Thanks Julien, I will write up a blueprint soon. Shengjie
-----Original Message----- From: Julien Danjou [mailto:jul...@danjou.info] Sent: 07 November 2012 18:12 To: Min, Shengjie Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] Hbase storage backend for Ceilometer - blueprint? On Wed, Nov 07 2012, shengjie_...@dell.com wrote: Hi Shengjie, > I am looking for a way to propose a blueprint to the ceilometer team - > "Adding Hbase storage backend for ceilometer". Currently we have only > MongoDB and SQLalchemy as the possible ceilometer storage backend. > Given the storage interface is clearly designed and allows us to have > different backend, it would be nice to have more options which make > Ceilometer more adoptive to some providers' existing architectures. As > a cloud IAAS provider, Ceilometer might not be just considered as a > usage db, also it's being seen as a centralized place to store all the > usage data cross platforms. Additionally, all the historical usage > data stored can be used for historical usage analysis as well, this is > where MapReduce comes into play. With Hadoop Hbase, it allows usage > data to be stored in HDFS, also it gives us the ability to run large > scale massive MapRed analysis jobs in the future. This is indeed a good idea, and as you pointed out, Ceilometer collector has been designed so this is being possible. I think you can create a blueprint here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer And write in what should be done. -- Julien Danjou ;; Free Software hacker & freelance ;; http://julien.danjou.info _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp