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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading page-header"><span
dir="auto">Proposal VDSM - Engine Data Statistics Retrieval</span></h1>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="VDSM_.3C.3D.3E_Engine_data_retrieval_optimization">VDSM
<=> Engine data retrieval optimization </span></h2>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Motivation:"> Motivation: </span></h3>
<p>Currently the RHEVM engine is polling the a lot of data from VDSM
every 15 seconds. This should be optimized and the amount of data
requested should be more specific.
</p>
<p>For each VM the data currently contains much more information
than actually needed which blows up the size of the XML content
quite big. We could optimize this by splitting the reply on the
getVmStats based on the request of the engine into sections.
For this reason Omer Frenkel and me have split up the data into
parts based on their usage.
</p>
<p>This data can and usually does change during the lifetime of the
VM.
</p>
<h4> <span class="mw-headline" id="Rarely_Changed:"> Rarely
Changed: </span></h4>
<p>This data is change not very frequent and it should be enough to
update this only once in a while.
Most commonly this data changes after changes made in the UI or
after a migration of the VM to another Host.
</p>
<pre> <b>Status</b> = Running
<b>acpiEnable</b> = true
<b>vmType</b> = kvm
<b>guestName</b> = W864GUESTAGENTT
<b>displayType</b> = qxl
<b>guestOs</b> = Win 8
<b>kvmEnable</b> = true # <i><b>this should be constant and never changed</b></i>
<b>pauseCode</b> = NOERR
<b>monitorResponse</b> = 0
<b>session</b> = Locked # unused
<b>netIfaces</b> = [{'name': 'Realtek RTL8139C+ Fast Ethernet NIC', 'inet6': ['fe80::490c:92bb:bbcc:9f87'], 'inet': ['10.34.60.148'], 'hw': '00:1a:4a:22:3c:db'}]
<b>appsList</b> = ['RHEV-Tools 3.2.4', 'RHEV-Agent64 3.2.3', 'RHEV-Serial64 3.2.3', 'RHEV-Network64 3.2.2', 'RHEV-Network64 3.2.3', 'RHEV-Block64 3.2.3', 'RHEV-Balloon64 3.2.3', 'RHEV-Balloon64 3.2.2', 'RHEV-Agent64 3.2.2', 'RHEV-USB 3.2.3', 'RHEV-Block64 3.2.2', 'RHEV-Serial64 3.2.2']
<b>pid</b> = 11314
<b>guestIPs</b> = 10.34.60.148 # duplicated info
<b>displayIp</b> = 0
<b>displayPort</b> = 5902
<b>displaySecurePort</b> = 5903
<b>username</b> = user@W864GUESTAGENTT
<b>clientIp</b> =
<b>lastLogin</b> = 1361976900.67
</pre>
<h4> <span class="mw-headline" id="Often_Changed:"> Often Changed:
</span></h4>
<p>This data is changed quite often however it is not necessary to
update this data every 15 seconds. As this is cumulative data and
reflects the current status, and it does not need to be
snapshotted every 15 seconds to retrieve statistics. The data can
be retrieved in much more generous time slices. (e.g. Every 5
minutes)
</p>
<pre> <b>network</b> = {'vnet1': {'macAddr': '00:1a:4a:22:3c:db', 'rxDropped': '0', 'txDropped': '0', 'rxErrors': '0', 'txRate': '0.0', 'rxRate': '0.0', 'txErrors': '0', 'state': 'unknown', 'speed': '100', 'name': 'vnet1'}}
<b>disksUsage</b> = [{'path': 'c:\\', 'total': '64055406592', 'fs': 'NTFS', 'used': '19223846912'}, {'path': 'd:\\', 'total': '3490912256', 'fs': 'UDF', 'used': '3490912256'}]
<b>timeOffset</b> = 14422
<b>elapsedTime</b> = 68591
<b>hash</b> = 2335461227228498964
<b>statsAge</b> = 0.09 # unused
</pre>
<h4> <span class="mw-headline" id="Often_Changed_but_unused"> Often
Changed but unused </span></h4>
<p>This data does not seem to be used in the engine at all. It is <b>not</b>
even used in the data warehouse.
</p>
<pre> <b>memoryStats</b> = {'swap_out': '0', 'majflt': '0', 'mem_free': '1466884', 'swap_in': '0', 'pageflt': '0', 'mem_total': '2096736', 'mem_unused': '1466884'}
<b>balloonInfo</b> = {'balloon_max': 2097152, 'balloon_cur': 2097152}
<b>disks</b> = {'vda': {'readLatency': '0', 'apparentsize': '64424509440', 'writeLatency': '1754496', 'imageID': '28abb923-7b89-4638-84f8-1700f0b76482', 'flushLatency': '156549', 'readRate': '0.00', 'truesize': '18855059456', 'writeRate': '952.05'}, 'hdc': {'readLatency': '0', 'apparentsize': '0', 'writeLatency': '0', 'flushLatency': '0', 'readRate': '0.00', 'truesize': '0', 'writeRate': '0.00'}}
</pre>
<h4> <span class="mw-headline"
id="Very_frequent_uppdates_needed_by_webadmin_portal:"> Very
frequent uppdates needed by webadmin portal: </span></h4>
<p>This data is mostly needed for the webadmin portal and might be
required to be updated quite often. An exception here is the
statsAge field, which seems to be unused by the Engine.
This data could be requested every 15 seconds to keep things as
they are now.
</p>
<pre> <b>cpuSys</b> = 2.32
<b>cpuUser</b> = 1.34
<b>memUsage</b> = 30
</pre>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline"
id="Proposed_Solution_for_VDSM_.26_Engine:"> Proposed Solution
for VDSM & Engine: </span></h2>
<p>We will introduce new optional parameters to getVmStats,
getAllVmStats and list to allow a finer grained specification of
data which should be included.
</p>
<p><b>Parameter:</b> <b>statsType</b>=<i><b><string></b></i>
(getVmStats, getAllVmStats only)
<b>Allowed values:</b>
</p>
<ul>
<li> full (default to keep backwards compatibility)
</li>
<li> app-list (Just send the application list)
</li>
<li> rare (include everything from rarely changed to very
frequent)
</li>
<li> often (include everything from often changed to very
frequent)
</li>
<li> frequent (only send the very frequently changed items)
</li>
</ul>
<p><br>
<b>Parameter:</b> <b>clientId</b>=<b><string></b>
The client id is specified by the client and should be unique
however constantly used.
</p>
<p><b>Parameter:</b> <b>diff</b>=<b><boolean></b>
In combination with the clientId VDSM will send only differences
to the previous request from the named clientId. (if diff=true)
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Additional_Change:"> Additional
Change: </span></h3>
<p>Besides the introduction of the new parameters for list,
getVmStats and getAllVmStats it might make sense to include a hash
for the appList into the rarely changed section of the response
which would allow to identify changes and avoid having to sent the
complete appList every so often and only if the hash known to the
client is outdated.
</p>
<p><b>Note:</b> The appList (Application List) reported by the guest
agent could be fully implemented on request only, as long as the
guest agent installed supports this. As there seems to be a
request to have the complete list of installed applications on all
guests this data could be quite extensive and a huge list. On the
other hand this data is only rarely visible and therefore it
should not be requested all the time and only on demand.
</p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Improvement_of_the_Guest_Agent:">
Improvement of the Guest Agent: </span></h3>
<p>As part of the proposed solution it is necessary to improve the
guest agent as well. For the full application list there should be
implemented a caching system which will be fully reactive and
should not poll the application list for example all the time.
The guest can create a prepared data file containing all data in
the JSON format (as used for the communication with VDSM via VIO)
and just have to read that file from disk and directly sends it to
VDSM.
However it is quite possible that this list is to big and it might
have to be chunked into pieces. (Multiple messages, which would
have to be supported by VDSM then as well)
The solution for this is to make VDSM request this data and it
will retrieve the data necessary on request only.
</p>
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