[Pacemaker] resources not rebalancing

[Patrick Hemmer]

*From: *Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net>
*Sent: * 2014-06-04 04:15:48 E
*To: *The Pacemaker cluster resource manager <pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org>
*Subject: *Re: [Pacemaker] resources not rebalancing

> On 4 Jun 2014, at 4:22 pm, Patrick Hemmer <pacemaker at feystorm.net> wrote:
>
>> Testing some different scenarios, and after bringing a node back online, none of the resources move to it unless they are restarted. However default-resource-stickiness is set to 0, so they should be able to move around freely.
>>
>> # pcs status
>> Cluster name: docker
>> Last updated: Wed Jun  4 06:09:26 2014
>> Last change: Wed Jun  4 06:08:40 2014 via cibadmin on i-093f1f55
>> Stack: corosync
>> Current DC: i-083f1f54 (3) - partition with quorum
>> Version: 1.1.11-1.fc20-9d39a6b
>> 3 Nodes configured
>> 8 Resources configured
>>
>>
>> Online: [ i-053f1f59 i-083f1f54 i-093f1f55 ]
>>
>> Full list of resources:
>>
>>  dummy2    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-083f1f54 
>>  Clone Set: dummy1-clone [dummy1] (unique)
>>      dummy1:0    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-083f1f54 
>>      dummy1:1    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-093f1f55 
>>      dummy1:2    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-093f1f55 
>>      dummy1:3    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-083f1f54 
>>      dummy1:4    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-093f1f55 
>>
>> # pcs resource show --all 
>>  Resource: dummy2 (class=ocf provider=pacemaker type=Dummy)
>>  Clone: dummy1-clone
>>   Meta Attrs: clone-max=5 clone-node-max=5 globally-unique=true 
>>   Resource: dummy1 (class=ocf provider=pacemaker type=Dummy)
>>
>> # pcs property show --all | grep default-resource-stickiness
>>  default-resource-stickiness: 0
>>
>> Notice how i-053f1f59 isn't running anything. I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but it escapes me.
> clones are ever so slightly sticky by default, try setting resource-stickiness=0 for the clone resource
> (and unset it once everything has moved back)
>

Thanks, that did indeed fix it. But how come dummy2 didn't move? It's
not a clone, but it didn't move either?

And now a separate follow up question, the resources didn't balance as
they should. I've got several utilization attributes set, and the
resources aren't balanced according to the placement-strategy.

# pcs property show placement-strategy
Cluster Properties:
 placement-strategy: balanced

# crm_simulate -URL

Current cluster status:
Online: [ i-053f1f59 i-083f1f54 i-093f1f55 ]

 dummy2    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-053f1f59
 Clone Set: dummy1-clone [dummy1] (unique)
     dummy1:0    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-053f1f59
     dummy1:1    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-093f1f55
     dummy1:2    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-083f1f54
     dummy1:3    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-083f1f54
     dummy1:4    (ocf::pacemaker:Dummy):    Started i-093f1f55

Utilization information:
Original: i-053f1f59 capacity: cpu=5000000 mem=3840332000
Original: i-083f1f54 capacity: cpu=5000000 mem=3840332000
Original: i-093f1f55 capacity: cpu=5000000 mem=3840332000
calculate_utilization: dummy2 utilization on i-053f1f59: cpu=10000
calculate_utilization: dummy1:2 utilization on i-083f1f54: cpu=1000
calculate_utilization: dummy1:1 utilization on i-093f1f55: cpu=1000
calculate_utilization: dummy1:0 utilization on i-053f1f59: cpu=1000
calculate_utilization: dummy1:3 utilization on i-083f1f54: cpu=1000
calculate_utilization: dummy1:4 utilization on i-093f1f55: cpu=1000
Remaining: i-053f1f59 capacity: cpu=4989000 mem=3840332000
Remaining: i-083f1f54 capacity: cpu=4998000 mem=3840332000
Remaining: i-093f1f55 capacity: cpu=4998000 mem=3840332000



The "balanced" strategy is defined as: "the node that has more free
capacity gets consumed first".
Notice that dummy2 consumes cpu=10000, while dummy1 is only 1000 (10x
less). After dummy2 was placed on i-053f1f59, that should have consumed
enough "cpu" resource to keep dummy1 off it and on the other 2 nodes,
but dummy1:0 got placed on the node.

Also how difficult is it to add a strategy? I'd be interested in having
a strategy which places a resource on a node with the least amount of
capacity used? Kind of the inverse of "balanced". The docs say balanced
looks at much capacity is free. The 2 strategies would be equivalent if
all nodes have the same capacity, but if one node has 10x the capacity
of the other nodes, I want the resources to be distributed evenly (based
on the capacity each uses), and not over-utilize that one node.

Thanks

-Patrick

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