[one-users] can user's RAM quota acount only running/active VMs?

Stefan Kooman stefan at bit.nl
Tue May 13 02:35:24 PDT 2014


Quoting Carlos Martín Sánchez (cmartin at opennebula.org):
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Liu, Guang Jun (Gene) <
> Gene.Liu at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> 
> >  Hi there,
> >
> > Is there a way to config or twist OpenNebula so that quota management
> > (e.g. RAM) counts resources of active VMs only?
> >
> > I found the quota management (RAM per user) counts all the VMs which
> > created by a user. We found if the quota only counts the resources from the
> > active VMs, that means more sense. E.g., I have 16RAM quota. I create one
> > VM w/ 16G RAM. Then I save/stop my VM. The system should allow me to create
> > another VM w/ 16G RAM if quota management counts only active VMs.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Gene
> >
> 
> There isn't a way to configure that. It would require to modify the core.
> 
> But I think it makes sense. So I return the question to the community:
> ¿Should we consider this change in the quota behaviour?

I vote for this change. Your not actually consuming resources on the
hypervisor(s) for not having running vm's ...

Gr. Stefan

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