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 back from medium to small >> >> I get the following : >> >> Error: Failed to perform requested operation on instance "jg-10", the >> instance has an error status: Please try again later [Error: Flavor's disk >> is too small for requested image.]. >> >> I am using ceph as the storage backend clustered over 3 nodes with 3 pools >> "volumes" "vms" "images" >> > > In addition to the note already made about reducing filesystem sizes, > I just want to reaffirm that resize is really not the way you want to > be using clouds, and IMO should be removed from Nova (but there's enough > people who disagree with me that it will probably stay). > > Anyway, I suggest never using resize, and just deploying new servers, > running tests, and then deleting the old ones. Having cloud with > flexibility and space for this is why you have a cloud.
As a person who runs a system with both long-lived pets and cattle that we grind in to food, I can attest that we do not use resize. It is a much longer downtime/risk operation than you want. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev