SchedulerImplementation

Scheduler Implementation

Live Notes may be taken for this topic at: http://etherpad.openstack.org/Scheduler

A request comes in from a user to build a new slice/instance/vm.

Given many thousands potential nodes, how do we decide where to put it?

Identify the things that factor into the decision, such as:

• Qualitative suitability measures (hard rules)
  • Is it "active" (nodes will likely have some sort of state ("active", "maintenance", etc.)?
  • is the hardware current or being phased out?
  • Will it fit? (a 16 GB slice won't fit on a node with only 256 MB free)
• Quantitative suitability (weighting)
  • State (more states may be eligible for new VMs, but some might be preferred over others (e.g. "active" servers should be preferred over "spare" servers, but if need be, a "spare" server is eligible)
  • How busy is the server doing other things (like building VM's or cleaning up after old ones)?
  • Does the user have other VM's in the same cluster (not a hard rule, because we only have that many clusters)
  • Does the user have other VM's on the same node (not a hard rule, because we only have that many nodes)
    • Does the node have a cached copy of the disk image already?

Do we need "best match", "good enough", or "not too shabby"?

Discussion to include Auctioning and "go get it" as well. ideas:

• host responds only if valid candidate
• then least busy wins
• at launch queue, like coin sorter (more complex)
• first to answer wins unless large, then least busy
• host intelligent better because it scales, higher level intelligence does not
• pluggable

Current Ozone implementation of Server Best Match (SBM):

• Hard rules
• Soft rules
• best weighted winds