[openstack-dev] [blazar]: proposal for a new lease type

Lisa lisa.zangrando at pd.infn.it
Fri Oct 31 15:19:54 UTC 2014


Hi Nikolay,

many thanks.
Cheers,
Lisa

On 31/10/2014 14:10, Nikolay Starodubtsev wrote:
> Hi Lisa, Sylvain,
> I'll take a look at blueprint next week and will try to left some 
> feedback about it.
> Stay tuned.
>
> *__*
>
> Nikolay Starodubtsev
>
> Software Engineer
>
> Mirantis Inc.
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> 2014-10-31 16:14 GMT+04:00 Lisa <lisa.zangrando at pd.infn.it 
> <mailto:lisa.zangrando at pd.infn.it>>:
>
>     Hi Sylvain,
>
>     thanks for your answer.
>     Actually we haven't yet developed that because we'd like to be
>     sure that our proposal is fine with BLAZAR.
>     We already implemented a pluggable advanced scheduler for Nova
>     which addresses the issues we are experiencing with OpenStack in
>     the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics. This scheduler
>     named FairShareScheduler is able to make OpenStack more efficient
>     and flexible in terms of resource usage. Of course we wish to
>     integrate our work in OpenStack and so we tried several times to
>     start a discussion and a possible interaction with the OpenStack
>     developers, but it seems to be so difficult to do it.
>     The GANTT people suggested us to refer to BLAZAR because it may
>     have more affinity with our scope. Is it so? Therefore, I would
>     appreciate to know if you may be interested in our proposal.
>
>     Thanks for your attention.
>     Cheers,
>     Lisa
>
>
>       Such component's name is FairShareScheduler and
>
>
>     On 31/10/2014 10:08, Sylvain Bauza wrote:
>>
>>     Le 31/10/2014 09:46, Lisa a écrit :
>>>     Dear Sylvain and BLAZAR team,
>>>
>>>     I'd like to receive your feedback on our blueprint
>>>     (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blazar/+spec/fair-share-lease)
>>>     and start a discussion in Paris the next week at the OpenStack
>>>     Summit. Do you have a time slot for a very short meeting on this?
>>>     Thanks in advance.
>>>     Cheers,
>>>     Lisa
>>>
>>
>>     Hi Lisa,
>>
>>     At the moment, I'm quite occupied on Nova to split out the
>>     scheduler, so I can't hardly dedicate time for Blazar. That said,
>>     I would appreciate if you could propose some draft implementation
>>     attached to the blueprint, so I could glance at it and see what
>>     you aim to deliver.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     -Sylvain
>>>
>>>     On 28/10/2014 12:07, Lisa wrote:
>>>>     Dear Sylvain,
>>>>
>>>>     as you suggested me few weeks ago, I created the blueprint
>>>>     (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blazar/+spec/fair-share-lease) and
>>>>     I'd like to start a discussion.
>>>>     I will be in Paris the next week at the OpenStack Summit, so it
>>>>     would be nice to talk with you and the BLAZAR team about my
>>>>     proposal in person.
>>>>     What do you think?
>>>>
>>>>     thanks in advance,
>>>>     Cheers,
>>>>     Lisa
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On 18/09/2014 16:00, Sylvain Bauza wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Le 18/09/2014 15:27, Lisa a écrit :
>>>>>>     Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     my name is Lisa Zangrando and I work at the Italian National
>>>>>>     Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). In particular I am
>>>>>>     leading a team which is addressing the issue concerning the
>>>>>>     efficiency in the resource usage in OpenStack.
>>>>>>     Currently OpenStack allows just a static partitioning model
>>>>>>     where the resource allocation to the user teams (i.e. the
>>>>>>     projects) can be done only by considering fixed quotas which
>>>>>>     cannot be exceeded even if there are unused resources (but)
>>>>>>     assigned to different projects.
>>>>>>     We studied the available BLAZAR's documentation and, in
>>>>>>     agreement with Tim Bell (who is responsible the OpenStack
>>>>>>     cloud project at CERN), we think this issue could be
>>>>>>     addressed within your framework.
>>>>>>     Please find attached a document that describes our use cases
>>>>>>     (actually we think that many other environments have to deal
>>>>>>     with the same problems) and how they could be managed in
>>>>>>     BLAZAR, by defining a new lease type (i.e. fairShare lease)
>>>>>>     to be considered as extension of the list of the already
>>>>>>     supported lease types.
>>>>>>     I would then be happy to discuss these ideas with you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Thanks in advance,
>>>>>>     Lisa
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     Hi Lisa,
>>>>>
>>>>>     Glad to see you're interested in Blazar.
>>>>>
>>>>>     I tried to go thru your proposal, but could you please post
>>>>>     the main concepts of what you plan to add into an etherpad and
>>>>>     create a blueprint [1] mapped to it so we could discuss on the
>>>>>     implementation ?
>>>>>     Of course, don't hesitate to ping me or the blazar community
>>>>>     in #openstack-blazar if you need help with the process or the
>>>>>     current Blazar design.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>>     -Sylvain
>>>>>
>>>>>     [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blazar/
>>>>>
>>>>>>
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