[PVE-User] Automated load balancing script(s)

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

Hi,No, I don't think someone have had time to implement this and it's not for now on the roadmap. 

But help is always welcome :)


1 thing that must be tricky, it's that we don't have a master server on a proxmox cluster.
So, one way is that each server can monitor his load, and migrate to other servers with less load.

An interesting paper here with some algos :
http://research.ijcaonline.org/volume46/number6/pxc3879263.pdf


Other things to check:

for cluster with differents hosts models/cpus:
- How to know that a host is more or less powerfull than other ? (bogomips ?)
- don't allow live migration on a server with less cpu/cores than a guest vm.

-We also need to allow/disallow a vm to be auto migrated on a differents hosts.  
-Avoid to migrate a vm for some spike load. (use average value on last X minutes)

It could be implemented as a daemon on the proxmox host.

You can get vm and host stats through pve api
#pvesh get /cluster/resources


Hope It can help you.

Don't hesitate to send mail to pve-devel mailing list.

Regards,

Alexandre

----- Mail original ----- 

De: "David Black" <proxmox at 1000.relay.net> 
À: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com 
Envoyé: Mardi 4 Septembre 2012 19:49:28 
Objet: [PVE-User] Automated load balancing script(s) 


I'm having a great time with Proxmox VE 2.1 in a three-node cluster with Solaris and Linux-based NFS storage, and find the only feature I really miss is some kind of automated load balancing - live migration of VMs to optimize performance. 

This past weekend I wrote scripts to collect node and VM stats, and am at the point where it's time to implement an algorithm that takes the available data and chooses when and what to migrate where. That may be the most difficult part, but there are simple ways to start (then get fancier later). 

Before I continue, has anyone already done something similar, and is this kind of feature on the Proxmox VE roadmap? 

Thanks! 
Dave 


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