This capability could be very important to many. The minimization of the number of hosts used can be for power saving or for using those hosts for other purposes. Spreading out the load does potentially produce performance benefits.
So I encourage discussion and work on this. (But I'm not going to work on the code. :-) --henry On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Andy Kurth (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-296?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14155038#comment-14155038 > ] > > Andy Kurth commented on VCL-296: > -------------------------------- > > This needs a fair amount of discussion. It would be good if the scope > of this issue is broadened to cover VM scheduling optimization for > performance and power saving. I have some ideas regarding this. > Whoever decides to work on this, please start a thread on the dev > list. > > > option for VM placement to minimize VM hosts or to spread load > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: VCL-296 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-296 > > Project: VCL > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Components: web gui (frontend) > > Reporter: Josh Thompson > > Priority: Minor > > > > A configuration option needs to exist to configure the scheduler to > either minizimize the number of used VM hosts by fully utilizing each > existing host before provisioning a new one, or to spread the load out over > a set of existing VM hosts by minimizing the number of VMs on each host. > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.3.4#6332) >
