This doesn't seem to be in scope, I don't understand why VMWare driver is bothering to access existing vms.
** Changed in: nova Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: nova Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364757 Title: VMWare: with a nubmer of VMs in place, compute process take a long time to get start Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): Opinion Bug description: When there are a number of VMs in VCenter(1200vm+) managed by nova, the nova compute service need to take more than 1.5 h to get start. Since the init host will try to sync all VMs power status from VCenter, with VM's nubmer increased, this will also cost a lot of time. This will severely impact the the performance for getting compute service up. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1364757/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp