vmtypes 3.3 spec

Table of Contents Overview AWS compatibility Standard Instances Micro Instances High-Memory Instances High-CPU Instances Cluster Compute Instances Cluster GPU Instances High I/O Instances Notes

Overview

VM Type support in Eucalyptus has two disjoint aspects:

1. AWS compatibility as determined by published VM type names (but not necessarily characteristics).
2. Private cloud administrator control over vm type definitions.

AWS compatibility

Currently (09/18/12) the vm type definitions used by AWS are:

Micro	t1.micro
Standard	m1.small	m1.medium	m1.large	m1.xlarge
High CPU	c1.medium	c1.xlarge
High Mem	m2.xlarge	m2.2xlarge	m2.4xlarge
Cluster Compute	cc1.4xlarge	cc2.8xlarge
High I/O	hi1.4xlarge
GPU	cg1.4xlarge

Standard Instances

• Small Instance (Default) 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit or 64-bit platform
• Medium Instance 3.75 GB of memory, 2 EC2 Compute Units (1 virtual core with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 410 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit or 64-bit platform
• Large Instance 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform
• Extra Large Instance 15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform

Micro Instances

• Micro Instance 613 MB of memory, up to 2 ECUs (for short periodic bursts), EBS storage only, 32-bit or 64-bit platform

High-Memory Instances

• High-Memory Extra Large Instance 17.1 GB memory, 6.5 ECU (2 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 420 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform
• High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34.2 GB of memory, 13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform
• High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Instance 68.4 GB of memory, 26 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform

High-CPU Instances

• High-CPU Medium Instance 1.7 GB of memory, 5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 350 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit or 64-bit platform
• High-CPU Extra Large Instance 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform

Cluster Compute Instances

• Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large 23 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units, 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large 60.5 GB memory, 88 EC2 Compute Units, 3370 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Cluster GPU Instances

• Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large 22 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units, 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs, 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit Ethernet

High I/O Instances

• High I/O Quadruple Extra Large 60.5 GB memory, 35 EC2 Compute Units, 2* 1024 GB of SSD-based local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Notes

• MVP is a larger number of vm types
  • Having an arbitrary number is not in MVP
  • Create and Delete become optional if the number of VMTypes are fixed
• MVP precludes requiring admin to login via to adjust the VMTypes
• MVP includes an admin API for controlling vm type definitions
  • Create and Delete are optional
  • Don't allow for removal of default AWS types
• Deleting would involve invalidating existing references
• t1.micro doesn't have instance store option
• MVP includes a euca-describe-vmtypes
• Ephemeral disk configurations
• UserConsole changes related to removing config file for vmtypes
  • Use the new UI instead
  • Change the presentation to accommodate the larger number of vmtypes
  • Changing ephemeral configuration changes the
• Admin UI
  • Presentation of existing types
  • Create and delete mutable types
• Authorization and authentication are required in
• Constraints on legitimate values
• Restrict naming to [:alnum:] period

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