[Openstack][cinder] scheduler filters

Ignazio Cassano ignaziocassano at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 17:39:44 UTC 2021


Many thanks , Sofia.
It is exactly what I want to test.
Ignazio


Il Lun 15 Nov 2021, 18:34 Sofia Enriquez <senrique at redhat.com> ha scritto:

> Greetings,
> > probably I must use the same backend name for both  and a cinder type
> associated to it and the scheduler will use the backend with more space
> available ?
> I'm not familiar with your deployment but there's a example in the
> documentation that I think It may help you:
>
> In a multiple-storage back-end configuration, each back end has a name (
> volume_backend_name). Several back ends can have the same name. In that
> case, the scheduler properly decides which back end the volume has to be
> created in. i.e [1] In this configuration, lvmdriver-1 and lvmdriver-2
> have the same volume_backend_name. If a volume creation requests the LVM
> back end name, the scheduler uses the capacity filter scheduler to choose
> the most suitable driver, which is either lvmdriver-1 or lvmdriver-2. The
> capacity filter scheduler is enabled by default. The next section provides
> more information. In addition, this example presents a lvmdriver-3 back
> end.
>
> Cheers,
> Sofia
> [1]
> https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/xena/admin/blockstorage-multi-backend.html
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 4:25 PM Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello again, probably I must use the same backend name for both  and a
>> cinder type associated to it and the scheduler will use the backend with
>> more space available ?
>> Ignazio
>>
>> Il Gio 11 Nov 2021, 20:00 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com> ha
>> scritto:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>> I read that capacity filters for cinder is the default, so, if I
>>> understood well, a volume is placed on the backend where more space is
>>> available.
>>> Since my two backends are on storage with same features, I wonder if I
>>> must specify a default storage backend in cinder.conf or not.
>>> Must I create a cinder volume without cinder type and scheduler evaluate
>>> where there is more space available?
>>> Thanks
>>> Ignazio
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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