[openstack-dev] [Horizon] [Cinder] [Nova] [Neutron] Gathering quota usage data in Horizon

Timur Sufiev tsufiev at mirantis.com
Wed Dec 23 08:50:24 UTC 2015


Duncan,

Thank you for the suggestion, will do.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 at 10:55, Duncan Thomas <duncan.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On a cloud with a large number of tenants, this is going to involve a
> large number of API calls. I'd suggest you put a spec into cinder to add an
> API call for getting the totals straight out of the DB - it should be easy
> enough to add.
>
> On 18 December 2015 at 20:35, Timur Sufiev <tsufiev at mirantis.com> wrote:
>
>> Matt,
>>
>> actually Ivan (Ivan, thanks a lot!) showed me the exact cinderclient call
>> that I needed. Now I know how to retrieve Cinder quota usage info
>> per-tenant, seems that to retrieve the same info cloud-wide I should sum up
>> all the available tenant usages.
>>
>> With Cinder quota usages being sorted out, my next goal is Nova and
>> Neutron. As for Neutron, there are plenty of quota-related calls I'm going
>> to play with next week, perhaps there is something suitable for my use
>> case. But as for Nova, I haven't found something similar to 'usage' of
>> cinderclient call, so help from someone familiar with Nova is very
>> appreciated :).
>>
>> [0]
>> https://github.com/openstack/python-cinderclient/blob/master/cinderclient/v2/quotas.py#L36
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:17 PM Matt Riedemann <
>> mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/17/2015 2:40 PM, Ivan Kolodyazhny wrote:
>>> > Hi Timur,
>>> >
>>> > Did you try this Cinder API [1]?  Here [2] is cinderclient output.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [1]
>>> >
>>> https://github.com/openstack/python-cinderclient/blob/master/cinderclient/v2/quotas.py#L33
>>> > [2] http://paste.openstack.org/show/482225/
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Ivan Kolodyazhny,
>>> > http://blog.e0ne.info/
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Timur Sufiev <tsufiev at mirantis.com
>>> > <mailto:tsufiev at mirantis.com>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     Hello, folks!
>>> >
>>> >     I'd like to initiate a discussion of the feature request I'm going
>>> >     to make on behalf of Horizon to every core OpenStack service which
>>> >     supports Quota feature, namely Cinder, Nova and Neutron.
>>> >
>>> >     Although all three services' APIs support special calls to get
>>> >     current quota limitations (Nova and Cinder allows to get and update
>>> >     both per-tenant and default cloud-wide limitations, Neutron allows
>>> >     to do it only for per-tenant limitations), there is no special call
>>> >     in any of these services to get current per-tenant usage of quota.
>>> >     Because of that Horizon needs to get, say for 'volumes' quota, a
>>> >     list of Cinder volumes in the current tenant and then just
>>> calculate
>>> >     its length [1]. When there are really a lot of entities in tenant -
>>> >     instances/volumes/security groups/whatever - all this calls sum up
>>> >     and make rendering pages in Horizon much more slower than it could
>>> >     be. Is it possible to provide special API calls to alleviate this?
>>> >
>>> >     [1]
>>> >
>>> https://github.com/openstack/horizon/blob/9.0.0.0b1/openstack_dashboard/usage/quotas.py#L350
>>> >
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>>> I think Timur is asking for a way to filter on only certain resources
>>> for quota usage/limits, like volumes in cinder or instances in nova,
>>> rather than getting back all resource usage/limits per tenant.
>>>
>>> Is that correct, Timur?
>>>
>>> While it's possible to add this, I'm not sure how much time it's
>>> actually going to save in the DB query time to get the quota information
>>> for a tenant.
>>>
>>> Anyway, it's an API change so it would require a spec for nova which
>>> means we wouldn't be getting to that until at least N since we're in
>>> spec freeze for mitaka.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Matt Riedemann
>>>
>>>
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