Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Friesen
On 10/04/2013 12:06 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: You've covered some reasons why there might be an instance attribute, but you still need to deal with getting the information about the underlying storage services from those storage services. Don't make assumptions about what a storage service is

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-04 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 10/4/2013 7:33 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: On 10/04/2013 04:11 AM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > > On Oct 3, 2013 1:45 PM, "Chris Friesen" > wrote: > > > > On 10/03/2013 02:02 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > >> On October 3, 2013 12:44:50 PM Chris Friesen > >> ma

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Friesen
On 10/04/2013 04:11 AM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: On Oct 3, 2013 1:45 PM, "Chris Friesen" mailto:chris.frie...@windriver.com>> wrote: > > On 10/03/2013 02:02 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: >> On October 3, 2013 12:44:50 PM Chris Friesen >> mailto:chris.frie...@windriver.com>> wrote: >>> I wa

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Friesen
On 10/04/2013 03:31 AM, Cristian Tomoiaga wrote: Hello Chris, Just a note regarding this. I was thinking on using local plus shared storage for an instance ( eg. root disk local and another disk as a cinder volume ). If I understand this correctly, flagging the instance as having local storage m

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-04 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On Oct 3, 2013 1:45 PM, "Chris Friesen" wrote: > > On 10/03/2013 02:02 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: >> >> >> >> On October 3, 2013 12:44:50 PM Chris Friesen >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I was wondering if there is any interest in adding an >>> "on_shared_storage" field to the Instance class. This would b

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-04 Thread Cristian Tomoiaga
Hello Chris, Just a note regarding this. I was thinking on using local plus shared storage for an instance ( eg. root disk local and another disk as a cinder volume ). If I understand this correctly, flagging the instance as having local storage may not be such a good idea in this particular case

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Friesen
On 10/03/2013 02:02 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: On October 3, 2013 12:44:50 PM Chris Friesen wrote: I was wondering if there is any interest in adding an "on_shared_storage" field to the Instance class. This would be set once at instance creation time and we would then be able to avoid havin

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-03 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On October 3, 2013 12:44:50 PM Chris Friesen wrote: I was wondering if there is any interest in adding an "on_shared_storage" field to the Instance class. This would be set once at instance creation time and we would then be able to avoid having the admin manually pass it in for the vari

[openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Friesen
I was wondering if there is any interest in adding an "on_shared_storage" field to the Instance class. This would be set once at instance creation time and we would then be able to avoid having the admin manually pass it in for the various API calls (evacuate/rebuild_instance/migration/etc.)