[libvirt-users] Managing VMs across multiple physical hosts
William Kern
wkern at pixelgate.net
Mon Apr 25 19:15:25 UTC 2016
the libvirt command to see what is running is simply 'virsh list'
so if you have a config tool system like puppet/chef/ansible (or even
remote ssh commands) you can simply send that command to each node.
We use ansible, so a simple on liner would be:
ansible all -i virt_list.ini -m command -a 'virsh list' --sudo
where the file virt_list.ini is the list of VM hosts.
That would output a listing that looks like this
host-b2 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
4 vm34 running
5 vm42 running
host-b3 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
3 vm2 running
5 vm12 running
7 vm33 running
etc.
so you would quickly see whats running where. With a little
grep/awk/perl goodness, it would be trivial to pipe that output into a
DB table that could searched and constantly updated.
The more hardcore ansible guys could make some sort of playbook that
would do the above, but the above shows you the way.
-bill
On 4/24/2016 4:01 PM, Daniel Corbe wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> We’re currently managing VMs across approximately 26 physical hosts. We tend to migrate VMs around a lot to do things like spread load and keep VMs running when physical hosts are in need of package updates.
>
> Suffice it to say sometimes finding out which physical host a VM is currently running on can be a pain.
>
> Anyone know of an open source tool that will give me a snapshot of what’s running where across a list of physical hosts? Doesn’t have to be anything fancy. A command-line utility will do.
>
> Best,
> Daniel
>
>
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