Joop wrote:
Hi List,
As per the subject, I have a desire to start a lot of VMs after a maintenance shutdown of our infrastructure and I would like to either evenly spread the load among the hosts or to restart the VMs on the host they were on before shutdown. Getting the list using ovirt-shell and transforming that to a 'action vm ABC start' is no problem but I can't find if its possible to specify the host to run the VM on. Is this possible using ovirt-shell and can someone point me to some docs? (Have read (all) the rhevm docs but either overlooked or its not there)
Answering my own question: The help describes something about parent identifiers and references the examples below but there is no example of how to use parent identifiers. Extrapolating from disks belonging to a vm a reasoned that vms belong to a host so did 'list hosts' and copied the id. It says 'An object identifier is an option of the form '--<type>id <id>' but it looks this is confusing, atleast to me. This is what worked: action vm VM_NAME start --type ID_OF_HOST The help has 2x id which confuses me. Joop