Scheduling

Implements blueprint per-aggregate-resource-ratio. AggregateCoreFilter supports per-aggregate cpu_allocation_ratio. If the per-aggregate value is not found, the value falls back to the global setting.

Matches properties defined in an image's metadata against those of aggregates to determine host matches:

For example, the following aggregate myWinAgg has the Windows operating system as metadata (named 'windows'):

$ nova aggregate-details MyWinAgg
+----+----------+-------------------+------------+---------------+
| Id | Name     | Availability Zone | Hosts      | Metadata      |
+----+----------+-------------------+------------+---------------+
| 1  | MyWinAgg | None              | 'sf-devel' | 'os=windows'  |
+----+----------+-------------------+------------+---------------+

In this example, because the following Win-2012 image has the windows property, it would boot on the sf-devel host (all other filters being equal):

$ glance image-show Win-2012
+------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property         | Value                                |
+------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property 'os'    | windows                              |
| checksum         | f8a2eeee2dc65b3d9b6e63678955bd83     |
| container_format | ami                                  |
| created_at       | 2013-11-14T13:24:25                  |
| ...

You can configure the AggregateImagePropertiesIsolation filter using the following options in the nova.conf file:

# Considers only keys matching the given namespace (string).
aggregate_image_properties_isolation_namespace=<None>

# Separator used between the namespace and keys (string).
aggregate_image_properties_isolation_separator=.

Matches properties defined in an instance type's extra specs against admin-defined properties on a host aggregate. Works with specifications that are unscoped, or are scoped with aggregate_instance_extra_specs. See the host aggregates section for documentation on how to use this filter.

Isolates tenants to specific host aggregates. If a host is in an aggregate that has the metadata key filter_tenant_id it only creates instances from that tenant (or list of tenants). A host can be in different aggregates. If a host does not belong to an aggregate with the metadata key, it can create instances from all tenants.

Implements blueprint per-aggregate-resource-ratio. Supports per-aggregate ram_allocation_ratio. If per-aggregate value is not found, it falls back to the default setting.

This is a no-op filter, it does not eliminate any of the available hosts.

Filters hosts by availability zone. This filter must be enabled for the scheduler to respect availability zones in requests.

Matches properties defined in an instance type's extra specs against compute capabilities.

If an extra specs key contains a colon ":", anything before the colon is treated as a namespace, and anything after the colon is treated as the key to be matched. If a namespace is present and is not 'capabilities', it is ignored by this filter.

Passes all hosts that are operational and enabled.

In general, this filter should always be enabled.

Only schedule instances on hosts if there are sufficient CPU cores available. If this filter is not set, the scheduler may over provision a host based on cores (for example, the virtual cores running on an instance may exceed the physical cores).

This filter can be configured to allow a fixed amount of vCPU overcommitment by using the cpu_allocation_ratio Configuration option in nova.conf. The default setting is:

cpu_allocation_ratio=16.0

With this setting, if 8 vCPUs are on a node, the scheduler allows instances up to 128 vCPU to be run on that node.

To disallow vCPU overcommitment set:

cpu_allocation_ratio=1.0

	Note
	The Compute API will always return the actual number of CPU cores available on a compute node regardless of the value of the cpu_allocation_ratio configuration key. As a result changes to the cpu_allocation_ratio are not reflected via the command line clients or the dashboard. Changes to this configuration key are only taken into account internally in the scheduler.

Schedule the instance on a different host from a set of instances. To take advantage of this filter, the requester must pass a scheduler hint, using different_host as the key and a list of instance uuids as the value. This filter is the opposite of the SameHostFilter. Using the nova command-line tool, use the --hint flag. For example:

$ nova boot --image cedef40a-ed67-4d10-800e-17455edce175 --flavor 1 \
  --hint different_host=a0cf03a5-d921-4877-bb5c-86d26cf818e1 \
  --hint different_host=8c19174f-4220-44f0-824a-cd1eeef10287 server-1

With the API, use the os:scheduler_hints key. For example:

{
    "server": {
        "name": "server-1",
        "imageRef": "cedef40a-ed67-4d10-800e-17455edce175",
        "flavorRef": "1"
    },
    "os:scheduler_hints": {
        "different_host": [
            "a0cf03a5-d921-4877-bb5c-86d26cf818e1",
            "8c19174f-4220-44f0-824a-cd1eeef10287"
        ]
    }
}

Only schedule instances on hosts if there is sufficient disk space available for root and ephemeral storage.

This filter can be configured to allow a fixed amount of disk overcommitment by using the disk_allocation_ratio Configuration option in nova.conf. The default setting is:

disk_allocation_ratio=1.0

Adjusting this value to greater than 1.0 enables scheduling instances while over committing disk resources on the node. This might be desirable if you use an image format that is sparse or copy on write such that each virtual instance does not require a 1:1 allocation of virtual disk to physical storage.

	Note
	This filter is deprecated in favor of ServerGroupAffinityFilter.

The GroupAffinityFilter ensures that an instance is scheduled on to a host from a set of group hosts. To take advantage of this filter, the requester must pass a scheduler hint, using group as the key and an arbitrary name as the value. Using the nova command-line tool, use the --hint flag. For example:

$ nova boot --image IMAGE_ID --flavor 1 --hint group=foo server-1

This filter should not be enabled at the same time as GroupAntiAffinityFilter or neither filter will work properly.

	Note
	This filter is deprecated in favor of ServerGroupAntiAffinityFilter.

The GroupAntiAffinityFilter ensures that each instance in a group is on a different host. To take advantage of this filter, the requester must pass a scheduler hint, using group as the key and an arbitrary name as the value. Using the nova command-line tool, use the --hint flag. For example:

$ nova boot --image IMAGE_ID --flavor 1 --hint group=foo server-1

This filter should not be enabled at the same time as GroupAffinityFilter or neither filter will work properly.

Filters hosts based on properties defined on the instance's image. It passes hosts that can support the specified image properties contained in the instance. Properties include the architecture, hypervisor type, and virtual machine mode. for example, an instance might require a host that runs an ARM-based processor and QEMU as the hypervisor. An image can be decorated with these properties by using:

$ glance image-update img-uuid --property architecture=arm --property hypervisor_type=qemu

The image properties that the filter checks for are:

Allows the admin to define a special (isolated) set of images and a special (isolated) set of hosts, such that the isolated images can only run on the isolated hosts, and the isolated hosts can only run isolated images. The flag restrict_isolated_hosts_to_isolated_images can be used to force isolated hosts to only run isolated images.

The admin must specify the isolated set of images and hosts in the nova.conf file using the isolated_hosts and isolated_images configuration options. For example:

isolated_hosts=server1,server2
isolated_images=342b492c-128f-4a42-8d3a-c5088cf27d13,ebd267a6-ca86-4d6c-9a0e-bd132d6b7d09

The JsonFilter allows a user to construct a custom filter by passing a scheduler hint in JSON format. The following operators are supported:

The filter supports the following variables:

Using the nova command-line tool, use the --hint flag:

$ nova boot --image 827d564a-e636-4fc4-a376-d36f7ebe1747 \
  --flavor 1 --hint query='[">=","$free_ram_mb",1024]' server1

With the API, use the os:scheduler_hints key:

{
    "server": {
        "name": "server-1",
        "imageRef": "cedef40a-ed67-4d10-800e-17455edce175",
        "flavorRef": "1"
    },
    "os:scheduler_hints": {
        "query": "[>=,$free_ram_mb,1024]"
    }
}

Only schedule instances on hosts that have sufficient RAM available. If this filter is not set, the scheduler may over provision a host based on RAM (for example, the RAM allocated by virtual machine instances may exceed the physical RAM).

This filter can be configured to allow a fixed amount of RAM overcommitment by using the ram_allocation_ratio configuration option in nova.conf. The default setting is:

ram_allocation_ratio=1.5

This setting enables 1.5 GB instances to run on any compute node with 1 GB of free RAM.

Filter out hosts that have already been attempted for scheduling purposes. If the scheduler selects a host to respond to a service request, and the host fails to respond to the request, this filter prevents the scheduler from retrying that host for the service request.

This filter is only useful if the scheduler_max_attempts configuration option is set to a value greater than zero.

Schedule the instance on the same host as another instance in a set of instances. To take advantage of this filter, the requester must pass a scheduler hint, using same_host as the key and a list of instance uuids as the value. This filter is the opposite of the DifferentHostFilter. Using the nova command-line tool, use the --hint flag:

$ nova boot --image cedef40a-ed67-4d10-800e-17455edce175 --flavor 1 \
  --hint same_host=a0cf03a5-d921-4877-bb5c-86d26cf818e1 \
  --hint same_host=8c19174f-4220-44f0-824a-cd1eeef10287 server-1

With the API, use the os:scheduler_hints key:

{
    "server": {
        "name": "server-1",
        "imageRef": "cedef40a-ed67-4d10-800e-17455edce175",
        "flavorRef": "1"
    },
    "os:scheduler_hints": {
        "same_host": [
            "a0cf03a5-d921-4877-bb5c-86d26cf818e1",
            "8c19174f-4220-44f0-824a-cd1eeef10287"
        ]
    }
}

The ServerGroupAffinityFilter ensures that an instance is scheduled on to a host from a set of group hosts. To take advantage of this filter, the requester must create a server group with an affinity policy, and pass a scheduler hint, using group as the key and the server group UUID as the value. Using the nova command-line tool, use the --hint flag. For example:

$ nova server-group-create --policy affinity group-1
$ nova boot --image IMAGE_ID --flavor 1 --hint group=SERVER_GROUP_UUID server-1

The ServerGroupAntiAffinityFilter ensures that each instance in a group is on a different host. To take advantage of this filter, the requester must create a server group with an anti-affinity policy, and pass a scheduler hint, using group as the key and the server group UUID as the value. Using the nova command-line tool, use the --hint flag. For example:

$ nova server-group-create --policy anti-affinity group-1
$ nova boot --image IMAGE_ID --flavor 1 --hint group=SERVER_GROUP_UUID server-1

Schedule the instance based on host IP subnet range. To take advantage of this filter, the requester must specify a range of valid IP address in CIDR format, by passing two scheduler hints:

Using the nova command-line tool, use the --hint flag. For example, to specify the IP subnet 192.168.1.1/24

$ nova boot --image cedef40a-ed67-4d10-800e-17455edce175 --flavor 1 \
  --hint build_near_host_ip=192.168.1.1 --hint cidr=/24 server-1

With the API, use the os:scheduler_hints key:

{
    "server": {
        "name": "server-1",
        "imageRef": "cedef40a-ed67-4d10-800e-17455edce175",
        "flavorRef": "1"
    },
    "os:scheduler_hints": {
        "build_near_host_ip": "192.168.1.1",
        "cidr": "24"
    }
}