If RAM is your most precious resource , as our at Mercadolibre, you can try our inhouse moded RAM scheduler : <a href="http://forums.openstack.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=579">http://forums.openstack.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=579</a><div>
<br></div><div>Regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Michael J Fork <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjfork@us.ibm.com">mjfork@us.ibm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font face="sans-serif">I was able to get it to work by downloading
the hardware.py file to site-packages/nova/scheduler/hardware.py and setting
the scheduler_driver in nova.conf</font>
<br>
<br><font face="sans-serif">--scheduler_driver=nova.scheduler.hardware.HardwareScheduler</font>
<br><font face="sans-serif"><br>
Michael<br>
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Michael Fork<br>
Cloud Architect, Emerging Solutions<br>
IBM Systems & Technology Group</font>
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<br><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">From:      
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<br><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">Date:      
 </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">01/18/2012 12:28 PM</font>
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   </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Re: [Openstack-operators]
set max number of instances per compute node</font>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
What options would I need to set in nova.conf to change the scheduler to
this?<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
John O'Loughlin<br>
FEPS IT, Service Delivery Team Leader<br>
________________________________________<br>
From: Diego Parrilla Santamarķa [<a href="mailto:diego.parrilla.santamaria@gmail.com" target="_blank">diego.parrilla.santamaria@gmail.com</a>]<br>
Sent: 18 January 2012 16:50<br>
To: O'Loughlin JF Mr (FEPS Faculty Admin)<br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:fifieldt@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">fifieldt@unimelb.edu.au</a>; <a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] set max number of instances per compute
node<br>
<br>
Everett Toews wrote something really sexy a couple of months ago:<br>
<br>
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<br>
May be you can give it good use!<br>
<br>
--<br>
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wrote:<br>
<br>
Are there any docs on configuring the various schedulers? I'm  putting
together a test cloud, and have a variety of different servers.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
John O'Loughlin<br>
FEPS IT, Service Delivery Team Leader<br>
________________________________________<br>
From: Diego Parrilla Santamarķa [<a href="mailto:diego.parrilla.santamaria@gmail.com" target="_blank">diego.parrilla.santamaria@gmail.com</a><</font></tt><a href="mailto:diego.parrilla.santamaria@gmail.com" target="_blank"><tt><font>mailto:diego.parrilla.santamaria@gmail.com</font></tt></a><tt><font>>]<br>

Sent: 18 January 2012 16:28<br>
To: O'Loughlin JF Mr (FEPS Faculty Admin)<br>
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Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] set max number of instances per compute
node<br>
<br>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this parameter is used by the SimpleScheduler,
so it must be in the configuration file used by nova-scheduler.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Diego<br>
<br>
--<br>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:57 PM, <<a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">J.O'Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</a><</font></tt><a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank"><tt><font>mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</font></tt></a><tt><font>><</font></tt><a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank"><tt><font>mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</font></tt></a><tt><font><</font></tt><a href="mailto:J.O%2527Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank"><tt><font>mailto:J.O%2527Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</font></tt></a><tt><font>>>>
wrote:<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
I added this as an option to nova.conf on one of my compute nodes and doesn't
work. Does it need to be set on the scheduler host? if so, is it possible
to set different values for different compute hosts?<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
John O'Loughlin<br>
FEPS IT, Service Delivery Team Leader<br>
________________________________________<br>
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Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] set max number of instances per compute
node<br>
<br>
</font></tt><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/reference-for-flags-in-nova-conf.html" target="_blank"><tt><font>http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/reference-for-flags-in-nova-conf.html</font></tt></a><tt><font><br>

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--max_cores     default: '16'   Integer value; Maximum number
of instance<br>
cores to allow per compute host.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
<br>
On 18/01/12 23:05, <a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">J.O'Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</a><</font></tt><a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank"><tt><font>mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</font></tt></a><tt><font>><</font></tt><a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank"><tt><font>mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</font></tt></a><tt><font><</font></tt><a href="mailto:J.O%2527Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank"><tt><font>mailto:J.O%2527Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</font></tt></a><tt><font>>>
wrote:<br>
><br>
> All,<br>
><br>
> is there a way to set the maximum number of instances or cores that
can be used on a compute node? (similar to the max_cores option in eucalyptus)<br>
><br>
> I'm running diablo.<br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
><br>
> John O'Loughlin<br>
> FEPS IT, Service Delivery Team Leader<br>
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