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<div>Gary,</div>
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<div>This is a very interesting feature. I have a question on where the definition of ensembles will reside. It seems from the linked document that the definition of ensemble membership will only reside in Heat.</div>
<div>However, I would think that generic grouping capabilities in Nova would be useful (e.g. to boot a group of VM). I can see that many of such group operations might require the type of scheduling that is available in Heat, but I would prefer that the basic
notion of VM group be implemented in Nova, with the right scheduling support, so that it can be available without having Heat deployed and can also be exposed in Horizon more easily.</div>
<div>This could be implemented in a way similar to the host aggregates.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>JC</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Gary Kotton <<a href="mailto:gkotton@redhat.com">gkotton@redhat.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Organization: </span>Red Hat<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span><<a href="mailto:gkotton@redhat.com">gkotton@redhat.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:27:20 +0200<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[openstack-dev] [Scheduler] New scheduler feature - VM Ensembles<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Hi,<span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal;
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<font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The link
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bAMtkaIFn4ZSMqqsXjs_riXofuRvApa--qo4UTwsmhw/edit" target="_blank">
https://docs.google.com/<wbr>document/d/<wbr>1bAMtkaIFn4ZSMqqsXjs_<wbr>riXofuRvApa--qo4UTwsmhw/edit</a> introduces the concept of a VM ensemble or VM group into Nova. An ensemble will provide the tenant the ability to group together VMs that provide a certain
service or part of the same application. More specifically it enables configuring scheduling policies per group. This will in turn allow for a more robust and resilient service. Specifically, it will allow a tenant to deploy a multi-VM application that is
designed for VM fault tolerance in a way that application availability is actually resilient to physical host failure.
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<font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Any inputs and comments will be greatly appreciated.</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Thanks</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Gary</font><br>
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