9–13 Jul 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria
Europe/Sofia timezone

CAOS: a tool for OpenStack accounting management

10 Jul 2018, 16:00
1h
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria

National Culture Palace, Boulevard "Bulgaria", 1463 NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria
Poster Track 7 – Clouds, virtualization and containers Posters

Speakers

Fabrizio Chiarello (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)Dr Sergio Traldi (INFN - Sezione di Padova) Paolo Andreetto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

Description

The analysis and understanding of resources utilization in shared infrastructures, such as cloud environments, is crucial in order to provide better performance, administration and capacity planning.

The management of resource usage of the OpenStack-based cloud infrastructures hosted at INFN-Padova, the Cloud Area Padovana and the INFN-PADOVA-STACK instance of the EGI Federated Cloud, started with the deployment of Ceilometer, the OpenStack component responsible to collect and manage accounting information. However, by using Ceilometer alone we found some limiting problems related to the way it handles information: among others, the imbalance between storage and data retention requirements, and the complexity in computing custom metrics.

In this contribution we present a tool, called CAOS, which we have been implementing to overcome the aforementioned issues. CAOS collects, manages and presents the data concerning resource usage of our OpenStack-based cloud infrastructures. By gathering data from both the Ceilometer service and OpenStack API, CAOS enables us to track resource usage at different levels (e.g. per project), in such a way that both current and past consumption of resources can be easily determined, stored and presented.

Primary author

Fabrizio Chiarello (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

Co-authors

Dr Sergio Traldi (INFN - Sezione di Padova) Paolo Andreetto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

Presentation materials