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["Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick-

We've enhanced `nova-manage' to manipulate the `extra_specs' entries, c.f. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/update-flavor-key-value,   You can add an `extra_specs' key/value pair to a flavor with the command:

                nova-manage instance_type add_key m1.humongous cpu_type itanium

And delete a key/value pair with the command:

                nova-manage instance_type del_key m1.humongous cpu_type

We're in the process of enhancing `python-novaclient' and Horizon with similar capabilities and hope to have them ready for the Folsom release.

Currently, there's no hook to set `extra_specs' through the `nova.conf' file, the mechanism is to dynamically add the `extra_specs' key/values after the administrator has created a flavor.

Currently, the keys are completely free form but there are some issues with that so that should change.  Checkout the bug:

                https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1039386

Based upon that bug we need to put some sort of scope on the keys to indicate which components a key applies to. I'm in favor of adding a new column to the `extra_specs' table that would explicitly set the scope but an alternative would be to encode the scope into the key itself, something like `TrustedFilter:trust' to indicate that  the `trust' key only applies to the `TrustedFilter' scheduler component.  Feel free to chime in on the BZ entry on how to specify the scope, once we decide on how to deal with this I'll create a patch to handle it.

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Don Dugger
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From: openstack-bounces+donald.d.dugger=intel.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:openstack-bounces+donald.d.dugger=intel.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick Petit
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 7:13 AM
To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] Instance Type Extra Specs clarifications

Hi,

Could someone give a practical overview of how configuring and using the instance type extra specs extension capability introduced in Folsom?

If how extending an instance type is relatively clear.

Eg.: #nova-manage instance_type set_key --name=<my.instancetype> --key <cpu_arch> --value <'s== x86_64'>

The principles of capability advertising is less clearer. Is it assumed that the key/value pairs are always declared statically as flags in nova.conf of the compute node, or can they be generated dynamically and if so, who would that be? And also, are the keys completely free form strings or strings that are known (reserved) by Nova?

Thanks in advance for clarifying this.

Patrick