Those are interesting figures, but it would also be interesting to know how many of those are kept running. Our 1M host target is irrelevant if all those instances are shut down again a day later. If Amazon are adding *and keeping* 70k VMs a day then that's a very different matter.
Ewan. > -----Original Message----- > From: openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix....@lists.launchpad.net] > On Behalf Of Jay Pipes > Sent: 29 December 2010 16:47 > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Openstack] Some insight into the number of instances Nova > needs to spin up... > > Some insight into the number of instances being spun up *per day* on > AWS, *just in the US-East-1 region*: > > http://www.jackofallclouds.com/2010/12/recounting-ec2/ > > Avg in 2010: 70,528 instances spun up each day > Max: 150,800 instances in a single day > > Food for thought. > > What do we think Nova could/can support? I know we are aiming at > supporting clouds of 1M physical hosts. Perhaps we need to re-assess? > :) > > /me urges more prioritization of the openstack-ci (continuous > integration and performance/stress testing) project in Cactus... > > -jay > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
