Yes, I am thinking on those lines as well. I was planning to write a new 
extension. But probably extending the current evacuate command to take in the 
snapshot as input might be a better approach  as you outlined. Was that what 
your thinking is?

Thanks,
Sangeeta

From: ChangBo Guo <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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Date: Friday, February 21, 2014 at 6:42 AM
To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
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Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][glance] Question about evacuate with no 
shared storage..

This looks like a useful feature,  need some work to do that. evacuate function 
based on rebuild, if we want to use snapshot images, we need pass the the 
snapshot reference  from API layer ,and expose the interface from 
python-novaclient. Correct me if I am wrong :)


2014-02-21 13:01 GMT+08:00 Sangeeta Singh 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Hi,

At my organization we do not use a shared storage for VM disks  but need to 
evacuate VMs  from a HV that is down or having problems to another HV. The 
evacuate command only allows the evacuated VM to have the base image. What I am 
interested in is to create a snapshot of the VM on the down HV and then be able 
to use the evacuate command by specifying the snapshot for the image.

Has anyone had such a use case? Is there a command that uses snapshots in this 
way to recreate VM on a new HV.

Thanks for the pointers.

Sangeeta

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