5516307c8b
With moving away from required milestone releases, the version numbers
calculated by PBR on the master branch will not work for those testing
upgrades from the last stable release. More details can be found in the
mailing list post here:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-October/135706.html
This is an empty commit that will cause PBR to increment its calculated
version to get around this.
PBR will see the following which will cause it to increment the version:
Sem-Ver: feature
Please merge this patch as soon as possible to support those testing
upgrades.
Change-Id: I893e8f01462d61778e6f901a95eee960a53c3ddf
Signed-off-by: Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis@gmail.com>
Team and repository tags
Support for PowerVM Performance Monitoring
The IBM PowerVM hypervisor provides virtualization on POWER hardware. PowerVM customers can see benefits in their environments by making use of OpenStack. This project implements a Ceilometer-compatible compute inspector. This inspector, along with the PowerVM Nova driver and Neutron agent, provides capability for PowerVM customers to natively monitor utilization and statistics for instances running on OpenStack-managed systems.
Problem Description
PowerVM supports a variety of performance monitoring interfaces within the platform, providing virtual machine and system monitoring data. Ceilometer-powervm implements a Ceilometer-based compute inspector for the PowerVM hypervisor.
Inspector Description
The Ceilometer compute agent provides an inspector framework that allows hypervisors to integrate support for gathering instance statistics and utilization details into Ceilometer. This project provides a standard Ceilometer virt inspector that pulls its data from the PowerVM Performance and Capacity Monitoring (PCM) infrastructure.
This inspector retrieves instance monitoring data for cpu, network, memory, and disk usage. Interactions with PowerVM PCM occur using the PowerVM REST API stack through pypowervm, an open source python project.
This inspector requires that the PowerVM system be configured for management via NovaLink.
End User Impact
The users of the cloud are able to see the metrics for their virtual machines. As PowerVM deals with 'disk buses' rather than specific disks, the hard disk data is reported at a 'per bus' level (i.e. each SCSI or Virtual Fibre Channel bus).
Performance/Scalability Impacts
None.
Other deployer impact
The cloud administrator needs to install the ceilometer-powervm project on their PowerVM compute node. It must be installed on the NovaLink virtual machine on the PowerVM system.
The cloud administrator needs to configure their 'hypervisor_inspector' as powervm.
No other configuration is required.
Developer impact
None
Implementation
Assignee(s)
Primary assignee: thorst
Ongoing maintainer: thorst
Future lifecycle
Ongoing maintenance of the PowerVM compute inspector will be handled by the IBM OpenStack team.
Dependencies
References
- Ceilometer Architecture: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/architecture.html
- pypowervm: https://github.com/powervm/pypowervm
- NovaLink: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS215-262&appname=USN
- PowerVM REST API Initial Specification (may require a newer version as they become available): http://ibm.co/1lThV9R
- PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247940.html?Open
- PowerVM Best Practices: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248062.html?Open