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NAME
hspace - Cluster space analyzer for Ganeti
SYNOPSIS
hspace {backend options...} [algorithm options...] [request options...] [output options...] [-v... | -q]
hspace --version
Backend options:
{ -m cluster | -L[ path ] [-X] | -t data-file | --simulate spec | -I path }
Algorithm options:
[ --max-cpu cpu-ratio ] [ --min-disk disk-ratio ] [ -O name... ]
Request options:
[--disk-template template ]
[--standard-alloc disk,ram,cpu ]
[--tiered-alloc disk,ram,cpu ]
Output options:
[--machine-readable[=CHOICE] ] [-p[fields]]
DESCRIPTION
hspace computes how many additional instances can be fit on a cluster, while maintaining N+1 status.
The program will try to place instances, all of the same size, on the cluster, until the point where we
don't have any N+1 possible allocation. It uses the exact same allocation algorithm as the hail
iallocator plugin in allocate mode.
The output of the program is designed either for human consumption (the default) or, when enabled with
the --machine-readable option (described further below), for machine consumption. In the latter case, it
is intended to interpreted as a shell fragment (or parsed as a key=value file). Options which extend the
output (e.g. -p, -v) will output the additional information on stderr (such that the stdout is still
parseable).
By default, the instance specifications will be read from the cluster; the options --standard-alloc and
--tiered-alloc can be used to override them.
The following keys are available in the machine-readable output of the script (all prefixed with HTS_):
SPEC_MEM, SPEC_DSK, SPEC_CPU, SPEC_RQN, SPEC_DISK_TEMPLATE
These represent the specifications of the instance model used for allocation (the memory, disk,
cpu, requested nodes, disk template).
TSPEC_INI_MEM, TSPEC_INI_DSK, TSPEC_INI_CPU, ...
Only defined when the tiered mode allocation is enabled, these are similar to the above
specifications but show the initial starting spec for tiered allocation.
CLUSTER_MEM, CLUSTER_DSK, CLUSTER_CPU, CLUSTER_NODES
These represent the total memory, disk, CPU count and total nodes in the cluster.
INI_SCORE, FIN_SCORE
These are the initial (current) and final cluster score (see the hbal man page for details about
the scoring algorithm).
INI_INST_CNT, FIN_INST_CNT
The initial and final instance count.
INI_MEM_FREE, FIN_MEM_FREE
The initial and final total free memory in the cluster (but this doesn't necessarily mean
available for use).
INI_MEM_AVAIL, FIN_MEM_AVAIL
The initial and final total available memory for allocation in the cluster. If allocating
redundant instances, new instances could increase the reserved memory so it doesn't necessarily
mean the entirety of this memory can be used for new instance allocations.
INI_MEM_RESVD, FIN_MEM_RESVD
The initial and final reserved memory (for redundancy/N+1 purposes).
INI_MEM_INST, FIN_MEM_INST
The initial and final memory used for instances (actual runtime used RAM).
INI_MEM_OVERHEAD, FIN_MEM_OVERHEAD
The initial and final memory overhead, i.e. memory used for the node itself and unaccounted
memory (e.g. due to hypervisor overhead).
INI_MEM_EFF, HTS_INI_MEM_EFF
The initial and final memory efficiency, represented as instance memory divided by total memory.
INI_DSK_FREE, INI_DSK_AVAIL, INI_DSK_RESVD, INI_DSK_INST, INI_DSK_EFF
Initial disk stats, similar to the memory ones.
FIN_DSK_FREE, FIN_DSK_AVAIL, FIN_DSK_RESVD, FIN_DSK_INST, FIN_DSK_EFF
Final disk stats, similar to the memory ones.
INI_CPU_INST, FIN_CPU_INST
Initial and final number of virtual CPUs used by instances.
INI_CPU_EFF, FIN_CPU_EFF
The initial and final CPU efficiency, represented as the count of virtual instance CPUs divided by
the total physical CPU count.
INI_MNODE_MEM_AVAIL, FIN_MNODE_MEM_AVAIL
The initial and final maximum per-node available memory. This is not very useful as a metric but
can give an impression of the status of the nodes; as an example, this value restricts the maximum
instance size that can be still created on the cluster.
INI_MNODE_DSK_AVAIL, FIN_MNODE_DSK_AVAIL
Like the above but for disk.
TSPEC This parameter holds the pairs of specifications and counts of instances that can be created in
the tiered allocation mode. The value of the key is a space-separated list of values; each value
is of the form memory,disk,vcpu=count where the memory, disk and vcpu are the values for the
current spec, and count is how many instances of this spec can be created. A complete value for
this variable could be: 4096,102400,2=225 2560,102400,2=20 512,102400,2=21.
KM_USED_CPU, KM_USED_NPU, KM_USED_MEM, KM_USED_DSK
These represents the metrics of used resources at the start of the computation (only for tiered
allocation mode). The NPU value is "normalized" CPU count, i.e. the number of virtual CPUs
divided by the maximum ratio of the virtual to physical CPUs.
KM_POOL_CPU, KM_POOL_NPU, KM_POOL_MEM, KM_POOL_DSK
These represents the total resources allocated during the tiered allocation process. In effect,
they represent how much is readily available for allocation.
KM_UNAV_CPU, KM_POOL_NPU, KM_UNAV_MEM, KM_UNAV_DSK
These represents the resources left over (either free as in unallocable or allocable on their own)
after the tiered allocation has been completed. They represent better the actual unallocable
resources, because some other resource has been exhausted. For example, the cluster might still
have 100GiB disk free, but with no memory left for instances, we cannot allocate another instance,
so in effect the disk space is unallocable. Note that the CPUs here represent instance virtual
CPUs, and in case the --max-cpu option hasn't been specified this will be -1.
ALLOC_USAGE
The current usage represented as initial number of instances divided per final number of
instances.
ALLOC_COUNT
The number of instances allocated (delta between FIN_INST_CNT and INI_INST_CNT).
ALLOC_FAIL*_CNT
For the last attemp at allocations (which would have increased FIN_INST_CNT with one, if it had
succeeded), this is the count of the failure reasons per failure type; currently defined are
FAILMEM, FAILDISK and FAILCPU which represent errors due to not enough memory, disk and CPUs, and
FAILN1 which represents a non N+1 compliant cluster on which we can't allocate instances at all.
ALLOC_FAIL_REASON
The reason for most of the failures, being one of the above FAIL* strings.
OK A marker representing the successful end of the computation, and having value "1". If this key is
not present in the output it means that the computation failed and any values present should not
be relied upon.
Many of the INI_/FIN_ metrics will be also displayed with a TRL_ prefix, and denote the cluster status at
the end of the tiered allocation run.
The human output format should be self-explanatory, so it is not described further.
OPTIONS
The options that can be passed to the program are as follows:
--disk-template template
Overrides the disk template for the instance read from the cluster; one of the Ganeti disk
templates (e.g. plain, drbd, so on) should be passed in.
--spindle-use spindles
Override the spindle use for the instance read from the cluster. The value can be 0 (for example
for instances that use very low I/O), but not negative. For shared storage the value is ignored.
--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.
-l rounds, --max-length=rounds
Restrict the number of instance allocations to this length. This is not very useful in practice,
but can be used for testing hspace itself, or to limit the runtime for very big clusters.
-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.
-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 the 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.
-S filename, --save-cluster=filename
If given, the state of the cluster at the end of the allocation is saved to a file named
filename.alloc, and if tiered allocation is enabled, the state after tiered allocation will be
saved to filename.tiered. This allows re-feeding the cluster state to either hspace itself (with
different parameters) or for example hbal, 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).
-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).
--simulate description
Backend specification: similar to the -t option, this allows overriding the cluster data with a
simulated cluster. For details about the description, see the man page htools(1).
--standard-alloc disk,ram,cpu
This option overrides the instance size read from the cluster for the standard allocation mode,
where we simply allocate instances of the same, fixed size until the cluster runs out of space.
The specification given is similar to the --simulate option and it holds:
• the disk size of the instance (units can be used)
• the memory size of the instance (units can be used)
• the vcpu count for the insance
An example description would be 100G,4g,2 describing an instance specification of 100GB of disk
space, 4GiB of memory and 2 VCPUs.
--tiered-alloc disk,ram,cpu
This option overrides the instance size for the tiered allocation mode. In this mode, the
algorithm starts from the given specification and allocates until there is no more space; then it
decreases the specification and tries the allocation again. The decrease is done on the metric
that last failed during allocation. The argument should have the same format as for --standard-
alloc.
Also note that the normal allocation and the tiered allocation are independent, and both start
from the initial cluster state; as such, the instance count for these two modes are not related
one to another.
--machine-readable[=choice]
By default, the output of the program is in "human-readable" format, i.e. text descriptions. By
passing this flag you can either enable (--machine-readable or --machine-readable=yes) or
explicitly disable (--machine-readable=no) the machine readable format described above.
-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.
UNITS
By default, all unit-accepting options use mebibytes. Using the lower-case letters of m, g and t (or
their longer equivalents of mib, gib, tib, for which case doesn't matter) explicit binary units can be
selected. Units in the SI system can be selected using the upper-case letters of M, G and T (or their
longer equivalents of MB, GB, TB, for which case doesn't matter).
More details about the difference between the SI and binary systems can be read in the units(7) man page.
EXIT STATUS
The exist status of the command will be zero, unless for some reason the algorithm fatally failed (e.g.
wrong node or instance data).
BUGS
The algorithm is highly dependent on the number of nodes; its runtime grows exponentially with this
number, and as such is impractical for really big clusters.
The algorithm doesn't rebalance the cluster or try to get the optimal fit; it just allocates in the best
place for the current step, without taking into consideration the impact on future placements.
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-masterd(8) (master 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).
COPYRIGHT
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distribute and/or modify under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
licenses/GPL.
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