Migrate a single instance to another compute host in Administrator Guide
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OpenStack Compute (nova) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Bernd Bausch |
Bug Description
This bug tracker is for errors with the documentation, use the following as a template and remove or add fields as you see fit. Convert [ ] into [x] to check boxes:
- [X] This doc is inaccurate in this way:
Related to https:/
The page mixes live and cold migration without making it clear.
Some details:
Wrong text: "The scheduler chooses the destination compute host". When using the openstack client to live-migrate an instance, the user has to provide the destination host (I haven't double-checked that in Ocata, but the current OSC documentation says so).
The script in step 3 uses the "nova migrate" command instead of "openstack server migrate" and performs a cold migration, which is inconsistent with the live migration in step 2. Besides, the script could probably be simplified.
To monitor live migration, "nova server-
Inconsistent text "The instance is booted from a new host" - this is true for cold migration, but not live migration.
I would rewrite the page, giving examples for cold and live migration.
- [ ] This is a doc addition request.
- [ ] I have a fix to the document that I can paste below including example: input and output.
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Release: 0.9 on 2017-03-06 05:22
SHA: ccf45727a00cc74
Source: https:/
URL: https:/
Changed in openstack-manuals: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in openstack-manuals: | |
assignee: | nobody → Bernd Bausch (berndbausch) |
affects: | openstack-manuals → nova |
Changed in nova: | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
tags: | added: doc low-hanging-fruit |
Changed in nova: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |