Re: [Openstack] How to soft-delete an instance ?

2014-05-08 Thread Sekhar Vajjhala
Hi Mauro, Thanks for the info. It worked but here are a few of the things that found in the process. I am using Havana not devstack. 1. It appears there is no way to list instances that are in SOFT_DELETE state using the nova command. a. The command "nova list --deleted" does not work; -The

Re: [Openstack] How to soft-delete an instance ?

2014-05-06 Thread Mauro S M Rodrigues
You will have to set reclaim_instance_interval > 0 on your nova.conf and all delete actions will be soft by default (unless you force delete it). -- mauro(sr) On 05/06/2014 03:36 PM, Sekhar Vajjhala wrote: The following VM state are documented in https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/VMState . S

[Openstack] How to soft-delete an instance ?

2014-05-06 Thread Sekhar Vajjhala
The following VM state are documented in https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/VMState . SOFT_DELETED: VM is no longer running on compute, but the disk image remains and can be brought back. HARD_DELETED: From quota and billing’s perspective, the VM no longer exists. VM will eventually be destroyed runn