Re: [kubernetes-users] Re: Is it possible to pool resources across hosts/nodes like VMware does

2018-02-19 Thread Jay Pipes
The only VMWare functionality that allows a VM to be "spread across multiple hosts" is vLockstep (VMWare Fault Tolerance). This functionality makes an identical clone of a VM on another host and replays actions taken on the primary against the cloned VM. So... not really spreading a single VM

Re: [kubernetes-users] Re: Is it possible to pool resources across hosts/nodes like VMware does

2018-02-15 Thread
I read the VMWare page. AFAICT they are not saying that a VM can be spread across multiple physical hosts. A "resource pool" appears to be a quota pool. They are using a quota model somewhat like the kube-arbitrator , where quota is a guarant

Re: [kubernetes-users] Re: Is it possible to pool resources across hosts/nodes like VMware does

2018-02-15 Thread
I don't know VMWare either, but that seems disastrous from a predictability point of view. On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:02 PM, Warren Strange wrote: > > AFAIK you can not split a pod between more than one node. > > I know nothing about VMware, but I am guessing they can split VM processes > across n

[kubernetes-users] Re: Is it possible to pool resources across hosts/nodes like VMware does

2018-02-14 Thread Warren Strange
AFAIK you can not split a pod between more than one node. I know nothing about VMware, but I am guessing they can split VM processes across nodes, which is pretty much equivalent to what Kubernetes does with pods (VM process == a pod, roughly speaking). On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 8: