Hi Andrew and all!
> On 05 Jan 2015, at 22:05, Andrew Woodward <xar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Bartosz Kupidura > <bkupid...@mirantis.com> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> Im working on Zabbix implementation which include HA support. >> >> Zabbix server should be deployed on all controllers in HA mode. > > This needs to be discouraged as much as putting mongo-db on the controllers. We know that, and we can use UI warning for that. For the reasons Mike provided our users need it. > > >> When zabbix component is enabled, we will install zabbix-server on all >> controllers >> in active-backup mode (pacemaker+haproxy). > > Again, not forced on controllers, this is very bad. > > > Controllers: > > While there is development use cases to deploy monitoring on combined > controllers, and it can make use of the already existing pacemaker > cluster, this is the wrong direction to point users. There are many > reasons this is bad: for one, monitoring can become quite loaded, and > as we've seen secondary load on the controllers can collapse the > entire control plane. Secondly running monitoring on the cluster may > also result in the monitoring going offline if the cluster does, from > my own experience, not being able to see your monitoring is nearly > worse than having everything down and leads to lost precious moments > of downtime SLA. > > HA Scaling: > > Just like with controllers, our other HA components need to support a > scale of 1 to N. This is important as a cluster will need to scale, or > as the operator moves from POC to Production, they can deploy more > hardware. This also helps alleviate some of the not enough nodes > issues mentioned in the thread already Your concenrs are 100% valid and I agree with them. But what about small instalaltions, where only 4 physical machines are available? We are already wasting one for Fuel node, and 3 for controllers. There is hardware with similar setup and it seems to be very popular. This is what we are trying to address. Regards, -- Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala Sr. OpenStack Engineer tnapier...@mirantis.com _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev