[one-users] Opennebula 3.8 Resource rename

[Vassilis Vatikiotis]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Carlos Martín Sánchez
<cmartin at opennebula.org> wrote:
> All the information is read from the DB, so yes, it's possible to change
> anything you want.
> But there are lots of connections between different resources. For example a
> VM stores in its xml body not only the host id, but also the hostname, VMM
> driver...
>
> I wouldn't edit the DB, but if you do, make sure you keep a backup and use
> onedb fsck tool [1] to fix *some* inconsistencies.
>

> I wonder why do you need to change the IDs, is it something we should
> support for some reason?
Not really, I just needed to confirm that indeed all the resources
info is stored in the DB backed *only*. The other non-reason is that
when I'm feeling pedantic I want, e.g. host3 to have the  ID 3. As far
as I'm concerned, I don't need this to be supported.

>
> Regards
>
> [1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.8:onedb
>
> --
> Carlos Martín, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open-source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | cmartin at opennebula.org | @OpenNebula
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Vassilis Vatikiotis
> <vatikiot at iit.demokritos.gr> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> regarding your answer, is it possible to also change, in the DB,
>> resources IDs? Of course, within the DB, the IDs have to be consistent
>> so that relationships do not break. Assuming that DB consistency is
>> maintained, would this be possilbe?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Carlos Martín Sánchez
>> <cmartin at opennebula.org> wrote:
>> > Did you stop opennebula before touching the DB?
>> > Otherwise, you will get the list output from the DB, and the individual
>> > info
>> > from the cache. This cached information will eventually replace the data
>> > in
>> > the DB.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > --
>> > Carlos Martín, MSc
>> > Project Engineer
>> > OpenNebula - The Open-source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
>> > www.OpenNebula.org | cmartin at opennebula.org | @OpenNebula
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Alberto Picón Couselo
>> > <alpicon1 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi, there.
>> >>
>> >> We would like to change names of resources, for instance, image names
>> >> or cluster names.
>> >>
>> >> For example, we have changed image name information directly in MySQL
>> >> database, changing NAME column and BODY column from image_pool table.
>> >> However, SunStone shows the changes partially. Image data seems to be
>> >> changed in row view, but when we click over it, image details shows
>> >> older information.
>> >>
>> >> We have similar results if we try to change image datastore
>> >> information. We need to change an image from one datastore to another
>> >> without reregistering it. If we change image_pool, datastore
>> >> information, SOURCE, DATASTORE_ID, DATASTORE, tags, Sunstone updates
>> >> the information partially...
>> >>
>> >> Please, can you give us any clue to rename resources?
>> >>
>> >> Best Regards,
>> >> Alberto Picón
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