[openstack-dev] [nova] Reducing quota below utilisation

Ravi Jagannathan reagul.2007 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 18:31:20 UTC 2014


so some questions

- how can we decide ( identify ) if the VM to delete  can indeed be deleted
- Can we better enforce quota per app / cluster level
- This delete from older VM can only  work if these are individual VM
operating only to support work loads ( and not as standalone apps ) ?


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

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> We have some projects which are dynamically creating VMs up to their
> quota. Under some circumstances, as cloud administrators, we would like
> these projects to shrink and make room for other higher priority work.
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> We had investigated setting the project quota below the current
> utilisation (i.e. effectively delete only, no create). This will eventually
> match the desired level of VMs as the dynamic workload leads to old VMs
> being deleted and new ones cannot be created.
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> However, OpenStack does not allow a quota to be set to below the current
> usage.
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> This seems a little restrictive … any thoughts from others ?
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> Tim
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