Hi all,

I've just opened a bug around booting multiple instances at once, and it was suggested on IRC that I mention it here to broaden the discussion around the ideal behaviour.

The bug is at:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1458122

Basically the problem is this:

When booting up instances, nova allows the user to specify a "min count" and a "max count". So logically, this request should be considered successful if at least "min count" instances can be booted.

Currently, if the user has quota space for "max count" instances, then nova will try to create them all. If any of them can't be scheduled, then the creation of all of them will be aborted and they will all be put into an error state.

Arguably, if nova was able to schedule at least "min count" instances (which defaults to 1) then it should continue on with creating those instances that it was able to schedule. Only if nova cannot create at least "min count" instances should nova actually consider the request as failed.

Also, I think that if nova can't schedule "max count" instances, but can schedule at least "min count" instances, then it shouldn't put the unscheduled ones into an error state--it should just delete them.

Thoughts?

Chris

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