[Openstack-operators] Cinder quota per volume types in the dashboard

Arne Wiebalck Arne.Wiebalck at cern.ch
Thu Oct 12 11:46:42 UTC 2017


As requested in the feedback, a blueprint has been prepared and filed here:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/quotas-per-cinder-volume-type

We’ll look into uploading our patch.

Cheers,
 Arne



> On 12 Oct 2017, at 13:27, Saverio Proto <zioproto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So we had a bad feedback on the bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1717342
> 
> Do we have anything pushed to Gerrit that we can at least use carrying
> a local patch ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Saverio
> 
> 
> 2017-09-26 20:21 GMT+02:00 Massimo Sgaravatto <massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com>:
>> ok, I will
>> 
>> 2017-09-26 14:43 GMT+02:00 Arne Wiebalck <arne.wiebalck at cern.ch>:
>>> 
>>> Massimo,
>>> 
>>> Following Rob’s comment on
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1717342, would you
>>> be willing to write up a blueprint? Mateusz would then prepare our code
>>> and submit it to
>>> gerrit as a partial implementation (as we only have the user facing part,
>>> not the admin panel).
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Arne
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 25 Sep 2017, at 10:46, Arne Wiebalck <Arne.Wiebalck at cern.ch> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ah, nice, wasn’t aware. Mateusz is one of the Horizon experts here at CERN
>>> I was referring to :)
>>> 
>>> On 25 Sep 2017, at 10:41, Massimo Sgaravatto
>>> <massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just found that there is already this one:
>>> 
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1717342
>>> 
>>> 2017-09-25 10:28 GMT+02:00 Saverio Proto <zioproto at gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> Yes I am interested. Are you going to push them to gerrit ?
>>>> Should we open a bug to track this change into Horizon ?
>>>> 
>>>> massimo do you want to open the bug on Launchpad ? So if Arne pushed
>>>> the patches on gerrit we can link them to the bug. I pointed
>>>> robcresswell to this thread, he is reading us.
>>>> 
>>>> thanks !
>>>> 
>>>> Saverio
>>>> 
>>>> 2017-09-25 10:13 GMT+02:00 Arne Wiebalck <Arne.Wiebalck at cern.ch>:
>>>>> Massimo, Saverio,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We faced the same issue and have created patches for Horizon to display
>>>>> - the per volume quota in the volume request panel, and also
>>>>> - additional information about the volume type (like IOPS and
>>>>> throughput limits, intended usage etc.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> The patches will need some polishing before being sent upstream (I’ll
>>>>> need
>>>>> need to cross-check with our Horizon experts), but we use them in prod
>>>>> since
>>>>> quite a while and are happy to already share patch files if you’re
>>>>> interested.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Arne
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 25 Sep 2017, at 09:58, Saverio Proto <zioproto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am pinging on IRC robcresswell from the Horizon project. He is still
>>>>>> PTL I think.
>>>>>> If you are on IRC please join #openstack-horizon.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We should ask the Horizon PTL how to get this feature request into
>>>>>> implementation.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> With the command line interface, can you already see the two different
>>>>>> quotas for the two different volume types ? Can you paste an example
>>>>>> output from the CLI ?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thank you
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Saverio
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2017-09-25 9:55 GMT+02:00 Massimo Sgaravatto
>>>>>> <massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> We are currently running Mitaka (preparing to update to Ocata). I see
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> same behavior on an Ocata based testbed
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks, Massimo
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2017-09-25 9:50 GMT+02:00 Saverio Proto <zioproto at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hello Massimo,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> what is your version of Openstack ??
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> thank you
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Saverio
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 2017-09-25 9:13 GMT+02:00 Massimo Sgaravatto
>>>>>>>> <massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> In our OpenStack cloud we have two backends for Cinder (exposed
>>>>>>>>> using
>>>>>>>>> two
>>>>>>>>> volume types), and we set different quotas for these two volume
>>>>>>>>> types.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The problem happens when a user, using the dashboard, tries to
>>>>>>>>> create a
>>>>>>>>> volume using a volume type for which the project quota is over:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> - the reported error message simply reports "unable to create
>>>>>>>>> volume",
>>>>>>>>> without mentioning that the problem is with quota
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> - (by default) the dashboard only shows the overall Cinder quota
>>>>>>>>> (and
>>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>> the quota per volume)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Do you know if it possible in some to expose on the dashboard the
>>>>>>>>> cinder
>>>>>>>>> quota per volume type ?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Thanks, Massimo
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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