Authors:

Adam Litke

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SLA-mom-ballooning-tp

MOM Ballooning (Tech Preview)

Summary

Introduce automatic memory ballooning as a selectable host or cluster-level policy in order to achieve higher VM density by overcommiting host memory.

Owner

Name: Adam Litke (Aglitke)
Email: Adam Litke alitke@redhat.com

Current status

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Last updated date: 23 October 2012

Detailed Description

This feature covers changes to ovirt-engine, vdsm, and mom to enable a memory ballooning MOM policy at the host or cluster level. For users desiring a high level of VM density even with a risk of degraded performance, an aggressive management policy including memory ballooning is needed. Implementation of this feature can be broken down into the following sub-tasks

MOM: Multiple policies support
MOM: Per-VM attributes
MOM: auto-balloon policy
vdsm: API for setting/getting/clearing MOM policies
engine: host policy management
engine: Policy selection UI

Benefit to oVirt

oVirt will gain the ability to achieve higher VM densities and more efficient use of host memory resources. This feature also serves as the foundation for a more sophisticated SLA framework that will be developed over time.