Looking at tag aware scheduling that sounds like it could solve our problems. 
Thank you for the help.

From: user@storm.apache.org At: 02/08/18 11:42:15To:  user@storm.apache.org
Cc:  Mitchell Rathbun (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX ) 
Subject: Re: Limiting Available Machines for Topology

Placement is all done by the scheduler.  The default schedulers do not have the 
capability.  They just try to spread things round robin around the cluster.  
This works well for small clusters that are built for a very specific purpose.  
Not so well for large clusters.  I have not used tag aware scheduling but it 
looks like it works and there are people using it in production.  

Resource Aware Scheduling is not going to work to force your topology to be run 
on a very specific node.  It has the option of accepting a hint for which 
node(s) you want and which you don't.  But those are just hints.  We also 
recently added in generic resources so you could define your own resources and 
use that like tags.  Generic resources is still a work in progress.  We are 
starting to roll it out to production, but we have not even updated the UI to 
show the generic resources, so there may still be some bugs in it and it needs 
more polish.

The big thing to be careful of with what you are trying to do is fault 
tolerance and failure domains.  If there is really one and only one node that 
your topology will work on if that node goes down you are done for.  Similarly 
for one and only one rack.

- Bobby

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:55 PM Arnaud BOS <arnaud.t...@gmail.com> wrote:

I **guess** you could use the “tag-aware scheduling” described here:  
https://inside.edited.com/taking-control-of-your-apache-storm-cluster-with-tag-aware-scheduling-b60aaaa5e37e
Or maybe bend the "resource aware scheduler" presented here: 
https://storm.apache.org/releases/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/Resource_Aware_Scheduler_overview.html
 to do what you want, but that sounds hackish.
Anyways, I've never used any of them so I'm just sending the links for further 
reading.
Hope this helps.
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018, 12:12 AM Mitchell Rathbun (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX) 
<mrathb...@bloomberg.net> wrote:

Given a multiple node Storm cluster, is it possible to ensure that a topology 
submitted on a specific machine runs only on that machine? More specifically, 
given a cluster of machines A, B, and C, if a topology is submitted from 
machine A, is there a way to guarantee that:

-The topology runs on machine A.
-If machine A crashes, the topology is not re-run on another machine.

I am guessing there isn't and that the answer to this is to run a leader nimbus 
per machine (nimbus.seeds: ["localhost"]), but I wanted to see if there was a 
way to do this that I am missing.


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