These are some simple cluster tools for fixing common allocation problems on Ganeti 2.0 clusters.
Note that these tools are most useful for bigger cluster sizes (e.g. more than five or ten machines); at lower sizes, the computations they do can also be done manually.
Most of the tools revolve around the concept of keeping the cluster N+1 compliant: this means that in case of failure of any node, the instances affected can be failed over (via gnt-node failover or gnt-instance failover) to their secondary node, and there is enough memory reserved for this operation without needing to shutdown other instances or rebalance the cluster.
Quick start (see the installation section for more details):
The rebalancer uses a simple algorithm to try to get the nodes of the cluster as equal as possible in their resource usage. It tries to repeatedly move each instance one step, so that the cluster score becomes better. We stop when no further move can improve the score.
For algorithm details and usage, see the man page hbal(1).
The hail iallocator plugin can be used for allocations of mirrored and non-mirrored instances and for relocations of mirrored instances. It needs to be installed in Ganeti's iallocator search path—usually /usr/lib/ganeti/iallocators or /usr/local/lib/ganeti/iallocators, and after that it can be used via ganeti's --iallocator option (in various gnt-node/gnt-instance commands). See the man page hail(1) for more details.
The hspace program will, given an input instance specification, estimate how many instances of those type can be place on the cluster before it will become full (as in any new allocation would fail N+1 checks). For more details, see the man page hspace(1).
The hbal and hspace programs can either get their input from text files, locally from the master daemon (when run on the master node of a cluster), or remote from a cluster via RAPI. The "-L" argument enables local collection (with an optional path to the unix socket). For online collection via RAPI, the "-m" argument should specify the cluster or master node name. Only hbal and hspace use these arguments, hail uses the standard iallocator API and thus doesn't need any special setup (just needs to be installed in the right directory).
For generating the text files, a separate tool (hscan) is provided to automate their gathering if RAPI is available, which is better since it can extract more precise information. In case RAPI is not usable for whatever reason, the following two commands should be run:
gnt-node list -oname,mtotal,mnode,mfree,dtotal,dfree,ctotal,offline \ --separator '|' --no-headers > nodes gnt-instance list -oname,be/memory,sda_size,be/vcpus,status,pnode,snodes \ --separator '|' --no-head > instances
These two files should be saved under the names of nodes and instances.
The hail program gets its data automatically from Ganeti when used as described in its section.
If installing from source, you need a working ghc compiler (6.8 at least) and some extra Haskell libraries which usually need to be installed manually:
Once these are installed, just typing make in the top-level directory should be enough.
Only the hail program needs to be installed in a specific place, the other tools are not location-dependent.
For running the (admittedly small) unittest suite (via make check), the QuickCheck version 1 library is needed.
Internal (implementation) documentation is available in the apidoc directory.