Power on a terminated instance

Terminate deletes the instance permanently. If you have an instance that exists but is not running you should be able to use euca-reboot-instances

On Jul 28, 2011, at 1:21 PM, HP wrote:

> New question #166294 on OpenStack Compute (nova):
> https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/166294
>
> How to power on a previously terminated instance?
> Example: I have a running instance i-00000001, I terminate it by calling *euca-terminate-instances i-00000001*
> Now that instance's data still remain in the database (mysql/nova), and I want to boot it again without having to use any image to create a new instance.
> If I use euca-run-instance, I would have to provide an image id and that would create a new instance, not the one I terminated before.
> Would much appreciate if you answer this question for both ec2-api and openstack api.
> Thanks
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Thanks. How do I power off an instance using Openstack API or ec2 API?
Of course one can shutdown the instance manually through ssh, but I am interested in getting this done through API, like some services that server can automatically handle.

There isn't a command in the api to power off. In the OS admin api there is pause or suspend which are close.

Vish

On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:35 PM, HP wrote:

> Question #166294 on OpenStack Compute (nova) changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/166294
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> HP is still having a problem:
> Thanks. How do I power off an instance using Openstack API or ec2 API?
> Of course one can shutdown the instance manually through ssh, but I am interested in getting this done through API, like some services that server can automatically handle.
>
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> You received this question notification because you are a member of Nova
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You can use os-start action in nova compute

method: POST
url: http://192.168.1.10:8774/v2/<tenant_id>/servers/<server_id>/action

body:

{
  "os-start":{}
}