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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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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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Cluster N+1 solver |
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This program runs a very simple brute force algorithm over the instance |
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placement space in order to determine the shortest number of replace-disks |
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needed to fix the cluster. Note this means we won't get a balanced cluster, |
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just one that passes N+1 checks. |
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For algorithm details and usage, see the man page hn1(1). |
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.. note:: This program is deprecated, hbal should be used instead. |
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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``. See the man page hail(1). |
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Integration with Ganeti |
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The ``hbal`` and ``hn1`` programs can either get their input from text |
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files, or online from a cluster via RAPI. For online collection via |
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RAPI, the "-m" argument to both hn1 and hbal should specify the |
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cluster or master node name. ``hail`` uses the standard iallocator API |
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and thus doesn't need any special setup (just needs to be installed in |
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the right directory). |
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For generating the text files, a separate tool (hscan) is provided to |
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automate their gathering if RAPI is available, which is better since |
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it can extract more precise information. In case RAPI is not usable |
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for whatever reason, the following two commands should be run:: |
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gnt-node list -oname,mtotal,mnode,mfree,dtotal,dfree,offline \ |
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--separator '|' --no-headers > nodes |
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gnt-instance list -oname,be/memory,sda_size,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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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 |
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- curl |
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Once these are available, just typing *make* in the top-level |
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directory should be enough. |
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Internal (implementation) documentation is available in the ``apidoc`` |
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directory. |
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.. Local Variables: |
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.. mode: rst |
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.. End: |