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diff --git a/docs/design/Section_2_Gap_analysis_in_upstream_projects.rst b/docs/design/Section_2_Gap_analysis_in_upstream_projects.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e871e32 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/design/Section_2_Gap_analysis_in_upstream_projects.rst @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +=================================== +2 Gap analysis in upstream projects +=================================== + +This section presents the findings of gaps on existing VIM platforms. +The focus was to identify gaps based on the features and requirements specified in Section 3.3. +The analysis work performed resulted in the identification of gaps of which are herein presented. + +2.1 Monasca +=========== + +Monasca is an open-source monitoring-as-a-service (MONaaS) solution that integrates with OpenStack. +Even though it is still in its early days, it is the interest of the community that the platform be multi-tenant, +highly scalable, performant and fault-tolerant. Companion with a streaming alarm engine and a notification engine, +is a northbound REST API users can use to interact with Monasca. Hundreds of thousands of metrics per second can be processed [8]. + +2.1.1 Memory usage in HyperV +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +* Type: 'missing' +* Description: + + + To-be + + - Monasca should collect memory usage in HyperV. + + + As-is: + + - Monasca does not support querying memory usage of HyperV. + + + Gap + + - Monasca does not support querying memory usage of HyperV. + +2.1.2 Memory usage in Libvirt +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +* Type: 'missing' +* Description: + + + To-be + + - Monasca should collect memory usage in Libvirt. + + + As-is: + + - Monasca does not support querying memory usage of Libvirt. + + + Gap + + - Monasca does not support querying memory usage of Libvirt. + +2.2 Heat +========== + +Heat is an orchestration project of openstack. It can be used for deploy application. +Its cfn-hup tool can monitor metadata in VM and notify to heat. But this function is poor now, +we can extend cfn-hup to collect more information inside VM and make failure prediction. + +2.2.1 Cfn-hup +^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +* Type: 'monitoring issue' +* Description: + + + To-be + + - Cfn-hup is able to collect more metrics than metadata inside VM. These metrics can be used for failure prediction. + + + As-is: + + - Cfn-hup just can monitor metadata inside VM. + + + Gap + + - Cfn-hup should monitor more information inside VM. + +2.3 VM Introspection +===================== + +Virtual machine introspection (VMI) is a mechanism that allows indirect inspection and manipulation of the state of virtual machines. +It resulted in a variety of VMI-based applications dealing with security, performance, and debugging in virtual machine environments. +Of course, it can be used to collect detail metrics in VM and used for failure prediction. + +LibVMI is an open source implementation of VMI supporting commodity hypervisors such as Xen and KVM. +LibVMI provides the functionality of mapping raw memory pages of VMs inside the privileged VM and relies on +monitoring software to interpret the contents of these mapped pages. For more information, please visit website: http://libvmi.com/ + +2.3.1 VM Introspection +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +* Type: 'monitoring issue' +* Description: + + + To-be + + - VMI can be used to collect detail information inside VM for failure prediction. + + + As-is: + + - VMI can collect some information for security analysis. + + + Gap + + - Openstack is lack of a module used to collect detail information of VM based on VMI technology. |