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Forgot to put openstack-tc@ in the loop... Sorry for resending this email.

-Sylvain

Le 03/03/2014 13:42, Sylvain Bauza a écrit :
> Hi Joe,
>
> Thanks for your reply, I'll try to further explain.
>
>
> Le 03/03/2014 05:33, Joe Gordon a écrit :
>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Dina Belova <dbelova at mirantis.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hello, folks!
>>>
>>> I'd like to request Climate project review for incubation. Here is 
>>> official
>>> incubation application:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Climate/Incubation
>> I'm unclear on what Climate is trying to solve. I read the 'Detailed
>> Description' from the link above, and it states Climate is trying to
>> solve two uses cases (and the more generalized cases of those).
>>
>> 1) Compute host reservation (when user with admin privileges can
>> reserve hardware resources that are dedicated to the sole use of a
>> tenant)
>> 2) Virtual machine (instance) reservation (when user may ask
>> reservation service to provide him working VM not necessary now, but
>> also in the future)
> Climate is born from the idea of dedicating compute resources to a 
> single tenant or user for a certain amount of time, which was not yet 
> implemented in Nova: how as an user, can I ask Nova for one compute 
> host with certain specs to be exclusively allocated to my needs, 
> starting in 2 days and being freed in 5 days ?
>
> Albeit the exclusive resource lock can be managed on the Nova side, 
> there is currently no possibilities to ensure resource planner.
>
> Of course, and that’s why we think Climate can also stand by its own 
> Program, resource reservation can be seen on a more general way : what 
> about reserving an Heat stack with its volume and network nested 
> resources ?
>
>> You want to support being able to reserve an instance in the future.
>> As a cloud operator how do I take advantage of that information? As a
>> cloud consumer, what is the benefit? Today OpenStack supports both
>> uses cases, except it can't request an Instance for the future.
>
> Again, that’s not only reserving an instance, but rather a complex mix 
> of resources. At the moment, we do provide way to reserve virtual 
> instances by shelving/unshelving them at the lease start, but we also 
> give possibility to provide dedicated compute hosts. Considering it, 
> the logic of resource allocation and scheduling (take the word as 
> resource planner, in order not to confuse with Nova’s scheduler 
> concerns) and capacity planning is too big to fail under the Compute’s 
> umbrella, as it has been agreed within the Summit talks and periodical 
> threads.
>
> From the user standpoint, there are multiple ways to integrate with 
> Climate in order to get Capacity Planning capabilities. As you perhaps 
> noticed, the workflow for reserving resources is different from one 
> plugin to another. Either we say the user has to explicitly request 
> for dedicated resources (using Climate CLI, see dedicate compute hosts 
> allocation), or we implicitly integrate resource allocation from the 
> Nova API (see virtual instance API hook).
>
> We truly accept our current implementation as a first prototype, where 
> scheduling decisions can be improved (possibly thanks to some tight 
> integration with a future external Scheduler aaS, hello Gantt), where 
> also resource isolation and preemption must also be integrated with 
> subprojects (we’re currently seeing how to provision Cinder volumes 
> and Neutron routers and nets), but anyway we still think there is a 
> (IMHO big) room for resource and capacity management on its own project.
>
> Hoping it's clearer now,
> -Sylvain
>
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