[one-users] Opennebula 3.8 Resource rename

[Alberto Picón Couselo]

We have changed resources names (images, networks, clusters, templates) 
and datastores location correctly using a MySQL editor with opennebula 
stopped.

Thank you very much for your help,
Best Regards,
Alberto Picón

>
> El 19/02/2013 14:51, Carlos Martín Sánchez escribió:
>> 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?
>>
>> 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 <http://www.OpenNebula.org> | 
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>> <http://twitter.com/opennebula>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Vassilis Vatikiotis 
>> <vatikiot at iit.demokritos.gr <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://www.OpenNebula.org> |
>>     cmartin at opennebula.org <mailto:cmartin at opennebula.org> | @OpenNebula
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Alberto Picón Couselo
>>     <alpicon1 at gmail.com <mailto: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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