We'd really appreciate it if there was a git tool that we could try out and put in pull requests for any further functions we need.
I feel the use case is reasonably common that if we can establish a tool for it, we could then propose a blueprint to include it into the mainstream product with test cases. Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Stellwag [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 25 October 2013 11:04 > To: Tim Bell; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Migrate instances/tenants between clouds > > Tim, > > On 24.10.2013 19:51, Tim Bell wrote: > > Have you tried > > > > - snapshot > > - glance download of the snapshot > > - glance upload of the snapshot to new instance > > - boot from snapshot > > thank you very much. This is working fine but unfortunately not enough for > us. This way, we loose all the metadata of both the instance > and the > template: > > - security groups > - SSH keys > - attached volumes > - associated fixed and floating IP addresses. > > The idea is to have the VMs in the new environment appear exactly as they did > in the old one, so simply moving a snapshot between the > clouds does not work :( > > We'll probably end up writing a migration tool to achieve our goals and I' > pretty confident we'll be able to make it publicly available vo > github. > > Cheers, > Alex > -- > Alexander Stellwag > Deutsche Telekom AG Products & Innovation Infrastructure Design _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
