On 07/09/2012 09:52 PM, Saggi Mizrahi wrote:
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From: "Itamar Heim" <ih...@redhat.com>
To: "Saggi Mizrahi" <smizr...@redhat.com>
Cc: "Adam Litke" <a...@us.ibm.com>, vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 11:03:43 AM
Subject: Re: [vdsm] [RFC] An alternative way to provide a supported interface
-- libvdsm
On 07/09/2012 05:56 PM, Saggi Mizrahi wrote:
I don't think AMQP is a good low level supported protocol as it's a
very complex protocol to set up and support.
Also brokers are known to have their differences in standard
implementation which means supporting them all is a mess.
It looks like the most accepted route is the libvirt route of
having a c library abstracting away client server communication
and having more advanced consumers build protocol specific bridges
that may have different support standards.
On a more personal note, I think brokerless messaging is the way to
go in ovirt because, unlike traditional clustering, worker nodes
are not interchangeable so direct communication is the way to go,
rendering brokers pretty much useless.
but brokerless doesn't let multiple consumers which a bus provides?
All consumers can connect to the host and *some* events can be broadcasted to
all connected clients.
The real question is weather you want to depend on AMQP's routing \ message
storing
Also, if you find it preferable to have a centralized host (single point of
failure) to get all events from all hosts for the price of some clients (I
assume read only clients) not needing to know the locations of all worker nodes.
But IMHO we already have something like that, it's called the ovirt-engine, and
it could send aggregated events about the cluster (maybe with some extra enginy
data).
The question is what does mandating a broker gives us something that an "AMQP
bridge" wouldn't.
The only thing I can think of is vdsm can assume unmoderated vdsm to vdsm
communication bypassing the engine.
This means that VDSM can have some clustered behavior that requires no engine
intervention.
Further more, the engine can send a request and let the nodes decide who is
performing the operation among themselves.
Essentially:
[ engine ] [ engine ]
| | VS |
[vdsm][vdsm] [ broker ]
| |
[vdsm][vdsm]
*All links are two way links
This has dire consequences on API usability and supportability. So we need to
converge on that.
There needs to be a good reason why the aforementioned logic code can't sit on
a another ovirt specific entity (lets call it ovirt-dynamo) that uses VDSM's
supported API but it's own APIs (or more likely messaging algorithms) are
unsupported.
[ engine ]
| | |
| [ broker ] |
| | | |
[vdsm]-[dynamo] : [dynamo]-[vdsm]
Host A : Host B
*All links are two way links
1. we have engine today 'in the path' to the history db. but it makes no
sense for engine to be aware of each statistic we want to keep in the
history db.
same would be for an event/stats correlation service.
they don't need to depend on each other for availability/redundancy.
2. we are already looking at quantum integration, which is doing engine
to nodes communication via amqp.
3. with somewhat of a forward looking - moving some scheduling logic
"down to vdsm" will probably mean we'll want one of the nodes to listen
to statistics and state from the other nodes.
to all of these, setting up a bus which allows multiple peer listeners
seems more robust
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