For OpenStack
More VMs per host. No noisy neighbours.
Aicerine sizes every hypervisor to its real load and moves the right VMs before anyone feels the contention. Nova stays exactly as it is.
Illustration. Before: host cmp-a07 is over its threshold. After: two neighbouring VMs have moved to cmp-a03 and cmp-b11, the large VM stayed on cmp-a07, and every host is under the threshold.
This page presents the target product. What is available today is set out in the documentation shared with pilot partners.
Product
It sees. It prevents. It fixes.
Contention isn't a guess, it's a measurement. Aicerine tracks it VM by VM and acts before your users notice.
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Every VM, measured
Real contention, VM by VM, host by host, over time. Not an average.
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Hot hosts close their doors
A host running hot stops taking new VMs, and takes them again once it cools down.
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The neighbours move
Not the large VM. The cheapest plan, inside your maintenance windows.
Control
You set the pace.
From advice to autonomy, when you are ready.
Observe
It shows what it would do. Nothing moves.
Assisted
It proposes a plan. You apply it in one click.
Active
It acts on its own, inside the limits you set.
One emergency stop freezes everything, at any time.
Nothing moves until it has been replayed.
Every plan runs through the simulator before it is applied. Same state, same plan. Every migration comes with the arithmetic behind it, and you can redo it by hand.
Principles
What doesn't move.
Constraints on the product, not slogans.
Yours, even air-gapped
An on-premise, self-contained appliance. Nothing leaves your infrastructure by default.
AI explains. It doesn't decide.
Decisions are computed, not generated. The LLM is off by default; switched on, it can run on the appliance itself.
Every decision leaves a trace
Roles, approvals and an audit log: you know who did what, and why.
If Aicerine stops, OpenStack carries on
Nothing of ours runs inside Nova. Your VMs, your hosts and your scheduler never depend on us.
OpenStack
Nothing to change in OpenStack.
No patch, no fork, no plugin in Nova. Aicerine works through the APIs you already use.
- The live migration you already run, on your shared storage.
- One agent on the hypervisors: read-only, outbound connections only.
- Nova and Placement remain the source of truth.
Where live migration is ruled out, our open-source Nova weigher takes over at placement time.
Pilot program
See first. Decide later.
A pilot runs on your own fleet, starts in observation, and is judged on measurements agreed beforehand.
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Connect
The appliance on your side, the agent on the hypervisors. Nothing moves.
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Compare
Its plans against what you do today, on criteria we define together.
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Decide
Act only if the measurements justify it. No figure promised up front.
What pilot partners get
The installation documentation, direct contact with the team, and a say in what comes next.
A good fit
Teams running OpenStack with live migration in place and a sizeable fleet: private clouds, hosting providers, in-house infrastructure.