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Moving instances accross node groups

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This design document explains the changes needed in Ganeti to perform

instance moves across node groups. Reader familiarity with the following

existing documents is advised:

- :doc:`Current IAllocator specification <iallocator>`

- :doc:`Shared storage model in 2.3+ <design-shared-storage>`

Motivation and and design proposal

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At the moment, moving instances away from their primary or secondary

nodes with the ``relocate`` and ``multi-evacuate`` IAllocator calls

restricts target nodes to those on the same node group. This ensures a

mobility domain is never crossed, and allows normal operation of each

node group to be confined within itself.

It is desirable, however, to have a way of moving instances across node

groups so that, for example, it is possible to move a set of instances

to another group for policy reasons, or completely empty a given group

to perform maintenance operations.

To implement this, we propose the addition of new IAllocator calls to

compute inter-group instance moves and group-aware node evacuation,

taking into account mobility domains as appropriate. The interface

proposed below should be enough to cover the use cases mentioned above.

With the implementation of this design proposal, the previous

``multi-evacuate`` mode will be deprecated.

.. _multi-reloc-detailed-design:

Detailed design

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All requests honor the groups' ``alloc_policy`` attribute.

Changing instance's groups

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Takes a list of instances and a list of node group UUIDs; the instances

will be moved away from their current group, to any of the groups in the

target list. All instances need to have their primary node in the same

group, which may not be a target group. If the target group list is

empty, the request is simply "change group" and the instances are placed

in any group but their original one.

Node evacuation

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Evacuates instances off their primary nodes. The evacuation mode

can be given as ``primary-only``, ``secondary-only`` or

``all``. The call is given a list of instances whose primary nodes need

to be in the same node group. The returned nodes need to be in the same

group as the original primary node.

.. _multi-reloc-result:

Result

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In all storage models, an inter-group move can be modeled as a sequence

of **replace secondary**, **migration** and **failover** operations

(when shared storage is used, they will all be failover or migration

operations within the corresponding mobility domain).

The result of the operations described above must contain two lists of

instances and a list of jobsets.

The two lists of instances describe which instances could be

moved/migrated and which couldn't for some reason ("unsuccessful"). The

union of the instances in the two lists must be equal to the set of

instances given in the original request. The successful list of

instances contains elements as follows::

  (instance name, target group name, [chosen node names])

The choice of names is simply for readability reasons (for example,

Ganeti could log the computed solution in the job information) and for

being able to check (manually) for consistency that the generated

opcodes match the intended target groups/nodes. Note that for the

node-evacuate operation, the group is not changed, but it should still

be returned as such (as it's easier to have the same return type for

both operations).

The unsuccessful list of instances contains elements as follows::

  (instance name, explanation)

where ``explanation`` is a string describing why the plugin was not able

to relocate the instance.

The list of jobsets contained in the result describe how to actually

execute the operation. Each jobset contains lists of serialized opcodes.

Example::

  [

    [

      { "OP_ID": "OP_INSTANCE_MIGRATE",

        "instance_name": "inst1.example.com",

      },

      { "OP_ID": "OP_INSTANCE_MIGRATE",

        "instance_name": "inst2.example.com",

      },

    ],

    [

      { "OP_ID": "OP_INSTANCE_REPLACE_DISKS",

        "instance_name": "inst2.example.com",

        "mode": "replace_new_secondary",

        "remote_node": "node4.example.com"

      },

    ],

    [

      { "OP_ID": "OP_INSTANCE_FAILOVER",

        "instance_name": "inst8.example.com",

      },

    ]

  ]

Accepted opcodes:

- ``OP_INSTANCE_FAILOVER``

- ``OP_INSTANCE_MIGRATE``

- ``OP_INSTANCE_REPLACE_DISKS``

Starting with the first set, Ganeti will submit all jobs of a set at the

same time, enabling execution in parallel. Upon completion of all jobs

in a set, the process is repeated for the next one. Ganeti is at liberty

to abort the execution after any jobset. In such a case the user is

notified and can restart the operation.

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