Chapter 6. Creating an instance with a guaranteed minimum bandwidth QoS
You can create instances that request a guaranteed minimum bandwidth by using a Quality of Service (QoS) policy.
QoS policies with a guaranteed minimum bandwidth rule are assigned to ports on a specific physical network. When you create an instance that uses the configured port, the Compute scheduling service selects a host for the instance that satisfies this request. The Compute scheduling service checks the Placement service for the amount of bandwidth reserved by other instances on each physical interface, before selecting a host to deploy an instance on.
Limitations/Restrictions
- You can only assign a guaranteed minimum bandwidth QoS policy when creating a new instance. You cannot assign a guaranteed minimum bandwidth QoS policy to instances that are already running, as the Compute service only updates resource usage for an instance in placement during creation or move operations, which means the minimum bandwidth available to the instance cannot be guaranteed.
You cannot live migrate, unshelve or evacuate an instance that uses a port that has resource requests, such as a guaranteed minimum bandwidth QoS policy. Run the following command to check if a port has resource requests:
$ openstack port show <port_name/port_id>
Prerequisites
- A QoS policy is available that has a minimum bandwidth rule. For more information, see Configuring Quality of Service (QoS) policies in the Networking Guide.
Procedure
List the available QoS policies:
(overcloud)$ openstack network qos policy list
----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ID | Name | Shared | Default | Project |----------------------------------------------------------------+ | 6d771447-3cf4-4ef1-b613-945e990fa59f | policy2 | True | False | ba4de51bf7694228a350dd22b7a3dc24 | | 78a24462-e3c1-4e66-a042-71131a7daed5 | policy1 | True | False | ba4de51bf7694228a350dd22b7a3dc24 | | b80acc64-4fc2-41f2-a346-520d7cfe0e2b | policy0 | True | False | ba4de51bf7694228a350dd22b7a3dc24 |----------------------------------------------------------------+Check the rules of each of the available policies to determine which has the required minimum bandwidth:
(overcloud)$ openstack network qos policy show policy0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | description | | | id | b80acc64-4fc2-41f2-a346-520d7cfe0e2b | | is_default | False | | location | cloud=', project.domain_id=, project.domain_name='Default, project.id=ba4de51bf7694228a350dd22b7a3dc24, project.name=admin, region_name=regionOne, zone= | | name | policy0 | | project_id | ba4de51bf7694228a350dd22b7a3dc24 | | rules | [{min_kbps: 100000, direction: egress, id: d46218fe-9218-4e96-952b-9f45a5cb3b3c, qos_policy_id: b80acc64-4fc2-41f2-a346-520d7cfe0e2b, type: minimum_bandwidth}, {min_kbps: 100000, direction: ingress, id: 1202c4e3-a03a-464c-80d5-0bf90bb74c9d, qos_policy_id: b80acc64-4fc2-41f2-a346-520d7cfe0e2b, type: minimum_bandwidth}] | | shared | True | | tags | [] |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+Create a port from the appropriate policy:
(overcloud)$ openstack port create port-normal-qos --network net0 --qos-policy policy0
Create an instance, specifying the NIC port to use:
$ openstack server create --flavor cirros256 --image cirros-0.3.5-x86_64-disk --nic port-id=port-normal-qos --wait qos_instance
An "ACTIVE" status in the output indicates that you have successfully created the instance on a host that can provide the requested guaranteed minimum bandwidth.
6.1. Removing a guaranteed minimum bandwidth QoS from an instance
If you want to lift the guaranteed minimum bandwidth QoS policy restriction from an instance, you can detach the interface.
Procedure
To detach the interface, enter the following command:
$ openstack server remove port <vm_name|vm_id> <port_name|port_id>
