nova/releasenotes/notes/libvirt-change-default-value-of-live-migration-tunnelled-4248cf76df605fdf.yaml
Pawel Koniszewski 61f122637b Change default value of live_migration_tunnelled to False
Given the impact of libvirt tunnelling mechanism this patch changes
default value of live_migration_tunnelled to False. There are few
reasons to do that:
* Internal libvirt mechanisms increases number of memory copies and
  it is just a single-threaded encryption mechanism. Because of that
  transfer between source and destination is around 2Gb/s on a 10Gb
  network. Given how fast memory is it effectively prevents live
  migrations from finishing without entering post-copy mode. Most
  operators are turning tunnelling off to increase convergence without
  using such hammers like post-copy or pausing an instance during
  live migration.
* It also has some limitations, e.g., selective disk migration does
  not work when tunnelling is enabled, which means that by default it
  is not possible to block live migrate image-backed VMs with additional
  volumes atteched
* Default value of live_migration_tunnelled - None - supposed to
  choose the best option for encrypting live migration basing on
  e.g., availability of native encryption in hypervisor. However,
  this will only solve problems with LM limitations when libvirt
  tunnelling is in use. Poor performance will still be an issue.

Change-Id: I0323e8bb2ded938522c15b220b84ddfc606e1c97
2016-08-16 08:19:27 +00:00

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---
upgrade:
- Default value of live_migration_tunnelled config option in
libvirt section has been changed to False. After upgrading
nova to Newton all live migrations will be non-tunnelled
unless live_migration_tunnelled is explicitly set to True.
It means that, by default, the migration traffic will not
go through libvirt and therefore will no longer be encrypted.