[Ci-users] AltArch support in CI (status update)
Fabian Arrotin
arrfab at centos.org
Wed Jul 26 13:04:40 UTC 2017
On 25/07/17 17:45, Brian Stinson wrote:
> On Jul 14 16:25, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
<snip>
>
>
> A couple of us spoke about this the other day and decided that we would
> take the following approach to sizing VMs on altarch hardware:
>
> Our Openstack instance, CICO Cloud, has the following VM sizes
> available:
>
> Name | RAM | Disk | Ephemeral | VCPUs |
> --------+------+------+-----------+-------+
> tiny | 1940 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
> small | 3875 | 20 | 0 | 2 |
> medium | 7750 | 40 | 0 | 4 |
> --------+------+------+-----------+-------+
>
> We will duplicate the same sizes for Libvirt VMs on altarch hardware,
> but in order to take advantage of the incredible memory density on
> these machines, we'll be adding a few flavors for libvirt nodes -only-:
>
> Name | RAM | Disk | Ephemeral | VCPUs |
> --------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+
> lram.tiny | 11444 | 10 | 0 | 4 |
> lram.small | 15258 | 20 | 0 | 8 |
> xram.tiny | 22888 | 10 | 0 | 4 |
> xram.small | 38750 | 20 | 0 | 8 |
> xram.medium | 77500 | 40 | 0 | 16 |
> --------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+
>
> The aarch64 kit will allow: tiny,small,medium,lram.tiny,lram.small
> The ppc64le kit will allow: all that you see above
>
> What I'd like from you all is comments about the {l,x}ram sizing. We
> have enough capacity to host quite a few of these VMs. Since this is
> easy to change and we haven't opened this up to users yet, I'll continue
> working on the provisioning side with this scheme in mind.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Brian
>
Well, I don't see why we should go "insane" with the xram.* flavors.
Actually in CI we only serve bare-metal nodes (as while it was mentioned
multiple times that there is CI cloud, CI users aren't able -yet- to
consume those instances, but that's another story) and forr bare-metal,
depending on which nodes/chassis they get back, it's either 16Gb or
32Gb. so my point is that we shouldn't go higher than that, at least for
the beginning.
I don't know when (for example) RDO will be able to test a deployment in
CI, but for sure they'll probably have other needs than vcpus/memory, as
they'll have a need for storage (and bigger than 40Gb ?)
--
Fabian Arrotin
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