between machines connected to the same switch might be bigger than the
bandwidth for inter-switch connections.
-Moreover some operations inside a cluster require all nodes to be locked
+Moreover, some operations inside a cluster require all nodes to be locked
together for inter-node consistency, and won't scale if we increase the
number of nodes to a few hundreds.
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With this change we'll divide Ganeti nodes into groups. Nothing will
-change for clusters with only one node group, the default one. Bigger
-cluster instead will be able to have more than one group, and each node
-will belong to exactly one.
+change for clusters with only one node group. Bigger clusters will be
+able to have more than one group, and each node will belong to exactly
+one.
Node group management
+++++++++++++++++++++
To manage node groups and the nodes belonging to them, the following new
-commands/flags will be introduced::
+commands and flags will be introduced::
gnt-node group-add <group> # add a new node group
gnt-node group-del <group> # delete an empty group
- Moving an instance between groups can only happen via an explicit
operation, which for example in the case of DRBD will work by
performing internally a replace-disks, a migration, and a second
- replace-disks. It will be possible to cleanup an interrupted
+ replace-disks. It will be possible to clean up an interrupted
group-move operation.
- Cluster verify will signal an error if an instance has been left
mid-transition between groups.
- - Intra-group instance migration/failover will check that the target
+ - Inter-group instance migration/failover will check that the target
group will be able to accept the instance network/storage wise, and
fail otherwise. In the future we may be able to make some parameter
changed during the move, but in the first version we expect an
We expect the following changes for cluster management:
- Frequent multinode operations, such as os-diagnose or cluster-verify
- will act one group at a time. The default group will be used if none
+ will act on one group at a time. The default group will be used if none
is passed. Command line tools will have a way to easily target all
groups, by generating one job per group.
- Groups will have a human-readable name, but will internally always
should we see it's useful.
We envision groups as a good place to enhance cluster scalability. In
-the future we may want to use them ad units for configuration diffusion,
+the future we may want to use them as units for configuration diffusion,
to allow a better master scalability. For example it could be possible
to change some all-nodes RPCs to contact each group once, from the
master, and make one node in the group perform internal diffusion. We
- the total node memory, CPU count are very seldom changing; the total
node disk space is also slow changing, but can change at runtime; the
free memory and free disk will change significantly for some jobs, but
- on a short timescale; in general, these values will mostly “constant”
+ on a short timescale; in general, these values will be mostly “constant”
during the lifetime of a job
- we already have a periodic set of jobs that query the node and
instance state, driven the by :command:`ganeti-watcher` command, and
we're just discarding the results after acting on them
-Given the above, it makes sense to cache inside the master daemon the
-results of node and instance state (with a focus on the node state).
+Given the above, it makes sense to cache the results of node and instance
+state (with a focus on the node state) inside the master daemon.
The cache will not be serialised to disk, and will be for the most part
transparent to the outside of the master daemon.
consistent). Partial results will not update the cache (see next
paragraph).
-Since the there will be no way to feed the cache from outside, and we
+Since there will be no way to feed the cache from outside, and we
would like to have a consistent cache view when driven by the watcher,
we'll introduce a new OpCode/LU for the watcher to run, instead of the
current separate opcodes (see below in the watcher section).
allocation on one group from exclusive blocking jobs on other node
groups.
-The capacity calculations will also use the cache—this is detailed in
+The capacity calculations will also use the cache. This is detailed in
the respective sections.
Watcher operation
This method will feed the cluster state (for the complete set of node
group, or alternative just a subset) to the iallocator plugin (either
-the specified one, or the default is none is specified), and return the
+the specified one, or the default if none is specified), and return the
new capacity in the format currently exported by the htools suite and
known as the “tiered specs” (see :manpage:`hspace(1)`).