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[Gabe Westmaas <gabe.westmaas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Its in the instance_metadata table in the nova db.

From: Trinath Somanchi [mailto:trinath.somanchi@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 9:15 PM
To: Anne Gentle
Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack] Openstack NOVA and Metadata.

Hi Guys-

Thanks a lot for the replies,

One more doubt.

Where is this metadata stored in the Nova Database.

Please help me understand the same.

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TNS
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Anne Gentle <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> Though I have too many questions, I'm in need of these since, Want to
>> understand the ROLE of metadata concept?
>
>
> The role is simple - you can set metadata on a server, and retrieve it later
> if you wish.
Let's say you're creating a web interface, like a dashboard, that
talks to the Compute API. You might want to let your users assign
"tags" to their servers like "LAMP" or "WAMP" or "production" or
"testarea" - metadata could be used for that use case.

Hope this helps.
Anne

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