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Henrique,

You should check out Gantt project [1], it could be exactly the place to
implement such features. It is a generic cross-project Scheduler as a
Service forked from Nova recently.

[1] https://github.com/openstack/gantt

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Best regards,
Oleg Gelbukh
Mirantis Labs


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Henrique Truta <henriquecostatruta at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello, everyone!
>
> I am currently a graduate student and member of a group of contributors to
> OpenStack. We believe that a dynamic scheduler could improve the efficiency
> of an OpenStack cloud, either by rebalancing nodes to maximize performance
> or to minimize the number of active hosts, in order to minimize energy
> costs. Therefore, we would like to propose a dynamic scheduling mechanism
> to Nova. The main idea is using the Ceilometer information (e.g. RAM, CPU,
> disk usage) through the ceilometer-client and dinamically decide whether a
> instance should be live migrated.
>
> This might me done as a Nova periodic task, which will be executed every
> once in a given period or as a new independent project. In both cases, the
> current Nova scheduler will not be affected, since this new scheduler will
> be pluggable. We have done a search and found no such initiative in the
> OpenStack BPs. Outside the community, we found only a recent IBM
> announcement for a similiar feature in one of its cloud products.
>
> A possible flow is: In the new scheduler, we periodically make a call to
> Nova, get the instance list from a specific host and, for each instance, we
> make a call to the ceilometer-client (e.g. $ ceilometer statistics -m
> cpu_util -q resource=$INSTANCE_ID) and then, according to some specific
> parameters configured by the user, analyze the meters and do the proper
> migrations.
>
> Do you have any comments or suggestions?
>
> --
> Ítalo Henrique Costa Truta
>
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