[Openstack-operators] [scientific][accounting] Resource management

Stig Telfer stig.openstack at telfer.org
Tue May 3 07:58:37 UTC 2016


Thanks Tim, this is a great read and sets out CERN’s experience and use cases for enhanced accounting very well.

Best wishes,
Stig


> On 2 May 2016, at 18:02, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
> Following the discussions last week, I have put down a blog on how CERN does it’s resource management for the accounting team on the Scientific Working group. The areas we looked at were
> 	• Lustre-as-a-Service in Manila
> 	• Bare metal management
> 	• Accounting
> 	• User Stories and Reference Architectures
> The details are at http://openstack-in-production.blogspot.fr/2016/04/resource-management-at-cern.html. I list 5 needs to support these use cases. 
> 
> Need #1 : CPU performance based allocation and scheduling
> Need #2 : Nested Quotas
> Need #3 : Spot Market
> Need #4 : Reducing quota below utilization
> Need #5 : Components without quota
> 
> Given that the aim for the user stories input is that we consolidate a common set of requirements, I’d welcome feedback on the Needs to see if these are common across the scientific community and the relative priorities (mine are unsorted).
> 
> Tim
> 
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