[jira] [Commented] (CLOUDSTACK-4505) expungeDestroyedVirtualMachine API call

["Wido den Hollander (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Wido den Hollander commented on CLOUDSTACK-4505:
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This is already closed, but I also see a Use Case if Users could do this. We could make this a setting so that per Domain/Account we can grant users the ability to Expunge their Instance?

> expungeDestroyedVirtualMachine API call
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-4505
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4505
>             Project: CloudStack
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>      Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the default.) 
>          Components: API
>    Affects Versions: 4.2.0
>            Reporter: David Matteson
>            Assignee: Wei Zhou
>             Fix For: 4.3.0
>
>
> We want to provide users a long recovery time before expunging their VMs automatically. Recovery is a great feature. But the problem is that users cannot deploy a new VM with the same hostname or IP address as a Destroyed VM which has not yet been expunged.
> So it would be great to have an API call that lets users say "No I really don't want to recover that VM, please delete it so I can deploy a new one."
> expungeDestroyedVirtualMachine would be called with a single vmid to specify which Destroyed VM should be cleared, and of course it would only work on a VM which is in Destroyed state already.



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