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.. image:: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/badges/ceilometer-powervm.svg
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:target: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/tags/index.html
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Support for PowerVM Performance Monitoring
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The IBM PowerVM hypervisor provides virtualization on POWER hardware.
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PowerVM customers can see benefits in their environments by making use
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of OpenStack. This project implements a Ceilometer-compatible compute
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inspector. This inspector, along with the PowerVM Nova driver and Neutron
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agent, provides capability for PowerVM customers to natively monitor
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utilization and statistics for instances running on OpenStack-managed systems.
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Problem Description
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PowerVM supports a variety of performance monitoring interfaces within
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the platform, providing virtual machine and system monitoring data.
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Ceilometer-powervm implements a Ceilometer-based compute inspector for the
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PowerVM hypervisor.
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Inspector Description
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The Ceilometer compute agent provides an inspector framework that allows
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hypervisors to integrate support for gathering instance statistics and
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utilization details into Ceilometer. This project provides a standard
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Ceilometer virt inspector that pulls its data from the PowerVM Performance and
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Capacity Monitoring (PCM) infrastructure.
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This inspector retrieves instance monitoring data for cpu, network, memory, and
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disk usage. Interactions with PowerVM PCM occur using the PowerVM REST API
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stack through `pypowervm`_, an open source python project.
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This inspector requires that the PowerVM system be configured for management
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via `NovaLink`_.
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.. _pypowervm: https://github.com/powervm/pypowervm
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.. _NovaLink: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS215-262&appname=USN
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End User Impact
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The users of the cloud are able to see the metrics for their virtual machines.
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As PowerVM deals with 'disk buses' rather than specific disks, the hard disk
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data is reported at a 'per bus' level (i.e. each SCSI or Virtual Fibre Channel
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bus).
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Performance/Scalability Impacts
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None.
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Other deployer impact
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The cloud administrator needs to install the ceilometer-powervm project on
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their PowerVM compute node. It must be installed on the `NovaLink`_ virtual
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machine on the PowerVM system.
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The cloud administrator needs to configure their 'hypervisor_inspector' as
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powervm.
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No other configuration is required.
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Developer impact
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None
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Implementation
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Assignee(s)
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Primary assignee: thorst
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Ongoing maintainer: thorst
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Future lifecycle
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Ongoing maintenance of the PowerVM compute inspector will be handled by the IBM
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OpenStack team.
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Dependencies
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- The Ceilometer compute agent.
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- The `pypowervm`_ library.
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- A `NovaLink`_ enabled PowerVM system.
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References
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- Ceilometer Architecture:
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http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/architecture.html
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- pypowervm: https://github.com/powervm/pypowervm
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- NovaLink: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS215-262&appname=USN
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- PowerVM REST API Initial Specification (may require a newer version
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as they become available): http://ibm.co/1lThV9R
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- PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration:
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http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247940.html?Open
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- PowerVM Best Practices:
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http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248062.html?Open
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