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NAME

       hbal - Cluster balancer for Ganeti

SYNOPSIS

       hbal {backend options...} [algorithm options...] [reporting options...]

       hbal --version

       Backend options:

       { -m cluster | -L[ path ] [-X] | -t data-file | -I path }

       Algorithm options:

       [  --max-cpu  *cpu-ratio* ] [ --min-disk *disk-ratio* ] [ -l *limit* ] [ -e *score* ] [ -g
       *delta* ] [ --min-gain-limit *threshold*  ]  [  -O  *name...*  ]  [  --no-disk-moves  ]  [
       --no-instance-moves  ]  [  -U  *util-file*  ] [ --ignore-dynu ] [ --ignore-soft-errors ] [
       --mond *yes|no* ] [ --mond-xen  ]  [  --exit-on-missing-mond-data  ]  [  --evac-mode  ]  [
       --restricted-migration  ] [ --select-instances *inst...* ] [ --exclude-instances *inst...*
       ]

       Reporting options:

       [ -C[ *file* ] ] [ -p[ *fields* ] ] [ --print-instances ] [ -S *file* ] [ -v... | -q ]

DESCRIPTION

       hbal is a cluster balancer that looks at the current state  of  the  cluster  (nodes  with
       their  total  and free disk, memory, etc.) and instance placement and computes a series of
       steps designed to bring the cluster into a better state.

       The algorithm used is designed to be stable (i.e.  it will give you the same results  when
       restarting  it  from the middle of the solution) and reasonably fast.  It is not, however,
       designed to be a perfect algorithm: it is possible to make it go into a corner from  which
       it can find no improvement, because it looks only one "step" ahead.

       The  program  accesses the cluster state via Rapi or Luxi.  It also requests data over the
       network from all MonDs with the --mond option.  Currently it uses only  data  produced  by
       CPUload collector.

       By  default,  the  program  will  show  the solution incrementally as it is computed, in a
       somewhat cryptic format; for getting the actual Ganeti command list, use the -C option.

   ALGORITHM
       The program works in independent steps; at each step, we compute the  best  instance  move
       that lowers the cluster score.

       The  possible  move  type  for  an  instance  are  combinations  of  failover/migrate  and
       replace-disks such that we change one of the instance nodes, and  the  other  one  remains
       (but possibly with changed role, e.g.  from primary it becomes secondary).  The list is:

       · failover (f)

       · replace secondary (r)

       · replace primary, a composite move (f, r, f)

       · failover and replace secondary, also composite (f, r)

       · replace secondary and failover, also composite (r, f)

       We  don't  do  the  only  remaining  possibility  of  replacing both nodes (r,f,r,f or the
       equivalent f,r,f,r) since these move  needs  an  exhaustive  search  over  both  candidate
       primary  and  secondary  nodes,  and  is  O(n*n)  in the number of nodes.  Furthermore, it
       doesn't seems to give better scores but will result in more disk replacements.

   PLACEMENT RESTRICTIONS
       At each step, we prevent an instance move if it would cause:

       · a node to go into N+1 failure state

       · an instance to move onto an offline node (offline nodes are either read from the cluster
         or declared with -O; drained nodes are considered offline)

       · an exclusion-tag based conflict (exclusion tags are read from the cluster and/or defined
         via the --exclusion-tags option)

       · a max vcpu/pcpu ratio to be exceeded (configured via --max-cpu)

       · min disk free percentage to go below the configured limit (configured via --min-disk)

   CLUSTER SCORING
       As said before, the algorithm tries to minimise the cluster score at each step.  Currently
       this score is computed as a weighted sum of the following components:

       · standard deviation of the percent of free memory

       · standard deviation of the percent of reserved memory

       · the sum of the percentages of reserved memory

       · standard deviation of the percent of free disk

       · count of nodes failing N+1 check

       · count  of  instances  living  (either  as primary or secondary) on offline nodes; in the
         sense of hbal (and the other htools) drained nodes are considered offline

       · count of instances living (as primary) on offline nodes; this  differs  from  the  above
         metric by helping failover of such instances in 2-node clusters

       · standard  deviation  of  the ratio of virtual-to-physical cpus (for primary instances of
         the node)

       · standard deviation of the  fraction  of  the  available  spindles  (in  dedicated  mode,
         spindles  represent  physical  spindles;  otherwise this oversubscribable measure for IO
         load, and the oversubscription factor is taken into account when computing the number of
         available spindles)

       · standard deviation of the dynamic load on the nodes, for cpus, memory, disk and network

       · standard deviation of the CPU load provided by MonD

       · the count of instances with primary and secondary in the same failure domain

       · the count of instances sharing the same exclusion tags which primary instances placed in
         the same failure domain

       · the overall sum of dissatisfied desired locations among all cluster instances

       The free memory and free disk values help ensure that all nodes are somewhat  balanced  in
       their  resource  usage.   The  reserved  memory  helps  to  ensure that nodes are somewhat
       balanced in holding secondary instances, and that no node keeps too much  memory  reserved
       for  N+1.   And  finally, the N+1 percentage helps guide the algorithm towards eliminating
       N+1 failures, if possible.

       Except for the N+1 failures, offline instances counts, failure domain violation counts and
       desired  locations count, we use the standard deviation since when used with values within
       a fixed range (we use percents  expressed  as  values  between  zero  and  one)  it  gives
       consistent  results  across  all metrics (there are some small issues related to different
       means, but it works generally well).  The 'count' type values will have higher  score  and
       thus  will  matter  more  for  balancing; thus these are better for hard constraints (like
       evacuating nodes and fixing N+1 failures).  For example, the offline instances count (i.e.
       the number of instances living on offline nodes) will cause the algorithm to actively move
       instances away from offline nodes.  This, coupled with the restriction on placement  given
       by offline nodes, will cause evacuation of such nodes.

       The  dynamic  load  values  need  to  be read from an external file (Ganeti doesn't supply
       them), and are computed for each node as: sum of primary instance cpu load, sum of primary
       instance  memory  load, sum of primary and secondary instance disk load (as DRBD generates
       write load on secondary nodes too in normal case  and  in  degraded  scenarios  also  read
       load),  and  sum  of  primary  instance network load.  An example of how to generate these
       values for input to hbal would be to track xm  list  for  instances  over  a  day  and  by
       computing  the  delta of the cpu values, and feed that via the -U option for all instances
       (and keep the other metrics as one).  For the algorithm to work, all  that  is  needed  is
       that  the values are consistent for a metric across all instances (e.g.  all instances use
       cpu% to report cpu usage, and not something related to number of CPU seconds used  if  the
       CPUs are different), and that they are normalised to between zero and one.  Note that it's
       recommended to not have zero as  the  load  value  for  any  instance  metric  since  then
       secondary instances are not well balanced.

       The  CPUload  from  MonD's  data  collector  will  be  used only if all MonDs are running,
       otherwise it won't affect the cluster score.  Since we can't find the  CPU  load  of  each
       instance,  we can assume that the CPU load of an instance is proportional to the number of
       its vcpus.  With this heuristic, instances from nodes with high CPU load will tend to move
       to nodes with less CPU load.

       On  a perfectly balanced cluster (all nodes the same size, all instances the same size and
       spread across the nodes equally, all desired locations  satisfied),  the  values  for  all
       metrics  would  be  zero,  with  the exception of the total percentage of reserved memory.
       This doesn't happen too often in practice :)

   OFFLINE INSTANCES
       Since current Ganeti versions do not report the memory used by offline  (down)  instances,
       ignoring  the run status of instances will cause wrong calculations.  For this reason, the
       algorithm subtracts the memory size of down instances from the free node memory  of  their
       primary node, in effect simulating the startup of such instances.

   DESIRED LOCATION TAGS
       Sometimes,  administrators  want  specific  instances  located  in a particular, typically
       geographic, location.  To suppoer this desired location tags are introduced.

       If the cluster is tagged htools:desiredlocation:x then tags starting with  x  are  desired
       location  tags.   Instances  can  be  assigned tags of the form x that means that instance
       wants to be placed on a node tagged with a location  tag  x.   (That  means  that  cluster
       should be tagged htools:nlocation:x too).

       Instance  pinning  is  just  heuristics,  not a hard enforced requirement; it will only be
       achieved by the cluster metrics favouring such placements.

   EXCLUSION TAGS
       The exclusion tags mechanism is designed to prevent instances which run the same  workload
       (e.g.   two  DNS servers) to land on the same node, which would make the respective node a
       SPOF for the given service.

       It works by tagging instances with certain tags and then building exclusion maps based  on
       these.   Which  tags  are  actually used is configured either via the command line (option
       --exclusion-tags) or via adding them to the cluster tags:

       --exclusion-tags=a,b
              This will make all instance tags of  the  form  a:*,  b:*  be  considered  for  the
              exclusion map

       cluster tags htools:iextags:a, htools:iextags:b
              This  will  make  instance tags a:*, b:* be considered for the exclusion map.  More
              precisely, the suffix of cluster tags starting with htools:iextags: will become the
              prefix of the exclusion tags.

       Both  the  above  forms  mean that two instances both having (e.g.) the tag a:foo or b:bar
       won't end on the same node.

   MIGRATION TAGS
       If Ganeti is deployed on a heterogeneous cluster, migration might not be possible  between
       all  nodes  of  a node group.  One example of such a situation is upgrading the hypervisor
       node by node.  To make hbal aware of those restrictions, the following  cluster  tags  are
       used.

       cluster tags htools:migration:a, htools:migration:b, etc
              This  make  make  node  tags  of  the  form  a:*,  b:*, etc be considered migration
              restriction.   More  precisely,  the  suffix  of   cluster   tags   starting   with
              htools:migration:  will  become  the  prefix  of  the  migration  tags.  Only those
              migrations will be taken into consideration where all migration tags of the  source
              node are also present on the target node.

       cluster tags htools:allowmigration:x::y for migration tags x and y
              This asserts that a node taged y is able to receive instances in the same way as if
              they had an x tag.

       So in the simple case of a hypervisor upgrade,  tagging  all  the  nodes  that  have  been
       upgraded  with  a  migration  tag  suffices.  In more complicated situations, it is always
       possible to use a different migration tag for each hypervisor used and explictly state the
       allowed migration directions by means of htools:allowmigration: tags.

   LOCATION TAGS
       Within  a  node  group, certain nodes might be more likely to fail simultaneously due to a
       common cause of error (e.g., if they share the same power supply  unit).   Ganeti  can  be
       made aware of thos common causes of failure by means of tags.

       cluster tags htools:nlocation:a, htools:nlocation:b, etc
              This  make  make node tags of the form a:*, b:*, etc be considered to have a common
              cause of failure.

       Instances with primary and secondary node having a common cause of failure  and  instances
       sharing  the  same exclusion tag with primary nodes having a common failure are considered
       badly placed.  While such placements are always allowed, they count  heavily  towards  the
       cluster score.

OPTIONS

       The options that can be passed to the program are as follows:

       -C, --print-commands
              Print  the command list at the end of the run.  Without this, the program will only
              show a shorter, but cryptic output.

              Note that the moves list will be split into independent  steps,  called  "jobsets",
              but  only  for  visual  inspection,  not  for  actually parallelisation.  It is not
              possible to parallelise these directly when executed via  "gnt-instance"  commands,
              since  a  compound  command  (e.g.   failover  and  replace-disks) must be executed
              serially.  Parallel execution is only possible when using the Luxi backend and  the
              -L option.

              The  algorithm  for splitting the moves into jobsets is by accumulating moves until
              the next move is touching nodes already touched by the current moves; this means we
              can't  execute in parallel (due to resource allocation in Ganeti) and thus we start
              a new jobset.

       -p, --print-nodes
              Prints the before and after node status, in a format designed to allow the user  to
              understand  the  node's  most important parameters.  See the man page htools(1) for
              more details about this option.

       --print-instances
              Prints the before and after instance map.  This is less useful as the node  status,
              but it can help in understanding instance moves.

       -O name
              This  option  (which can be given multiple times) will mark nodes as being offline.
              This means a couple of things:

              · instances won't be placed on these nodes, not even temporarily; e.g.  the replace
                primary  move  is not available if the secondary node is offline, since this move
                requires a failover.

              · these nodes will not be  included  in  the  score  calculation  (except  for  the
                percentage of instances on offline nodes)

              Note  that algorithm will also mark as offline any nodes which are reported by RAPI
              as such, or that have "?" in file-based input in any numeric fields.

       -e score, --min-score=*score*
              This parameter denotes how much above the N+1 bound the cluster score can for us to
              be happy with and alters the computation in two ways:

              · if  the  cluster has the initial score lower than this value, then we don't enter
                the algorithm at all, and exit with success

              · during the iterative process, if we reach a score lower than this value, we  exit
                the algorithm

              The default value of the parameter is currently 1e-9 (chosen empirically).

       -g delta, --min-gain=*delta*
              Since  the balancing algorithm can sometimes result in just very tiny improvements,
              that bring less gain that they cost in relocation time, this parameter  (defaulting
              to  0.01)  represents  the  minimum  gain  we  require  during  a step, to continue
              balancing.

       --min-gain-limit=*threshold*
              The above min-gain option will only take effect if the  cluster  score  is  already
              below  threshold  (defaults  to 0.1).  The rationale behind this setting is that at
              high cluster scores (badly balanced clusters), we don't want to abort the rebalance
              too  quickly,  as  later  gains  might  still  be  significant.  However, under the
              threshold, the total gain is only the threshold value, so we can exit early.

       --no-disk-moves
              This  parameter  prevents  hbal  from  using   disk   move   (i.e.    "gnt-instance
              replace-disks")  operations.   This will result in a much quicker balancing, but of
              course the improvements are limited.  It is up to the user to decide  when  to  use
              one or another.

       --no-instance-moves
              This  parameter  prevents  hbal  from  using  instance  moves  (i.e.  "gnt-instance
              migrate/failover") operations.   This  will  only  use  the  slow  disk-replacement
              operations,  and  will  also  provide  a worse balance, but can be useful if moving
              instances around is deemed unsafe or not preferred.

       --evac-mode
              This parameter restricts the list of instances considered for moving  to  the  ones
              living  on  offline/drained  nodes.   It  can  be  used as a (bulk) replacement for
              Ganeti's own gnt-node evacuate, with  the  note  that  it  doesn't  guarantee  full
              evacuation.

       --restricted-migration
              This  parameter  disallows  any  replace-primary  moves  (frf),  as  well  as those
              replace-and-failover moves (rf) where the primary  node  of  the  instance  is  not
              drained.   If  used  together with the --evac-mode option, the only migrations that
              hbal will do are migrations of instances off a drained node.  This can be useful if
              during a reinstall of the base operating system migration is only possible from the
              old OS to the new OS.  Note, however, that usually the use of migration tags is the
              better choice.

       --select-instances=*instances*
              This  parameter  marks  the given instances (as a comma-separated list) as the only
              ones being moved during the rebalance.

       --exclude-instances=*instances*
              This parameter marks the given instances (as a  comma-separated  list)  from  being
              moved during the rebalance.

       -U util-file
              This  parameter  specifies  a file holding instance dynamic utilisation information
              that will be used to tweak the balancing algorithm to equalise load  on  the  nodes
              (as  opposed  to  static resource usage).  The file is in the format "instance_name
              cpu_util mem_util disk_util net_util" where the "_util" parameters are  interpreted
              as  numbers  and  the  instance  name  must match exactly the instance as read from
              Ganeti.  In case of unknown instance names, the program will abort.

              If not given, the  default  values  are  one  for  all  metrics  and  thus  dynamic
              utilisation has only one effect on the algorithm: the equalisation of the secondary
              instances across nodes (this is the only metric that is  not  tracked  by  another,
              dedicated  value, and thus the disk load of instances will cause secondary instance
              equalisation).  Note that value of one will also  influence  slightly  the  primary
              instance  count,  but  that  is  already  tracked  via  other  metrics and thus the
              influence of the dynamic utilisation will be practically insignificant.

       --ignore-dynu
              If given, all dynamic utilisation information will be ignored by assuming it to  be
              0.   This  option  will take precedence over any data passed by the -U option or by
              the MonDs with the --mond and the --mond-data option.

       --ignore-soft-errors
              If given, all checks for soft errors will be ommitted  when  considering  balancing
              moves.   In  this  way,  progress can be made in a cluster where all nodes are in a
              policy-wise bad state, like exceeding oversubscription ratios on CPU or spindles.

       -S filename, --save-cluster=*filename*
              If given, the state of the cluster before the balancing is saved to the given  file
              plus  the  extension "original" (i.e.  filename.original), and the state at the end
              of the balancing is saved to the given file plus  the  extension  "balanced"  (i.e.
              filename.balanced).  This allows re-feeding the cluster state to either hbal itself
              or for example hspace via the -t option.

       -t datafile, --text-data=*datafile*
              Backend specification: the name of the file holding node and  instance  information
              (if  not  collecting  via RAPI or LUXI).  This or one of the other backends must be
              selected.  The option is described in the man page htools(1).

       --mond=*yes|no*
              If given the program will query all MonDs to fetch data  from  the  supported  data
              collectors over the network.

       --mond-xen
              If  given,  also  query Xen-specific collectors from MonD, provided that monitoring
              daemons are queried at all.

       --exit-on-missing-mond-data
              If given, abort if the data obtainable from  querying  MonDs  is  incomplete.   The
              default behavior is to continue with a best guess based on the static information.

       --mond-data datafile
              The  name  of the file holding the data provided by MonD, to override quering MonDs
              over the network.  This is mostly used for debugging.  The file  must  be  in  JSON
              format and present an array of JSON objects , one for every node, with two members.
              The first member named node is the name of the node and  the  second  member  named
              reports  is  an  array  of  report objects.  The report objects must be in the same
              format as produced by the monitoring agent.

       -m cluster
              Backend specification: collect data directly from the cluster given as an  argument
              via RAPI.  The option is described in the man page htools(1).

       -L [path]
              Backend specification: collect data directly from the master daemon, which is to be
              contacted via LUXI (an internal Ganeti protocol).  The option is described  in  the
              man page htools(1).

       -X     When  using  the  Luxi  backend,  hbal  can  also  execute the given commands.  The
              execution method is to execute the  individual  jobsets  (see  the  -C  option  for
              details) in separate stages, aborting if at any time a jobset doesn't have all jobs
              successful.  Each step in the balancing solution will be  translated  into  exactly
              one  Ganeti  job  (having  between  one  and three OpCodes), and all the steps in a
              jobset will be executed in parallel.  The jobsets themselves are executed serially.

              The execution of the job series can be interrupted, see below for signal handling.

       -l N, --max-length=*N*
              Restrict the solution to this length.  This can be used for example to automate the
              execution of the balancing.

       --max-cpu=*cpu-ratio*
              The  maximum virtual to physical cpu ratio, as a floating point number greater than
              or equal to one.  For example, specifying cpu-ratio as 2.5 means that, for a  4-cpu
              machine,  a  maximum  of 10 virtual cpus should be allowed to be in use for primary
              instances.  A value of exactly one means there will be no over-subscription of  CPU
              (except for the CPU time used by the node itself), and values below one do not make
              sense, as that means other resources (e.g.  disk) won't be fully  utilised  due  to
              CPU restrictions.

       --min-disk=*disk-ratio*
              The  minimum  amount of free disk space remaining, as a floating point number.  For
              example, specifying disk-ratio as 0.25 means that at  least  one  quarter  of  disk
              space should be left free on nodes.

       -G uuid, --group=*uuid*
              On  an  multi-group cluster, select this group for processing.  Otherwise hbal will
              abort, since it cannot balance multiple groups at the same time.

       -v, --verbose
              Increase the output verbosity.   Each  usage  of  this  option  will  increase  the
              verbosity (currently more than 2 doesn't make sense) from the default of one.

       -q, --quiet
              Decrease  the  output  verbosity.   Each  usage  of  this  option will decrease the
              verbosity (less than zero doesn't make sense) from the default of one.

       -V, --version
              Just show the program version and exit.

SIGNAL HANDLING

       When executing jobs via LUXI (using the -X option), normally hbal will  execute  all  jobs
       until either one errors out or all the jobs finish successfully.

       Since balancing can take a long time, it is possible to stop hbal early in two ways:

       · by  sending  a  SIGINT  (^C),  hbal will register the termination request, and will wait
         until the currently submitted jobs finish, at which point it will exit (with exit code 0
         if all jobs finished correctly, otherwise with exit code 1 as usual)

       · by  sending  a  SIGTERM,  hbal  will  immediately  exit  (with  exit  code 2); it is the
         responsibility of the user to follow  up  with  Ganeti  and  check  the  result  of  the
         currently-executing jobs

       Note that in any situation, it's perfectly safe to kill hbal, either via the above signals
       or via any other signal (e.g.  SIGQUIT, SIGKILL), since the jobs themselves are  processed
       by  Ganeti  whereas hbal (after submission) only watches their progression.  In this case,
       the user will have to query Ganeti for job results.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status of the command will be zero, unless for some reason the  algorithm  failed
       (e.g.   wrong  node  or  instance  data), invalid command line options, or (in case of job
       execution) one of the jobs has failed.

       Once job execution via Luxi has started (-X), if the balancing was interrupted early  (via
       SIGINT,  or  via --max-length) but all jobs executed successfully, then the exit status is
       zero; a non-zero exit code means that the cluster state should be  investigated,  since  a
       job  failed  or we couldn't compute its status and this can also point to a problem on the
       Ganeti side.

BUGS

       The program does not check all its input data for consistency, and  sometime  aborts  with
       cryptic errors messages with invalid data.

       The algorithm is not perfect.

EXAMPLE

       Note that these examples are not for the latest version (they don't have full node data).

   Default output
       With  the  default options, the program shows each individual step and the improvements it
       brings in cluster score:

              $ hbal
              Loaded 20 nodes, 80 instances
              Cluster is not N+1 happy, continuing but no guarantee that the cluster will end N+1 happy.
              Initial score: 0.52329131
              Trying to minimize the CV...
                  1. instance14  node1:node10  => node16:node10 0.42109120 a=f r:node16 f
                  2. instance54  node4:node15  => node16:node15 0.31904594 a=f r:node16 f
                  3. instance4   node5:node2   => node2:node16  0.26611015 a=f r:node16
                  4. instance48  node18:node20 => node2:node18  0.21361717 a=r:node2 f
                  5. instance93  node19:node18 => node16:node19 0.16166425 a=r:node16 f
                  6. instance89  node3:node20  => node2:node3   0.11005629 a=r:node2 f
                  7. instance5   node6:node2   => node16:node6  0.05841589 a=r:node16 f
                  8. instance94  node7:node20  => node20:node16 0.00658759 a=f r:node16
                  9. instance44  node20:node2  => node2:node15  0.00438740 a=f r:node15
                 10. instance62  node14:node18 => node14:node16 0.00390087 a=r:node16
                 11. instance13  node11:node14 => node11:node16 0.00361787 a=r:node16
                 12. instance19  node10:node11 => node10:node7  0.00336636 a=r:node7
                 13. instance43  node12:node13 => node12:node1  0.00305681 a=r:node1
                 14. instance1   node1:node2   => node1:node4   0.00263124 a=r:node4
                 15. instance58  node19:node20 => node19:node17 0.00252594 a=r:node17
              Cluster score improved from 0.52329131 to 0.00252594

       In the above output, we can see:

       · the input data (here from files) shows a cluster with 20 nodes and 80 instances

       · the cluster is not initially N+1 compliant

       · the initial score is 0.52329131

       The step list follows, showing the instance, its initial primary/secondary nodes, the  new
       primary secondary, the cluster list, and the actions taken in this step (with 'f' denoting
       failover/migrate and 'r' denoting replace secondary).

       Finally, the program shows the improvement in cluster score.

       A more detailed output is obtained via the -C and -p options:

              $ hbal
              Loaded 20 nodes, 80 instances
              Cluster is not N+1 happy, continuing but no guarantee that the cluster will end N+1 happy.
              Initial cluster status:
              N1 Name   t_mem f_mem r_mem t_dsk f_dsk pri sec  p_fmem  p_fdsk
               * node1  32762  1280  6000  1861  1026   5   3 0.03907 0.55179
                 node2  32762 31280 12000  1861  1026   0   8 0.95476 0.55179
               * node3  32762  1280  6000  1861  1026   5   3 0.03907 0.55179
               * node4  32762  1280  6000  1861  1026   5   3 0.03907 0.55179
               * node5  32762  1280  6000  1861   978   5   5 0.03907 0.52573
               * node6  32762  1280  6000  1861  1026   5   3 0.03907 0.55179
               * node7  32762  1280  6000  1861  1026   5   3 0.03907 0.55179
                 node8  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node9  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
               * node10 32762  7280 12000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node11 32762  7280  6000  1861   922   4   5 0.22221 0.49577
                 node12 32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node13 32762  7280  6000  1861   922   4   5 0.22221 0.49577
                 node14 32762  7280  6000  1861   922   4   5 0.22221 0.49577
               * node15 32762  7280 12000  1861  1131   4   3 0.22221 0.60782
                 node16 32762 31280     0  1861  1860   0   0 0.95476 1.00000
                 node17 32762  7280  6000  1861  1106   5   3 0.22221 0.59479
               * node18 32762  1280  6000  1396   561   5   3 0.03907 0.40239
               * node19 32762  1280  6000  1861  1026   5   3 0.03907 0.55179
                 node20 32762 13280 12000  1861   689   3   9 0.40535 0.37068

              Initial score: 0.52329131
              Trying to minimize the CV...
                  1. instance14  node1:node10  => node16:node10 0.42109120 a=f r:node16 f
                  2. instance54  node4:node15  => node16:node15 0.31904594 a=f r:node16 f
                  3. instance4   node5:node2   => node2:node16  0.26611015 a=f r:node16
                  4. instance48  node18:node20 => node2:node18  0.21361717 a=r:node2 f
                  5. instance93  node19:node18 => node16:node19 0.16166425 a=r:node16 f
                  6. instance89  node3:node20  => node2:node3   0.11005629 a=r:node2 f
                  7. instance5   node6:node2   => node16:node6  0.05841589 a=r:node16 f
                  8. instance94  node7:node20  => node20:node16 0.00658759 a=f r:node16
                  9. instance44  node20:node2  => node2:node15  0.00438740 a=f r:node15
                 10. instance62  node14:node18 => node14:node16 0.00390087 a=r:node16
                 11. instance13  node11:node14 => node11:node16 0.00361787 a=r:node16
                 12. instance19  node10:node11 => node10:node7  0.00336636 a=r:node7
                 13. instance43  node12:node13 => node12:node1  0.00305681 a=r:node1
                 14. instance1   node1:node2   => node1:node4   0.00263124 a=r:node4
                 15. instance58  node19:node20 => node19:node17 0.00252594 a=r:node17
              Cluster score improved from 0.52329131 to 0.00252594

              Commands to run to reach the above solution:
                echo step 1
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance14
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node16 instance14
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance14
                echo step 2
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance54
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node16 instance54
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance54
                echo step 3
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance4
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node16 instance4
                echo step 4
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node2 instance48
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance48
                echo step 5
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node16 instance93
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance93
                echo step 6
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node2 instance89
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance89
                echo step 7
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node16 instance5
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance5
                echo step 8
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance94
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node16 instance94
                echo step 9
                echo gnt-instance migrate instance44
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node15 instance44
                echo step 10
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node16 instance62
                echo step 11
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node16 instance13
                echo step 12
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node7 instance19
                echo step 13
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node1 instance43
                echo step 14
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node4 instance1
                echo step 15
                echo gnt-instance replace-disks -n node17 instance58

              Final cluster status:
              N1 Name   t_mem f_mem r_mem t_dsk f_dsk pri sec  p_fmem  p_fdsk
                 node1  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node2  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node3  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node4  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node5  32762  7280  6000  1861  1078   4   5 0.22221 0.57947
                 node6  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node7  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node8  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node9  32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node10 32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node11 32762  7280  6000  1861  1022   4   4 0.22221 0.54951
                 node12 32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node13 32762  7280  6000  1861  1022   4   4 0.22221 0.54951
                 node14 32762  7280  6000  1861  1022   4   4 0.22221 0.54951
                 node15 32762  7280  6000  1861  1031   4   4 0.22221 0.55408
                 node16 32762  7280  6000  1861  1060   4   4 0.22221 0.57007
                 node17 32762  7280  6000  1861  1006   5   4 0.22221 0.54105
                 node18 32762  7280  6000  1396   761   4   2 0.22221 0.54570
                 node19 32762  7280  6000  1861  1026   4   4 0.22221 0.55179
                 node20 32762 13280  6000  1861  1089   3   5 0.40535 0.58565

       Here we see, beside the step list, the initial and final cluster status,  with  the  final
       one  showing  all  nodes  being  N+1  compliant,  and  the command list to reach the final
       solution.  In the initial listing, we see which nodes are not N+1 compliant.

       The algorithm is stable as long as each step above is fully completed, e.g.   in  step  8,
       both  the migrate and the replace-disks are done.  Otherwise, if only the migrate is done,
       the input data is changed in a way that the program will output a different solution  list
       (but hopefully will end in the same state).

REPORTING BUGS

       Report   bugs   to  project  website  (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/)  or  contact  the
       developers using the Ganeti mailing list (ganeti@googlegroups.com).

SEE ALSO

       Ganeti overview and specifications: ganeti(7) (general  overview),  ganeti-os-interface(7)
       (guest OS definitions), ganeti-extstorage-interface(7) (external storage providers).

       Ganeti   commands:   gnt-cluster(8)   (cluster-wide   commands),  gnt-job(8)  (job-related
       commands),  gnt-node(8)  (node-related  commands),  gnt-instance(8)  (instance  commands),
       gnt-os(8) (guest OS commands), gnt-storage(8) (storage commands), gnt-group(8) (node group
       commands), gnt-backup(8) (instance import/export commands), gnt-debug(8) (debug commands).

       Ganeti daemons: ganeti-watcher(8) (automatic instance restarter),  ganeti-cleaner(8)  (job
       queue cleaner), ganeti-noded(8) (node daemon), ganeti-rapi(8) (remote API daemon).

       Ganeti htools: htools(1) (generic binary), hbal(1) (cluster balancer), hspace(1) (capacity
       calculation), hail(1) (IAllocator plugin), hscan(1) (data gatherer from remote  clusters),
       hinfo(1) (cluster information printer), mon-collector(7) (data collectors interface).

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