[ovirt-users] Simple script to split VMs on different host - No affinity group

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/30/2014 09:23 PM, Amedeo Salvati wrote:
> hello guys,
>
> if you are interested, I wrote a simple python script to balance VMs on
> different host/hypervisor, logic is simple and will search for same
> couple of vm name and number suffix, odd and even, and it will try to
> migrate even VM, if it resides on same host where resides the odd VM.
>
> For example if VMPROJ1PROD01 and VMPROJ1PROD02 resides on same host,
> then, the script will migrate only VMPROJ1PROD02.
>
> url of script and rpms are on github:
>
> http://github.com/amedeos/ovirt-BalanceVMOnDifferentHost
>
> and feel free to suggest new patch, enhancement, create a fork...
>
> p.s. I haven't use affinity groups, because maintenance of them will
> become a struggle, and I want *only* to run same project/application VMs
> with same name on different hypervisor.
>
> Best regards
> Amedeo Salvati
>
>
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just a thought - you can implement this in a more integrated mannger as 
part of the pluggable scheduler?