Cheers Gao. So my only comment here is how complex and how many attributes are 
we expecting the scheduler to take as input. Similarly the more variables you 
schedule on the more complex the beast becomes and from experience you end up 
having cross dependencies.

I can see power be an item of concern but don't you think that we could solve 
that one with Nova Cells Parent being aware of the Power consumption costs at 
"time-T" and then just forward the Nova API call to the appropriate Child which 
has say the least power consumption cost?

Also, on a priority scale, some DC providers (speaking as one of the DC 
Providers here) will not have power cost on their top say 5 list for 
scheduling. So I agree its definitely interesting but if you consider 
scheduling inside a large DC in the same geographical region and Dc site, 
Scheduling for power consumption becomes null and void. ;-(

BR
Alan



From: Gao, Fengqian [mailto:fengqian....@intel.com]
Sent: December-19-13 11:10 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Ironic] Get power and temperature via IPMI

Yes, Alan, you got me.
Providing power/temperature to scheduler, set threshold or different weight, 
then the scheduler can boot VM on the most suitable node.

Thanks

--fengqian

From: Alan Kavanagh [mailto:alan.kavan...@ericsson.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 11:58 AM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Ironic] Get power and temperature via IPMI

Cheers Gao

It definitely makes sense to collect additional metrics such as power and 
temperature, and make that available for selective decisions you would want to 
take. However, I am just wondering if you could realistically feed those 
metrics as variables for scheduling, this is the main part I feel is 
questionable. I assume then you would use temperature &|| power etc to gauge if 
you want to schedule another VM on a given node when a given temperature 
threshold is reached. Is this the main case you are thinking of Gao?

Alan

From: Gao, Fengqian [mailto:fengqian....@intel.com]
Sent: December-18-13 10:23 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Ironic] Get power and temperature via IPMI

Hi, Alan,
I think, for nova-scheduler it is better if we gather more information.  And In 
today's DC, power and temperature are very important facts to considering.
CPU/Memory utilization is not enough to describe nodes' status. Power/inlet 
temperature should be noticed.

Best Wishes

--fengqian

From: Alan Kavanagh [mailto:alan.kavan...@ericsson.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:14 AM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Ironic] Get power and temperature via IPMI

Hi Gao

What is the reason why you see it would be important to have these two 
additional metrics "power and temperature" for Nova to base scheduling on?

Alan

From: Gao, Fengqian [mailto:fengqian....@intel.com]
Sent: December-18-13 1:00 AM
To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>
Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Ironic] Get power and temperature via IPMI

Hi, all,
I am planning to extend bp 
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/utilization-aware-scheduling with 
power and temperature. In other words, power and temperature can be collected 
and used for nova-scheduler just as CPU utilization.
I have a question here. As you know, IPMI is used to get power and temperature 
and baremetal implements IPMI functions in Nova. But baremetal driver is being 
split out of nova, so if I want to change something to the IPMI, which part 
should I choose now? Nova or Ironic?


Best wishes

--fengqian

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