Public bug reported: With currently vmware driver. the power_off will explicitly calls PowerOffVM_Task.
In this case, If a virtual machine is writing to disk when it receives a Power Off command, data corruption may occur. Actually in SDK, there is another method ShutdownGuest which will issues a command to the guest operating system asking it to perform a clean shutdown of all services. So it is suggest to use ShutdownGuest first and wait for some interval, if the power state is still up, make a force shutdown. ** Affects: nova Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: vmware ** Tags added: vmware -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377781 Title: VMWare: should use ShutDownGuest to do grace OS shutdown and then force power off if timeout passed Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): New Bug description: With currently vmware driver. the power_off will explicitly calls PowerOffVM_Task. In this case, If a virtual machine is writing to disk when it receives a Power Off command, data corruption may occur. Actually in SDK, there is another method ShutdownGuest which will issues a command to the guest operating system asking it to perform a clean shutdown of all services. So it is suggest to use ShutdownGuest first and wait for some interval, if the power state is still up, make a force shutdown. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1377781/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp