Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-03 Thread Armando Migliaccio
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > > On Apr 3, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Day, Phil wrote: > > Hi John, > > Maybe the problem with host aggregates is that it too quickly became > something that was linked to hypervisor capability, rather than being the > more general mechanism of w

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-03 Thread John Purrier
Ishaya Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:11 PM To: Day, Phil Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net; John Garbutt Subject: Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts On Apr 3, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Day, Phil wrote: Hi John, Maybe the problem with host aggregates is that it too quickly became

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-03 Thread John Garbutt
...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 April 2012 19:11 To: Day, Phil Cc: John Garbutt; Jan Drake; Lorin Hochstein; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts On Apr 3, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Day, Phil wrote: Hi John, Maybe the problem with host aggregates is that it too

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-03 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
On Apr 3, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Day, Phil wrote: > Hi John, > > Maybe the problem with host aggregates is that it too quickly became > something that was linked to hypervisor capability, rather than being the > more general mechanism of which one form of aggregate could be linked to > hypervisor

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-03 Thread Day, Phil
: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts If I understand this correctly, the motivation is to be able to provide a hint to schedulers on host-level appropriateness based on information external to that found in the hyperviser. Right/Wrong/Close? It would help to have a real-world example of

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Lorin Hochstein
Jan: Here are two use cases from when I was at ISI. In both cases, we wanted access to a machine with customized hardware to improve performance of certain applications: 1. GPUs. We wanted the users to be able to specify request a host that had GPU cards so they could run GPU-accelarated apps

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Jan Drake
If I understand this correctly, the motivation is to be able to provide a hint to schedulers on host-level appropriateness based on information external to that found in the hyperviser. Right/Wrong/Close? It would help to have a real-world example of where basic host resource evalution for s

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Lorin Hochstein
Just created a blueprint for this: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/host-capabilities-api Take care, Lorin -- Lorin Hochstein Lead Architect - Cloud Services Nimbis Services, Inc. www.nimbisservices.com On Apr 2, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > Can I add a feature request

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Ed_Conzel
+1 -Original Message- From: openstack-bounces+ed_conzel=dell@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+ed_conzel=dell@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Jay Pipes Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 2:29 PM To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Jay Pipes
Can I add a feature request to the below thoughtstream? Can we make it so that the management of these things can be done outside of config files? i.e. via a REST API with some simple middleware exposing the particular scheduler nodes' understanding of which capabilities/filters it is using to

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Lorin Hochstein
Phil: I don't know of a way to do this in Essex. However, when I was working at ISI, we added a configuration option called "extra_node_capabilities" that allows you to specify the capabilities of a particular host in the /etc/nova/nova.conf, and these capabilities are checked against the extr

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Behrens
I have some plans for being able to set arbitrary "capabilities" for hosts via nova.conf that you can use to build scheduler filters. Right now, there are capabilities, but I believe we're only creating these from hypervisor stats. You can filter on those today. What I'm planning on adding is

[Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Day, Phil
Hi Folks, I'm looking for a capability to limit some flavours to some hosts. I want the mapping to be as flexible as possible, and work within a zone/cell (I don't want to add zones just to get this mapping).For example I want to express something like: Host_1 supports flavours A, C Host