VMware live migration

Registered by Radoslav Gerganov

This blueprint is for implementing live migration in the VMware driver.

When the VMware driver is used, nova-compute is managing a vCenter cluster.

For the purposes of this proposal we assume that all nova-computes are managing
clusters under the same vCenter server.

Live migration will be implemented using the VMware vMotion technology. In order
to migrate an instance, the source nova-compute needs to know the cluster name
and the datastore regex of the target nova-compute. The actual migration is a simple
matter of calling RelocateVM_Task() API.

Reference:
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.VirtualMachine.html#relocate

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Matt Riedemann
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Radoslav Gerganov
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Radoslav Gerganov
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for stein
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon stein-1
Started by
Radoslav Gerganov
Completed by
melanie witt

Related branches

Sprints

Whiteboard

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:relocate,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/270116
    VMware: Live migration of instances

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/vmware-live-migration,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/299207
    VMware: add support for live migration

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/is,n,z

Approved for Rocky. -- mriedem 20180606

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:live-migration-networking,n,z

We're past feature freeze for Rocky, so this must be deferred. Please re-propose the spec for Stein if you'd like to work on it next cycle. -- melwitt 20180727

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/598163
    VMware: add support for live migration

Re-approved for Stein. -- mriedem 20180830

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