ConfigurationΒΆ

Once opie is installed you should enable it in your nova.conf configuration file.

opie implements a different host manager and scheduler, compatible with the original FilterScheduler, so ensure that your configuration file contains the following in the [DEFAULT] section:

[DEFAULT]
scheduler_driver = opie.scheduler.filter_scheduler.FilterScheduler
scheduler_host_manager = opie.scheduler.host_manager.HostManager

Moreover, in order to do a proper scheduling, opie implements two additional weighers:

  • PreemptibleDurationWeigher: This weigher assumes that you are charging your users on 1h periods, therefire it will assign weights based on 1h-period consumptions. This way, the machines with the largest remainder (that is, time above 1h-periods) will get the lowest weight. For instance, if machine A has 1h 59min it will get a weight lower than a machine with 1h 01min running time.
  • PreemptibleCountWeigher: This will assign weights based on the number of preemptible instances that are running on a host.

You can enable both weighers and its multipliers by adding the following configuration options to the [DEFAULT] section:

scheduler_weight_classes = (...), opie.scheduler.weights.preemptible.PreemptibleDurationWeigher, opie.scheduler.weights.preemptible.PreemptibleCountWeigher
preemptible_count_weight_multiplier = 1000.0
preemptible_duration_weight_multiplier = 1000.0

Once the scheduler is configured, ensure that you restart your nova-scheduler service:

service nova-scheduler restart