Shelving servers

Shelving is useful if you have a server that you are not using, but would like to retain in your list of servers. For example, you can shelve a server at the end of a work week, and resume work again at the start of the next week. All associated data and resources are kept; however, anything still in memory is not retained. If a shelved server is no longer needed, it can also be entirely removed.

You can run the following shelving tasks:

• Shelve a server - Shuts down the server, and stores it together with associated data and resources (a snapshot is taken if not volume backed). Anything in memory is lost.
  • Using the actions menu on the "List Servers" view.
    
    
    
  • Or using the CLI tools.
    $ openstack server shelve SERVERNAME

• Unshelve a server - Restores the server.
  • Using the actions menu on the "List Servers" view.
    
  • or using the CLI tools.
    $ openstack server unshelve SERVERNAME

• Remove a shelved server - Removes the server; data and resource associations are deleted. If a server is no longer needed, you can move the server off the hypervisor in order to minimize resource usage.
  • $ nova shelve-offload SERVERNAME

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