Configure resize¶
Resize (or Server resize) is the ability to change the flavor of a server, thus allowing it to upscale or downscale according to user needs. For this feature to work properly, you might need to configure some underlying virt layers.
Virt drivers¶
Todo
This section needs to be updated for other virt drivers, shared storage considerations, etc.
KVM¶
Resize on KVM is implemented currently by transferring the images between compute nodes over ssh. For KVM you need hostnames to resolve properly and passwordless ssh access between your compute hosts. Direct access from one compute host to another is needed to copy the VM file across.
Cloud end users can find out how to resize a server by reading Resize an instance.
XenServer¶
To get resize to work with XenServer (and XCP), you need to establish a root
trust between all hypervisor nodes and provide an /image mount point to
your hypervisors dom0.
Automatic confirm¶
There is a periodic task configured by configuration option
resize_confirm_window (in seconds).
If this value is not 0, the nova-compute service will check whether
servers are in a resized state longer than the value of
resize_confirm_window and if so will automatically
confirm the resize of the servers.
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