1) Didn’t notice “the elephant” - that the Reset Vm option is presented as a button unlike the icons for other options. UI folks - Brian/Jessica- why we decided to represent this option differently in the UI?
2) Mike, I’ve looked at the code and the history. We've always allocated a new volume during the vm restore call. Hari, can you please confirm that this feature you wrote, was designed to work this way -Alena. On 3/19/14, 2:41 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: >To clarify: Reboot VM seemed to keep the VM running and just reboot the >OS. > >Reset VM seemed to shut the VM down and then re-start it (with the same >root disk for the OS). > > >On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Mike Tutkowski < >mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > >> I could be wrong, but I thought as recently as 4.3 that Reset VM >> essentially stopped and then re-started the VM with the same root disk. >> >> It seemed to differ from Reboot VM only in the sense that the VM was >>never >> technically stopped (the OS inside the VM was just rebooted). >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Mike Tutkowski < >> mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm using XenServer 6.1 hosts (two of them) in this case. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Mike Tutkowski < >>> mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Yeah, stopping and restarting works fine...as does, I believe, >>>>rebooting >>>> the VM. >>>> >>>> Right below Reboot VM, there is a Reset VM option. >>>> >>>> If that means "re-install," then we probably should clean up the old >>>> root disk. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Alena Prokharchyk < >>>> alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> don¹t see ³Reset Vm² option in UI; do you mean ³Reboot instance²? >>>>>I¹ve >>>>> just tried that, as well as calling stop/startVM from the UI. The Vm >>>>> boots >>>>> up with its original disk. >>>>> >>>>> I¹m having Xen/Nfs, not sure it matters >>>>> >>>>> -Alena. >>>>> >>>>> On 3/19/14, 2:19 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >I didn't look into what the GUI calls, but I invoked the Reset VM >>>>> option >>>>> >in >>>>> >the GUI. >>>>> > >>>>> >Thanks >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> >On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Alena Prokharchyk < >>>>> >alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> >> Mike, just to confirm - did you call >>>>> >> stopVirtualMachine/startVirtualMachine apis? >>>>> >> >>>>> >> -alena. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> On 3/19/14, 1:55 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" >>>>><mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> >>>>> >> wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >Hi, >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> >I noticed today while running through some test cases for 4.4 >>>>>that >>>>> >> >resetting a VM does not work as expected. >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> >Instead of the typical stop and re-start behavior where the VM is >>>>> >>booted >>>>> >> >back up using the same root disk, the VM gets a new root disk >>>>>when >>>>> it >>>>> >>is >>>>> >> >booted back up. >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> >Can anyone confirm this finding for me with his or her setup? >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> >Thanks! >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> >-- >>>>> >> >*Mike Tutkowski* >>>>> >> >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >>>>> >> >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >>>>> >> >o: 303.746.7302 >>>>> >> >Advancing the way the world uses the >>>>> >> >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >>>>> >> >*(tm)* >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> >-- >>>>> >*Mike Tutkowski* >>>>> >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >>>>> >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >>>>> >o: 303.746.7302 >>>>> >Advancing the way the world uses the >>>>> >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >>>>> >*(tm)* >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *Mike Tutkowski* >>>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >>>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >>>> o: 303.746.7302 >>>> Advancing the way the world uses the >>>>cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >>>> *(tm)* >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Mike Tutkowski* >>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >>> o: 303.746.7302 >>> Advancing the way the world uses the >>>cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >>> *(tm)* >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Mike Tutkowski* >> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> o: 303.746.7302 >> Advancing the way the world uses the >>cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> *(tm)* >> > > > >-- >*Mike Tutkowski* >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >o: 303.746.7302 >Advancing the way the world uses the >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >*(tm)*
