[Cloud] Re: Hibernating a VM?

2021-06-07 Thread Andrew Bogott
I'll have a look at those tasks; it may be that the 'fix' will be to disable the 'shelving' feature. A couple of things to keep in mind regarding your original question: - A shut down VM is no longer maintained by puppet, which means it might miss out on security updates and the like while unr

[Cloud] Re: Hibernating a VM?

2021-06-07 Thread Roy Smith
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284461 Also see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284462 > On Jun 7, 2021, at 10:01 AM, David Caro wrote: > > > Shelving is very similar to shutting the VM off, but a

[Cloud] Re: Hibernating a VM?

2021-06-07 Thread David Caro
Shelving is very similar to shutting the VM off, but a bit more complex. The quota for that instance will be deduced from your quota too, and if not unshelved in a specific amount of time, the VM will be removed. When unshelving, you will need to have enough quota to get it back. Currently your

[Cloud] Re: Hibernating a VM?

2021-06-07 Thread Roy Smith
Looking in https://horizon.wikimedia.org/project/instances/43d3e9f2-b7d5-4a51-92b6-6a636839d66f/ , I also see "Shelve Instance"; what does that do? I'm actually kind of curious about that last one because

[Cloud] Re: Hibernating a VM?

2021-06-07 Thread David Caro
On 06/07 08:59, Roy Smith wrote: > I've got a VM (spi-tools-host-1) that I'm not actively using right now. I > could shut it down to release the CPU resources, but I want to be able to > start it back up again at some point in the future with the same > configuration. On AWS I would just back