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[Lei Zhang <zhang.lei.fly@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Julie

Thank you very much.

I found nothing about these two command, and I am appreciate for adding
some help information in `nova help migrate`.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Julie Pichon <jpichon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Lei,
>
> "Lei Zhang" <zhang.lei.fly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Today, I am testing the openstack migrate function. ( not live
> > migration)
> > After run the command `nova migrate`, the status of the instance
> > became
> > `Verify Resize` and never changed itself. Event though I found this
> > instance has been started on another instance.
> >
> > If is this a bug? Or I forgot something to configure?
>
> Migrate is a 2-steps process: once the instance reaches the VERIFY_RESIZE
> stage, you need to run nova resize-confirm if you're happy with the new
> instance (this will delete the old one), or nova resize-revert if you want
> to go back to the old instance (this will delete the new one). Migrate and
> resize use the same mechanism, hence the naming of these 2 commands.
>
> There probably should be something to indicate this in the 'nova help
> migrate' command, since this is something many people seem to get caught in
> when first running migrate - myself included.
>
> Regards,
>
> Julie
>



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