Hi Daniel

Such a feature would be really useful when provisioning VMs and avoiding leaks. 
To be useful, this also requires support for client token in 
ec2-describe-instances equivalent in open nebula
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/ApiReference-cmd-DescribeInstances.html

AWS uses client token to achieve idempotency in few other calls too, but I will 
leave that upto you on if and where you want to support such a functionality.

Thanks & Regards
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| Parag Mhashilkar
| Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS 120
| Wilson & Kirk Road, Batavia, IL - 60510
|----------------------------------------------------------
| Phone: 1 (630) 840-6530 Fax: 1 (630) 840-3109
|----------------------------------------------------------
| Wilson Hall, 806E (Nov 8, 2012 - To date)
| Wilson Hall, 867E (Nov 17, 2010 - Nov 7, 2012)
| Wilson Hall, 863E (Apr 24, 2007 - Nov 16, 2010)
| Wilson Hall, 856E (Mar 21, 2005 - Apr 23, 2007)
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On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Daniel Molina wrote:

> I think tthat could be implemented in the econe server. 
> 1. Include an EC2_CLIENT_TOKEN in the vm.allocate method containing the  
> ClientToken param provided in the CreateInstance command. 
> 2. When a new CreateInstance is requested and contains a ClientToken, the 
> vmpool is retrieved to check if any vm contains that token
> 
> On 15 October 2014 18:34, Parag Mhashilkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> That won't help. If the middle ware like HTcondor or run-instance commands 
> starts putting anything in the user data, users are deprived of the 
> functionality of user data.
> 
> AWS achieves idempotency with --client-token option, which to me seems like a 
> tagging the request from the client side.
> 
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/ApiReference-cmd-RunInstances.html
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> +==========================================================
> | Parag Mhashilkar
> | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS 120
> | Wilson & Kirk Road, Batavia, IL - 60510
> |----------------------------------------------------------
> | Phone: 1 (630) 840-6530 Fax: 1 (630) 840-3109
> |----------------------------------------------------------
> | Wilson Hall, 806E (Nov 8, 2012 - To date)
> | Wilson Hall, 867E (Nov 17, 2010 - Nov 7, 2012)
> | Wilson Hall, 863E (Apr 24, 2007 - Nov 16, 2010)
> | Wilson Hall, 856E (Mar 21, 2005 - Apr 23, 2007)
> +==========================================================
> 
> On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Daniel Molina wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 15 October 2014 18:18, Parag Mhashilkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Let me rephrase what we meant.
> >
> > As Steve mentioned in one of his emails, we use HTCondor to launch VMs. 
> > There is always a possibility that something can go wrong after a 
> > run-instance command is issued and before the ec2 server gets back to you 
> > with a valid instance id or an error message. Note that in this case the 
> > server may serve the request, but there is no way for the client to know 
> > the exact instance name that resulted from the request. Life is much easier 
> > if the client crashes after it gets back the instance name.
> >
> > One way for the client to know the exact status of the request even after a 
> > crash (and before it gets the instance id) is to assign a unique identifier 
> > of its own like a tag name or something. This way client will never lose 
> > track of the request and result in the leaked VMs.
> >
> > The way HTCondor is implementing this is by creating a new key pair and 
> > giving it a unique name and tracking the requests based on the key pair. 
> > But then we are hit by other limit ~300 that we observed.
> >
> > Ideally, we would like to use the --keypair option and use the existing pre 
> > registered key. But than we cannot track the results of the create-instance 
> > in case something goes wrong before the instance id is issued.
> >
> > And what about including a tag in the UserData instead of using the unique 
> > keypar?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks & Regards
> > +==========================================================
> > | Parag Mhashilkar
> > | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS 120
> > | Wilson & Kirk Road, Batavia, IL - 60510
> > |----------------------------------------------------------
> > | Phone: 1 (630) 840-6530 Fax: 1 (630) 840-3109
> > |----------------------------------------------------------
> > | Wilson Hall, 806E (Nov 8, 2012 - To date)
> > | Wilson Hall, 867E (Nov 17, 2010 - Nov 7, 2012)
> > | Wilson Hall, 863E (Apr 24, 2007 - Nov 16, 2010)
> > | Wilson Hall, 856E (Mar 21, 2005 - Apr 23, 2007)
> > +==========================================================
> >
> > On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Daniel Molina wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 15 October 2014 17:57, Steven Timm <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > If you call the same CreateInstances command more than once
> > > is there any way that it will create the instance twice or not.
> > >
> > > If you call the command twice it will create 2 instances. You can also 
> > > provide de MaxCount param in the CreateInstance command to create more 
> > > than one instance at once.
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve Timm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Daniel Molina wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > What do you mean with "idempotent"? As long as the client implements the 
> > > ec2 API, it should work
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > On 13 October 2014 20:33, Parag Mhashilkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >       Hi,
> > >
> > >       We are using HTCondor to launch VMs in OpenNebula using ec2 
> > > interface and would like to know if the
> > >       submit calls are idempotent.
> > >
> > >       Thanks & Regards
> > >       +==========================================================
> > >       | Parag Mhashilkar
> > >       | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS 120
> > >       | Wilson & Kirk Road, Batavia, IL - 60510
> > >       |----------------------------------------------------------
> > >       | Phone: 1 (630) 840-6530 Fax: 1 (630) 840-3109
> > >       |----------------------------------------------------------
> > >       | Wilson Hall, 806E (Nov 8, 2012 - To date)
> > >       | Wilson Hall, 867E (Nov 17, 2010 - Nov 7, 2012)
> > >       | Wilson Hall, 863E (Apr 24, 2007 - Nov 16, 2010)
> > >       | Wilson Hall, 856E (Mar 21, 2005 - Apr 23, 2007)
> > >       +==========================================================
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > --
> > > --
> > > Daniel Molina
> > > Project Engineer
> > > OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Steven C. Timm, Ph.D  (630) 840-8525
> > > [email protected]  http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
> > > Fermilab Scientific Computing Division, Scientific Computing Services 
> > > Quad.
> > > Grid and Cloud Services Dept., Associate Dept. Head for Cloud Computing
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > Daniel Molina
> > > Project Engineer
> > > OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
> > > www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] | @OpenNebula
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Daniel Molina
> > Project Engineer
> > OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
> > www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] | @OpenNebula
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Daniel Molina
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
> www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] | @OpenNebula

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