Re: [Xen-users] XCP bandwidth management

[Scott Damron <sdamron@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry - Meant to include the link - http://openvswitch.org/?page_id=267

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Scott Damron <sdamron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would start by looking at configuring QOS on the Open VSwitch.  That
> might get you where you want to be.
>
> Scott
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:38 AM, msgbox450@xxxxxxxxx
> <msgbox450@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I've got XCP 1.0 up and running nicely and would like to use it in
>> production. However I'm struggling with the concept of bandwidth management.
>> It seems like such a common problem that everyone must have, but I can't
>> find any clear direction in which to go.
>> The dedicated host I am using (Hetzner) gives me a 5TB monthly bandwidth
>> quota which needs to be shared between all the VMs on the XCP.
>> Ideally I would like something to automatically manage the bandwidth such
>> that each VM is capable of using the full 100mbps speed of the connection,
>> but will be throttled back if the throughput is sustained, so we have e.g.
>> 24 x 1GB VMs on the host with average of 213GB/month bandwidth usage each.
>> Alternatively it might be easier to just route all the virtual interfaces
>> though a VM than runs pfsense or use tc on the host to just set some sort of
>> shaping on the physical interface itself, but I really don't know the best
>> way to go about it.
>>
>> Things I've found so far aren't so good:
>> 1 - Limit the interface using the XenCenter GUI... but that means the VM
>> would never be able to go above about 1mbps, even if it's sat there and used
>> no bandwidth for the past week and is well within its quota, so that's not
>> ideal.
>> 2 - Use sFlow in XCP to capture the data. Well this works for looking at how
>> much bandwidth they are using, but I haven't found any existing tool that
>> will act on that data to do traffic shaping.
>> 3 - Use the XAPI calls to check the bandwidth usage.
>>
>> With methods 2 and 3 I guess I could write something that collects the data
>> and stores it a database table, somehow work out how much the connection
>> needs to be slowed by and then apply it using the XAPI, but that seems
>> rather hacky and difficult and there must be a better way?
>>
>> If anyone could give some tips on how to do this I'd really appreciate it.
>> Basically I just want the quickest and easiest way to make it so that the
>> server as a whole doesn't go over its bandwidth limit without limiting all
>> the guests to a tiny speed individually.
>> Thanks!
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