[openstack-dev] Dynamic VM Consolidation Agent as part of Nova

Mehdi Sheikhalishahi mehdi.alishahi at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 08:13:20 UTC 2014


Where do you suggest as the best place for such a service?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Mehdi Sheikhalishahi <
> mehdi.alishahi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to bring Dynamic VM Consolidation capability into Nova. That
>> is I would like to check compute nodes status periodically (let's say every
>> 15 minutes) and consolidate VMs if there is any opportunity to turn off
>> some compute nodes.
>>
>> Any hints on how to get into this development process as part of nova?
>>
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> While I like the idea of having dynamic VM consolidation capabilities
> somewhere in OpenStack, it doesn't belongs in Nova. This service should
> live outside of Nova and just consume Nova's REST APIs. If there is some
> piece of information that this service would need that isn't made available
> via the REST API, we can fix that.
>
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>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mehdi
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