Hi All, new to CloudStack and have many questions. I am looking to implement a private cloud for our engineering and qa teams to play around and be able to launch test clusters prior to doing so in the cloud (AWS). I started messing around with the CloudStack installation (3.0.2) and setting up XCP 1.5 and 1.6 hosts and was a bit confused by the networking setup (this is all internal, the VMs won't have a public interface). I am now in the process of starting over. This time with the incubating release (4.0.0) and was hoping to use Ubuntu 12.04 + xapi (aka Kronos) as it provides better support for my network hardware (BCM quad 1Gbe) -- I had to jump through hoops to get XCP 1.5 to work and 1.6 did not work with CS 3.0.2.
Has anyone had any success with 12.04 + xapi for the nodes? The script to add nodes seems to know about Kronos. If this won't work is there a preferred Xen host with somewhat up to date drivers (for a Dell R620 with BCM 5720 Quad)? Regarding the network setup, what is the recommended setup with 4 1Gbe ports? I already have a separate storage network (NFS server has a 10Gbe link) so I was thinking of bonding 2 ports for storage and 2 for management/VM traffic. Does this make sense to bond the second pair? Do I need separate subnets for management and vm network or are different ranges within the same subnet enough (security is not a concern in my deployment). Currently, corporate IS is providing me a subnet with DHCP. Is that going to be a problem for CS? I do have the option of adding another dual or quad port card. If I do, what would the recommended setup be? The nodes have 2x8core CPU with 64GB RAM. I definitely appreciate any pointers to help me off the ground. thank you, Carlos
