[Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?

[Deepthi Dharwar]

Hi,

On 09/02/2013 01:12 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to see a more advanced type of Power-Saving Cluster policy,
> where an empty Host gets put into a sleep-mode, so that it draws as
> little power as possible and can be awoken by engine when VM's starts to
> use more resources.
> 
> A typical scenario would be that all VM's are spread evenly over Hosts
> during day-time, when customers are actively using their VM's. But then
> during off-hours, VM's gets clumped up into maybe one or two Hosts, and
> the other Hosts can be put to sleep to save energy, and then woken up in
> the morning again.


I agree. Current power-saving policy doesn't do much other than
consolidating VMs. Having a tunable based on which X/Y idle hosts in the
cluster could be powered-off, where Y-X hosts are ON just for backup. I
would love to see that in the coming days in oVirt.

It would also benefit if there is some kind of power-metering that is
flagged in the GUI. How much power each system is consuming and over-all
cluster is consuming.
This would be a real handy number to access power consumption of the
systems.

Regards,
Deepthi

> /Karli
> 
> tis 2013-08-20 klockan 17:19 -0400 skrev Itamar Heim:
>> earlier in the year we did a survey for feature requests / improvements 
>> / etc.
>>
>> since a lot of things were added, and priorities usually change, I'd 
>> like to ask again for "what do you need the most from oVirt / what are 
>> your pain points" next?
>>
>> below[1] I've listed my understanding of what already went in from 
>> previous survey requests (to various degrees of coverage).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     Itamar
>>
>> [1] from the top 12
>> V Allow disk resize
>> V Integrate Nagios/Zabbix monitoring - via a ui plugin
>> V Highly Available engine - via hosted engine[2]
>> V Open vSwitch integration - via neutron integration
>> X Allow cloning VMs without template
>> ? Enable hypervisor upgrade/updates through engine[3]
>> V Allow engine on an oVirt hosted VM - via hosted engine[2]
>> V Enable guest configuration (root password, SSH keys, network) via
>>    guest agent in engine - via cloud-init
>> X Integrate v2v into engine
>> ? Bond/extend ovirtmgmt with a second network for HA/increased
>>    bandwidth[4]
>> X Integrate scheduling of snapshots and VM export for backups in
>>    engine[5]
>> V Spice – support Google Chrome - via mime based launch
>>
>>
>> Other items mentioned in previous survey which should be covered by now:
>> - Fix timeout when adding local host during all-in-one configuration
>> - Fix engine set-up when SELinux is disabled
>> - Provide packages for el6 (CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
>> - Allow multiple VMs to be deployed from the same template at the same
>>    time
>> - ISO domains on local/GlusterS
>> - Show IP addresses in Virtual Machines->Network Interfaces
>> - OpenStack Quantum support (now called Neutron)
>> - noVNC support
>> - Support spice.html5 and websocket proxy
>> - Add other guest OSes to list
>> - Port oVirt guest agent to Ubuntu[6]
>> - SLA - Allow resource time-sharing
>> - Spice - Mac client (via mime based launch)
>> - Spice - port XPI plug-in to Windows (not sure this will happen, but
>>    mime based launch allows using firefox now)
>> - Spice - client for Ubuntu/Debian (should be covered via mime based
>>    launch)
>>
>>
>> [2] hosted engine is in active development, but not released yet.
>> [3] host update is supported, but not for general yum update.
>> [4] a lot of improvements were done in this space, but i'm not sure if
>>      they cover this exact use case
>> [5] backup api is now being pushed to master, and orchestration of
>>      backups should probably happen via 3rd part backup vendors?
>> [6] I'm not sure packaging exists yet, but ubuntu is covered for the
>>      basic functionality of the guest agent.
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