[one-users] "force" deploy of VM

[Mario Benincasa]

Thanks Carlos for your answer.

About your suggestion, do you mean calling the fault tolerance script
(host_error.rb) with the "-f" option?
Or some more tweaking?
Because the comments in the oned.conf file say "force resubmission of
suspended VMs".
In my case VMs are not in suspended state, but in pending state.
Resubmission means redeploy, i.e. new VM id allocated?

Thanks

    Mario


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Carlos Martín Sánchez <
cmartin at opennebula.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Mario Benincasa <mbeninca at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a simple question (well I believe it is simple :-) )
>> I searched through documentation and mailing list archive, but I wasn't
>> able to find anything.
>> Apologies if the question has already been answered somewhere.
>>
>> After template instantiation, the VM is placed in pending state until the
>> scheduler decides to run it.
>> If there are not enough resources, it will remain in pending state.
>> "onevm deploy" will anyway run it, even in case of not enough resources.
>>
>> My question is: is it possible to automatically have the deploy of the
>> VM, even if the scheduler would leave it in pending state?
>>
>> I need this for the fault tolerance script: I have two nodes, each
>> running a certain number of VMs. In case a node crashes, I want the VMs to
>> be deployed in the surviving node, even if the scheduler disagrees.
>> Currently, the VMs are left in pending state, thus they are not
>> recovering the service. Of course a manual "onevm deploy" would recover,
>> but I would like to have it automatically :-)
>> The impacted resource appears to be the RAM: the sum of the VMs' RAM
>> allocation exceeds the physical RAM, but in real operating conditions the
>> RAM usage is quite under the allocated RAM, and thus I expect no problem in
>> such an over provisioning.
>>
>> Thanks for any hint.
>>
>>    Mario
>>
>
> We don't have any way to tell the scheduler to ignore the VM requirements,
> and I think it would be a problematic feature. Memory overcommitment (up to
> a certain amount) may not have a noticeable impact, but a full disk will
> certainly do.
>
> I think your best option is to have the fault tolerance script do the
> forced deploy.
>
> Regards
> --
> Carlos Martín, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
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