openstack/telemetry-specs
Code Issues Proposed changes
master
telemetry-specs/specs/liberty/powervm-compute-inspector.rst
Drew Thorstensen a9d3730f52 PowerVM Compute Inspector 
This spec outlines development of a compute inspector for the PowerVM
hypervisor.

Change-Id: I32e73d8dcb53b0fc9ad994439c0672f8a65e534a
2015-06-19 08:36:46 -04:00

5.9 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

PowerVM Compute Inspector

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/powervm-inspector

PowerVM is a hypervisor for the POWER processor architecture. Community drivers to support PowerVM in an OpenStack environment for Nova and Neutron (ML2 agent) are in active development. Telemetry is a key component for operators within an OpenStack environment. This blueprint proposes that an inspector for PowerVM be included in Ceilometer.

Problem description

OpenStack drivers delivering support for the PowerVM hypervisor are being developed for Nova and Neutron (an ML2 agent). Operators require more support than Nova and Neutron integration - they need telemetry information. PowerVM provides a variety of performance monitoring interfaces for both virtual machine and system monitoring metrics.

This proposal is for the PowerVM Driver Team to add a PowerVM compute inspector to the Ceilometer project. This will allow operators receive and store Telemetry data for PowerVM in the same fashion as other hypervisors.

Proposed change

We propose that a new python package be created: ceilometer/compute/virt/powervm.

This package will contain a compute inspector (similar to those for hyperv, libvirt, vmware, and xen) that gathers the statistics.

The collection of these statistics will be driven through the pypowervm API. This is an open source project that allows python programs to interact with the PowerVM hypervisor.

The module within pypowervm that will be used is the LPAR (logical partition, equivalent to a virtual machine) statistics package. This will provide the interfaces used to collect the statistics.

The metrics reported for a given instance that will be included are:

  • CPU Statistics
  • CPU Utilization
  • vNIC Statistics
  • vNIC Utilization
  • Disk Statistics
  • Disk Rates
  • Disk IOPs

Metrics that will not be included are:

  • Disk Latency
  • Disk Info

Alternatives

An alternative would be to keep the inspector in a separate StackForge project. This was not seen as viable due to how the inspectors are derived. Ceilometer depends on the inspectors residing in the main ceilometer.compute.virt project.

This approach could be supported if the get_hypervisor_inspector method was extended to support external projects.

Data model impact

None.

REST API impact

None.

Security impact

None.

Pipeline impact

None.

Other end user impact

The inspector should be running on the PowerVM host system in order to collect the information. This is in line with the Nova compute driver and the Neutron ML2 agent.

Performance/Scalability Impacts

None.

Other deployer impact

The hypervisor_inspector will have a new option available called 'powervm'. No database impacts would occur as the standard statistics would be supported.

There will be a Chef blueprint that is being developed and worked with that team to support the deployment of the PowerVM drivers/agents. The changes there would support the use of the Ceilometer inspector for PowerVM.

Developer impact

None. Unit tests would be developed for the new inspector but are contained within the given package.

Implementation

Assignee(s)

Primary assignee:

thorst

Other contributors:

adreznec, efried

Ongoing maintainer:

thorst, efried

Work Items

  • Deliver the package structure for the powervm inspector.
  • Develop the CPU Statistics method and unit tests.
  • Develop the CPU Utilization method and unit tests.
  • Develop the vNIC Statistics method and unit tests.
  • Develop the vNIC Utilization method and unit tests.
  • Develop the Disk Statistics method and unit tests.
  • Develop the Disk Rates method and unit tests.
  • Develop the Disk IOPs method and unit tests.

Future lifecycle

The PowerVM Drivers team that resides within IBM will continue maintenance and support of the inspector for future releases. The PowerVM Drivers team is outlined here: https://launchpad.net/~powervm-drivers

The maintenance and support that will be provided is, at a minimum:

  • Changes in the PowerVM inspector due to base library changes
  • Ongoing testing and validation of the PowerVM inspector
  • Bug fixes identified within the PowerVM inspector

Dependencies

Testing

The existing tempest tests will be run against the PowerVM inspector. The tempest tests are hypervisor-agnostic, allowing the existing tempest tests to be run against the PowerVM polling code without changes.

The PowerVM Drivers team will directly run the tempest tests against a PowerVM system (using the Nova PowerVM Driver and Neutron PowerVM ML2 Agent).

Documentation Impact

The configuration reference should include an update for the PowerVM inspector: http://docs.openstack.org/kilo/config-reference/content/ch_configuring-openstack-telemetry.html

References

Python library for PowerVM:

Corresponding OpenStack Projects:

Note: These are StackForge projects while we iterate with the core teams to bring them into the core. Neutron will stay a StackForge project given the decomposition goals of Neutron itself.

PowerVM as a Hypervisor: