[openstack-dev] cinder metrics with nova-scheduler

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Fri Nov 8 14:18:25 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Abbass MAROUNI
<abbass.marouni at virtualscale.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We want to be able to launch a VM with a number of cinder volumes on the
> same host (the host is a compute and a storage node).
> We're looking for a way to tell nova-scheduler to work with cinder-scheduler
> so that we can filter and weight hosts according to our needs.
>
> According to the documentation on nova-scheduler filters :
>
> DiskFilter : Only schedule instances on hosts if there are sufficient Disk
> available for ephemeral storage.
>
> Is there any implementation of a filter to check the persistence storage on
> a host ?
> Do you think that this feature is doable ?
>
> Best Regards,
>
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Hello Abbass,

Currently there is not a way to do this, however your request is very
timely as we just discussed this very use case at the summit today and
do have plans to work on it for the Icehouse release.

John



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