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Ganeti Cluster tools (ganeti-htools) |
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These are some simple cluster tools for fixing common allocation |
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problems on Ganeti 2.0 clusters. |
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Note that these tools are most useful for bigger cluster sizes |
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(e.g. more than five or ten machines); at lower sizes, the |
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computations they do can also be done manually. |
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Most of the tools revolve around the concept of keeping the cluster |
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N+1 compliant: this means that in case of failure of any node, the |
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instances affected can be failed over (via ``gnt-node failover`` or |
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``gnt-instance failover``) to their secondary node, and there is |
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enough memory reserved for this operation without needing to shutdown |
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other instances or rebalance the cluster. |
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**Quick start** (see the installation section for more details): |
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- (have the ghc compiler and the prerequisite libraries installed) |
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- make |
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- ./hbal -m $cluster -C -p |
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- look at the original and final cluster layout, and if acceptable, |
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execute the given commands |
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Available tools |
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Cluster rebalancer |
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The rebalancer uses a simple algorithm to try to get the nodes of the |
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cluster as equal as possible in their resource usage. It tries to |
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repeatedly move each instance one step, so that the cluster score |
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becomes better. We stop when no further move can improve the score. |
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For algorithm details and usage, see the man page hbal(1). |
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IAllocator plugin |
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The ``hail`` iallocator plugin can be used for allocations of mirrored |
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and non-mirrored instances and for relocations of mirrored |
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instances. It needs to be installed in Ganeti's iallocator search |
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path—usually ``/usr/lib/ganeti/iallocators`` or |
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``/usr/local/lib/ganeti/iallocators``, and after that it can be used |
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via ganeti's ``--iallocator`` option (in various gnt-node/gnt-instance |
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commands). See the man page hail(1) for more details. |
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Cluster capacity estimator |
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The ``hspace`` program will, given an input instance specification, |
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estimate how many instances of those type can be place on the cluster |
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before it will become full (as in any new allocation would fail N+1 |
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checks). For more details, see the man page hspace(1). |
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Integration with Ganeti |
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The ``hbal`` and ``hspace`` programs can either get their input from |
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text files, locally from the master daemon (when run on the master |
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node of a cluster), or remote from a cluster via RAPI. The "-L" |
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argument enables local collection (with an optional path to the unix |
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socket). For online collection via RAPI, the "-m" argument should |
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specify the cluster or master node name. Only ``hbal`` and ``hspace`` |
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use these arguments, ``hail`` uses the standard iallocator API and |
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thus doesn't need any special setup (just needs to be installed in the |
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right directory). |
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For generating the text files, a separate tool (``hscan``) is provided |
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to automate their gathering if RAPI is available, which is better |
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since it can extract more precise information. In case RAPI is not |
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usable for whatever reason, the following two commands should be run:: |
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gnt-node list -oname,mtotal,mnode,mfree,dtotal,dfree,ctotal,offline \ |
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--separator '|' --no-headers > nodes |
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gnt-instance list -oname,be/memory,sda_size,be/vcpus,status,pnode,snodes \ |
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--separator '|' --no-head > instances |
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These two files should be saved under the names of *nodes* and |
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*instances*. |
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The ``hail`` program gets its data automatically from Ganeti when used |
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as described in its section. |
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Installation |
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If installing from source, you need a working ghc compiler (6.8 at |
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least) and some extra Haskell libraries which usually need to be |
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installed manually: |
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- json (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/json) |
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- curl (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/curl) |
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- network (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network) |
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Once these are installed, just typing *make* in the top-level |
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directory should be enough. |
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Only the ``hail`` program needs to be installed in a specific place, |
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the other tools are not location-dependent. |
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For running the (admittedly small) unittest suite (via *make check*), |
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the QuickCheck version 1 library is needed. |
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Internal (implementation) documentation is available in the ``apidoc`` |
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directory. |
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