I was doing some testing with the explicit and implicit dedication features, and was just wondering about the logic behind it.
>From a service provider perspective this feature seems most useful for dedicating certain resources to a domain or account. In other words, a client pays for a single host/cluster of hosts, and all their instances are isolated on those hosts. Right now if a host/cluster is explicitly dedicated system VMs will ignore that dedication and deploy on the dedicated hosts anyway. This isn't ideal because the system VMs consume resources dedicated (and being paid for) by a single client. That being said the system VMs have to get deployed somewhere, so this is probably the best solution overall. To get around this issue a host can be implicitly dedicated. In this case only VMs specifically deployed by the dedicated user will be provisioned on their resources. This prevents unwanted resource consumption on the dedicated infrastructure. However, this causes the opposite problem with virtual routers. The dedicated client's virtual router is deployed on shared resources, instead of their dedicated infrastructure. This isn't ideal, because a customer paying for dedicated resources can be negatively impacted by an issue with the shared hosts (e.g., host running their VR goes down causing network outages). Would it be hard to change the implicit dedication logic to allow the virtual router owned by an account to reside on their implicitly dedicated resources, or even to prefer those resources? This would ensure that a client paying for dedicated resources would only be affected by outages on their own hardware. If a console proxy or secondary storage VM goes down they would still be affected, but that's a much less urgent/immediately visible problem than losing a virtual router. I know the implicit dedication manager views virtual routers as being owned by the "system" right now, but since they are tied to a specific account I don't think this change would be too hard to implement. Is my logic sound on this, or is there something I'm not considering? Thank You, Logan Barfield Tranquil Hosting
