What is the difference between shelving an instance and shutting down?
From the blueprint ( https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova... ) I don't see any difference:
"Users would like the ability to stop servers when they don't need them, but retain it in their list of servers and keep all associated data and resources with it."
Yay code:
http://git.openstack.org/cgit/opensta...
Shelving stops the instance and takes a snapshot of it. Then depending on the value of the shelved_offload_time config option, the instance is deleted from the hypervisor (0), never deleted (-1), or deleted after some period of time (> 0). Note that it's just destroying the backing instance on the hypervisor, the actual instance in the nova database is not deleted. Then you can later unshelve the instance:
Taken from OpenStack User Guide:
Shelving is useful if you have an instance that you are not using, but would like retain in your list of servers. For example, you can stop an instance at the end of a work week, and resume work again at the start of the next week. All associated data and resources are kept; however, anything still in memory is not retained. If a shelved instance is no longer needed, it can also be entirely removed.
And is not everything from above valid for shutdown also? From what I could see, the VM is also consuming resources when shelved, just as a shutdown machine.
Asked: 2014-06-11 10:45:08 -0500
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Last updated: Jun 14 '14
