Suggest adding a feature request into Jira to add a 'force expunge' argument option to the API and UI elements.
Regards, Kristoffer Sheather Cloud Central Scale Your Data Center In The Cloud Phone: 1300 144 007 | Mobile: +61 414 573 130 | Email: k...@cloudcentral.com.au LinkedIn: | Skype: kristoffer.sheather | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kristofferjon ---------------------------------------- From: "Ioan Eugen Stan" <stan.ieu...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:44 AM To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org, "Nik Martin" <nik.mar...@nfinausa.com> Subject: Re: force expunge Hello Nick, Thanks for the quick answer. I was hoping for a miracle :) but I guess there is no forceExpunge flag that I can set. So the only thing left to do is wait for the expunge job to finish. I wonder if there are any plans to implement such a feature. Cheers, On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Nik Martin <nik.mar...@nfinausa.com> wrote: > There is a global setting in the CS UI that sets the time for the expunge > task to run. it runs on a schedule. Set the VM expunge timeout to 60 and it > will rn once a minute. > > Regards, > > Nik > > Nik Martin > +1.251.243.0043 x1003 > Relentless Reliability > > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm working on the CloudStack driver for Axembrl Provisionr [1] and >> I'm having some issues with expunge. I can't delete a network before >> all VM's that use it are destroyed and expunged. Expunging takes >> forever and the delete network API call is executed before so I end >> not cleaning up ok. >> >> In a live test [2], I'm creating via jclouds API a network, register a >> ssh key and create a VM. Then I destroy them in reverse, but I don't >> wait for the VM to be expunged and this makes impossible the network >> deletion. I'm leaking networks, which is not nice. Instructions to run >> the live tests are here [3] >> >> What is the best strategy in this case? Is there any way that I can >> speed up/force expunging - API call, cloud configuration? >> >> Thanks, >> >> [1] https://github.com/axemblr/axemblr-provisionr/ >> [2] >> https://github.com/ieugen/axemblr-provisionr/blob/run-instance/providers/clo udstack/src/test/java/com/axemblr/provisionr/cloudstack/activities/CreateGat ewayLiveTest.java >> [3] end of README: https://github.com/ieugen/axemblr-provisionr >> -- >> Ioan Eugen Stan / CTO / http://axemblr.com >> > -- Ioan Eugen Stan / CTO / http://axemblr.com
