Openstack Shelving and Unshelving
- Ramzi Jalili
This is a short article detailing the steps for shelving and un-shelving a VM
Instructions
Shelving:
openstack server shelve (server name)
No output given for the shelve command
Connection will be closed if connected whilst the server gets shelved
openstack server list
Status changed to SHELVED_OFFLOADED after a few minutes
Shelve status shown on web interface as well
Once shelved there will be an image created in the tab shown above, this image is the equivalent of a snapshot and could be used to launch a new VM with the same configurations as the original VM
Unshelving:
openstack server unshelve (server name)
Also no output for this command
Status can be viewed same as if shelving
Possible errors:
Unable to unshelve items that are not shelved
Same as for trying to shelve an item that is shelved