[Openstack-operators] [nova] Recovering instances from old system

2016-01-07 Thread Liam Haworth
Hey guys, I just recently rebuilt the OpenStack infrastructure at my work to upgrade from Juno to Liberty, before wiping everything clean I made dumps of all the databases and the instances where persisted though the upgrade via NFS. Now that I have the infrastructure up and going again I was won

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova] Recovering instances from old system

2016-01-08 Thread Abel Lopez
I would expect that if you have the databases in place, and they went through the proper migrations, that your instances would still be there. You can check the nova database instances table using the uuid. How exactly did you 'wipe everything clean'? > On Jan 7, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Liam Haworth

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova] Recovering instances from old system

2016-01-10 Thread Liam Haworth
Hey Abel, When I say 'wiped everything clean" I mean that we made backups of the databases and configuration on all hosts before reinstalling Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on top to start with a clean slate, we did this because we decided to make the change to the LinuxBridge agent from the OpenVSwitch agent p

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova] Recovering instances from old system

2016-01-11 Thread Matt Fischer
Personally, I'd just try to load the instance images like you said. If you try to load Icehouse records onto Liberty code its not going to work. Typically you'd do the upgrade one step at a time with database migrations done at every step. On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Liam Haworth wrote: > H

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova] Recovering instances from old system

2016-01-11 Thread Kris G. Lindgren
ject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova] Recovering instances from old system Personally, I'd just try to load the instance images like you said. If you try to load Icehouse records onto Liberty code its not going to work. Typically you'd do the upgrade one step at a time with database