[Fiware-cloud] Flavor metadata in images

[Federico Michele Facca]

btw, horizon works like that. when you select an image (given that you set
the metadata), only compatible flavours are displayed.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Alex Glikson <GLIKSON at il.ibm.com> wrote:

> Please, check feasibility of using min_disk property before we make the
> final decision.
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> Thanks,
> Alex
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> From:        Kenneth Nagin/Haifa/IBM at IBMIL
> To:        Álvaro Alonso <aalonsog at dit.upm.es>
> Cc:        fiware-cloud at lists.fi-ware.org
> Date:        09/06/2015 08:49 AM
> Subject:        Re: [Fiware-cloud] Flavor metadata in images
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> I agree with your decision.
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> Best Regards,
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> Kenneth Nagin
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> From:        Álvaro Alonso <aalonsog at dit.upm.es>
> To:        Ezra Silvera/Haifa/IBM at IBMIL
> Cc:        fiware-cloud at lists.fi-ware.org
> Date:        08/06/2015 05:56 PM
> Subject:        Re: [Fiware-cloud] Flavor metadata in images
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> Yes, of course. But for the installation it will require the same. So at
> least, the VM would be able to be launched.
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> Anyway this is a requirement from a user, we have to decide if it make
> sense or not. In my opinion the current behaviour is ok because the user
> will get an error saying that the specified flavour is not enough and he
> can try again with another one.
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> So if everybody agree, we can dismiss this feature.
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> BR
> --
> Álvaro
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> El 08 Jun 2015, a las 16:44, Ezra Silvera <*EZRA at il.ibm.com*
> <EZRA at il.ibm.com>> escribió:
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> Also as Alex indicated resources depend on the workload and not just the
> image. For example, mysql vm may require different memory size depending on
> the target usage and load
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> -Ezra Silvera
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> Álvaro Alonso --- Re: [Fiware-cloud] Flavor metadata in images ---  מאת: "Álvaro
> Alonso" <*aalonsog at dit.upm.es* <aalonsog at dit.upm.es>>  אל: "Ezra Silvera"
> <*EZRA at il.ibm.com* <EZRA at il.ibm.com>>  עותק: "" <
> *fiware-cloud at lists.fi-ware.org* <fiware-cloud at lists.fi-ware.org>>  תאריך: יום
> ב׳, 8 ביונ 2015 16:39  נושא: Re: [Fiware-cloud] Flavor metadata in images
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> Alex, the solution there is to include in images info regarding capacity
> (in terms of CPU, mem, disk and not directly a flavour) and then select the
> flavours that fit that requirements.
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> The problem comes when a user tries to launch an image that needs, for
> instance, 1GB of disk to install the SO using a flavour of 500 MB.
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> BR
> --
> Álvaro
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> El 08 Jun 2015, a las 14:34, Ezra Silvera <*EZRA at il.ibm.com*
> <EZRA at il.ibm.com>> escribió:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure it is aligned or make sense in terms of OpenStack. The
> separation between flavors and images was done by design In OpenStack so
> that you decouple between image and the required resources. I agree it
> would be nice to show only the flavors that can be used but this should be
> decoupled from the image (i.e., if you have max 200GB free mem on all hosts
> don't show flavors with mem > 200MB).
>
> Note that if we add such link it will need to be maintained through out
> flavor life cycle (create, delete, etc..) . Also this will require someone
> who add an image (or someone who define a flavor) to go through ALL
> images/flavors to validate for these matches.
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> Thanks
>
> Ezra Silvera
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> From:        Álvaro Alonso <*aalonsog at dit.upm.es* <aalonsog at dit.upm.es>>
> To:        *fiware-cloud at lists.fi-ware.org*
> <fiware-cloud at lists.fi-ware.org>
> Date:        08/06/2015 02:41 PM
> Subject:        [Fiware-cloud] Flavor metadata in images
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> Hi Kenneth, Alex.
>
> one the features planned for the Cloud Portal is to, when deploying a VM,
> only show to the users the flavours that has enough capacity to host the
> specific image.
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> *https://jira.fiware.org/browse/CLD-299*
> <https://jira.fiware.org/browse/CLD-299>
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> In order to support that, all images should include a metadata field with
> the info about the flavour they need. I don’t know if it make sense to
> really support this feature because I’m aware the work load including this
> field in every images would suppose.
>
> What do you think?
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