rescue does not bring back nodes from dead hosts. It reboots the instance with a fresh copy of the image it booted with as the base drive and attaches the current drive as a second drive so you can mount it and fix things. Unrescue switches back to the original drive after you have made your repairs.
Vish On Sep 19, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Sam Stoelinga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ale, > > It's the first time I see nova rescue, maybe this should be somewhere else in > the documentation. Maybe the part related to migration, that's where I looked > and tried. > > I first tried to do migration of the VM on a dead host, but that didn't work > then after searching I stumbled upon this patch to enable the functionality > to move VMs from a dead host: > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11086/12 > But it wasn't available for Essex, and won't be in Folsom either. So I > thought this functionality was not there yet either. Searched for ours > documentation and google, but never saw anything about rescue. > Is the functionality the same as the above patch? I looked at the code, and > the code seems much smaller. The above patch seems to do more cleaning up > also. > > Because I didn't know about nova rescue I already copied the patch to Essex > successfully, but maybe it's safe to use nova rescue. > This is the evacuate patch for stable essex: > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/13282/ > > Do I understand right that this is the workflow: > nova rescue instance1 > Look if the state changed to RESCUED > if it's rescued do a nova unrescue instance1 > which cleans up the resources used for rescuing and changes the state back to > ACTIVE on the vm? > > Thanks a lot, sure is helpful. > > Sam > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Alejandro Comisario > <[email protected]> wrote: > if you are on essex, you can issue a "nova rescue", if in cactus, you have to > manipulate the "instances" table to tell where the new instance will be > running, and then from the new compute node issue a : > > virsh define /path/to/XML > virsh start instance_name > > From that moment, you can manage the instance using euca / nova > > Ale > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Folks, > > Although it seems a pretty straightforward scenario I have a hard time > finding documentation on this. > One of my compute nodes broke down. All the instances are on shared storage, > so no troubles here, but I don't know how to tell openstack that the VM > should be deployed on another compute node. I tried fiddling around in the > mysql-db with no success. > Any help is really appreciated. > > Wolfgang > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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