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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:33 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk">J.O'Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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Are there any docs on configuring the various schedulers? I'm  putting together a test cloud, and have a variety of different servers.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Regards<br>
<br>
John O'Loughlin<br>
FEPS IT, Service Delivery Team Leader<br>
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</div>From: Diego Parrilla Santamarķa [<a href="mailto:diego.parrilla.santamaria@gmail.com">diego.parrilla.santamaria@gmail.com</a>]<br>
Sent: 18 January 2012 16:28<br>
To: O'Loughlin JF Mr (FEPS Faculty Admin)<br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:fifieldt@unimelb.edu.au">fifieldt@unimelb.edu.au</a>; <a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<div class="im">Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] set max number of instances per compute node<br>
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</div><div class="im">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>
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Cheers<br>
Diego<br>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:57 PM, <<a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk">J.O'Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:J.O%2527Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk">J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>


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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>
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<div class="im">Sent: 18 January 2012 12:53<br>
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<div class="im">Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] set max number of instances per compute node<br>
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<a href="http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/reference-for-flags-in-nova-conf.html" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/reference-for-flags-in-nova-conf.html</a><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>
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</div><div class="im">On 18/01/12 23:05, <a href="mailto:J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk">J.O'Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:J.O%2527Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk">J.O%27Loughlin@surrey.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>


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> 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>
> _______________________________________________<br>
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