[openstack-dev] [cinder] Volume metering in nova

Doug Hellmann doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com
Fri Aug 3 13:30:03 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > It seems we want all volumes, but we also want to know for each if it is
> attached (and possibly where). Does cinder have that information? If so,
> cinder could publish notifications similar to 'compute.instance.exists'
> which ceilometer could consume.
> >
> > Doug
>
>
> Yes, cinder has a status and an instance_uuid when it is attached
>

That should do it, then. It would be good for the notification to include
any other interesting metadata about the volume, too. Ceilometer collects
the metadata so consumers of the metrics can use it to choose billing rules.

Doug
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