[one-users] Opennebula 3.8 Resource rename

[Vassilis Vatikiotis]

Oh, but I do need the option to rename my resources via the one* CLI
commands. I'll go with GUI sql tool for now.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Vassilis Vatikiotis
<vatikiot at iit.demokritos.gr> wrote:
> 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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