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Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules Explained

Affinity and anti-affinity rules create relationships between virtual machines (VMs) and hosts by either keeping them together (affinity) or separated (anti-affinity) during deployment. These rules help streamline deployment and allow VMs that need constant communication to be grouped on the same host, while VMs overloading networks can be separated onto different hosts. The rules balance load across VMs and hosts without impacting recovery or scale operations.

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Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules Explained

Affinity and anti-affinity rules create relationships between virtual machines (VMs) and hosts by either keeping them together (affinity) or separated (anti-affinity) during deployment. These rules help streamline deployment and allow VMs that need constant communication to be grouped on the same host, while VMs overloading networks can be separated onto different hosts. The rules balance load across VMs and hosts without impacting recovery or scale operations.

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Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules


Affinity and anti-affinity rules create relationship between virtual machines (VMs) and hosts. The rule can
be applied to VMs, or a VM and a host. The rule either keeps the VMs and hosts together (affinity) or separated
(anti-affinity).
Policies are applied during individual VM deployment. You can deploy a single VNF or multiple VNFs
together through ESC portal by uploading an existing deployment datamodel or by creating a new deployment
datamodel. For more information, see ESC Portal Dashboard.
Affinity and anti-affinity policy streamlines the deployment process.
Affinity and anti-affinity rules are created and applied on VMs at the time of deployment. VM receives the
placement policies when the deploy workflow is initialized.
During a composite VNF deployment, if a couple of VMs need to communicate with each other constantly,
they can be grouped together (affinity rule) and placed on the same host.
If two VMs are over-loading a network, they can be separated (anti-affinity rule) and placed on different hosts
to balance the network.
Grouping or separating VMs and hosts at the time of deployment helps ESC to manage load across the VMs
and hosts in the network. Recovery and scale out of these VMs do not impact the affinity and anti-affinity
rules.
The anti-affinity rule can also be applied between VMs within the same group and on a different host. These
VMs perform similar functions and support each other. When one host is down, the VM on the other host
continues to run preventing any loss of service.
The table shows the types of affinity and anti-affinity policies in a deployment.

Table 1: Intra and Inter group affinity and anti-affinity policies

Policy Policy VM group Host Zone

affinity Intra group affinity same VM group same host same zone

Inter group affinity different VM group same host same zone

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Policy Policy VM group Host Zone

anti-affinity Intra group same VM group different host same zone


anti-affinity

Inter group different VM group different host same zone


anti-affinity

Note If the zone is not specified on OpenStack, VMs will be placed on different hosts and different zones for inter
and intra group anti-affinity rules.

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