Monty Taylor wrote: On 07/24/2015 12:47 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from James Galvin's message of 2015-07-24 09:08:36 -0700: Hi All I am having some trouble with down sizing an instance, I can resize the instance from say small flavour to medium flavour but when trying to resize the ins

Re: [openstack-dev] OPENSTACK with CEPH storage backend cant down size an instance

2015-07-26 Thread Adam Lawson
Agreed on resizing. Perhaps create a snapshot of the old VM (assuming !ephemeral storage), and boot a new VM with a smaller disk size from the snapshot. Future reference you can leverage SAN-specific tools to save unused disk such as thin provisioning and/or the vendor's dedup capabilities. *A

Re: [openstack-dev] OPENSTACK with CEPH storage backend cant down size an instance

2015-07-24 Thread Monty Taylor
On 07/24/2015 12:47 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from James Galvin's message of 2015-07-24 09:08:36 -0700: >> Hi All >> >> I am having some trouble with down sizing an instance, >> >> I can resize the instance from say small flavour to medium flavour but when >> trying to resize the instance

Re: [openstack-dev] OPENSTACK with CEPH storage backend cant down size an instance

2015-07-24 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from James Galvin's message of 2015-07-24 09:08:36 -0700: > Hi All > > I am having some trouble with down sizing an instance, > > I can resize the instance from say small flavour to medium flavour but when > trying to resize the instance back from medium to small > > I get the followin

Re: [openstack-dev] OPENSTACK with CEPH storage backend cant down size an instance

2015-07-24 Thread Jon Bernard
* James Galvin wrote: > Hi All > > I am having some trouble with down sizing an instance, > > I can resize the instance from say small flavour to medium flavour but > when trying to resize the instance back from medium to small > > I get the following : > > Error: Failed to perform requested o

[openstack-dev] OPENSTACK with CEPH storage backend cant down size an instance

2015-07-24 Thread James Galvin
Hi All I am having some trouble with down sizing an instance, I can resize the instance from say small flavour to medium flavour but when trying to resize the instance back from medium to small I get the following : Error: Failed to perform requested operation on instance "jg-10", the instance