prediction

I should start out by saying that because OpenStack is an open source project, it is hard to know exactly what will land in Havana -- the developers are volunteers, and sometimes things get in the way of them doing the work they intended. However, these are the notes I wrote up on the high points of the summit for me -- I didn't see all the same sessions as other nova developers, so hopefully others will pitch in with their notes as well. Scheduler The scheduler seems to be a point of planned work for a lot of people in this release, with talk about having more scheduling code in the common library, and of adding new filter types. There is definite interest in being able to schedule by methods we don't currently support -- things like rack or PDU diversity, or trying to collocate a tenants machines together. HP is also interested in being able to sell dedicated machines to tenants -- in other words, they would guarantee that only one tenants instances appeared on a machine in return for a fee. At the moment this requires setting up a host aggregate for the tenant. Feeding additional data…