This seems to overlap heavily with justin's metadata stuff. The idea was that you could pass in metadata on instance launch saying near: other-object. I think that is far more useful than an opaque affinity id.
Vish On Feb 28, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Gabe Westmaas wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I probably chose a poor word there, this is actually referring to something > smaller than the multicluster zones that Sandy has been working on. For > example, in case for some performance reasons you wanted two servers with as > few network hops as possible. If that still lines up with what you are > talking about, great. > > Sorry about that! > > Gabe > > On Monday, February 28, 2011 4:57pm, "Eric Day" <e...@oddments.org> said: > >> Hi Gabe, >> >> There has been a lot of discussion about this, along with zone naming, >> structure, and so forth. I was propsing we not only make it part of >> Nova, but suggest all projects use the same locality zone names/tags >> to ensure cross-project locality. >> >> So, "yes", and don't make it nova-specific. :) >> >> -Eric >> >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:48:25PM -0500, Gabe Westmaas wrote: >>> Hey All, >>> >>> For various reasons, Rackspace has a need to allow customers to request >>> placement >>> in the same zone as another server. I am trying to figure out if this is >>> generically useful, or something that should be outside of core. The idea >>> is >>> that if you don't specify an affinity ID one will get returned to you when >>> you >>> create the server, and you can use that ID to add additional servers in >>> close >>> proximity to the first. >>> >>> What do you think? Is this useful enough outside Rackspace to be in core? >>> Alternatively, we can write it as an extension so as not to clutter core. >>> >>> Gabe >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
