We just hit this and replaced a call to nova with a direct database query - literally yesterday!
Chris Morgan Sent from my iPhone > On May 18, 2016, at 6:13 PM, David Medberry <openst...@medberry.net> wrote: > > So, we just ran into an "at-sale" issue that shouldn't have been an issue. > > Many of the OpenStack CLI tools accept a limit parameter (to limit how much > data you get back from a single query). However, much less well documented is > that there is an inherent limit that you will run into at a 1000 VMs (not > counting deleted ones). Many operators have already exceeded that limit and > likely run into this. With nova cli and openstack client, you can simply pass > in a limit of -1 to get around this (and though it will still make paged > queries, you won't have "invisible" VMs which is what I've begun to call the > ones that don't make it into the first/default page. > > I can't really call this a bug for Nova (but it is definitely a bug for > Cinder which doesn't have a functional get me all of them command and is also > limited at 1000 for a single call but you can never get the rest at least in > our Liberty environment.) > > box:~# nova list |tail -n +4 |head -n -1 |wc > 1000 16326 416000 > box:~# nova list --limit -1 |tail -n +4 |head -n -1 |wc > 1060 17274 440960 > > (so I recently went over the limit of 1000) > > YMMV. > > Good luck. > > -d > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
