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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wasn't aware that force_hosts actually works. Someone should probably verify. The availability zone method still works in grizzly.

Vish

On Mar 30, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I see that in grizzly an admin can use a scheduler hint to force a VM to launch on a particular host, e.g.:
> 
> nova boot --image 1 --flavor 2 --key_name test --hint force_hosts=server2 my-first-server
> (from: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/specify-host-to-boot-instances-on.html)
> 
> In Folsom, an admin could do this with the availability zone flag:
> 
> nova boot --image <uuid> --flavor m1.tiny --key_name test --availability-zone nova:server2
> 
> (from: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/specify-zone-to-boot-instances-on.html)
> 
> Does the second method work in grizzly as well? If so, should we recommend one approach over the other in the docs? 
> 
> Lorin
> 
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