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

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 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 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 Armando Migliaccio
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya vishvana...@gmail.com 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

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

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

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 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

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

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