On Feb 10, 2013, at 8:43 AM, Carlos Reategui <car...@reategui.com> wrote:
> 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. > Hi Carlos, I would use the 4.0.1 release. For Ubuntu, Gerry Havinga just posted a script that helps with the installation, you might want to check it out: http://opensourcetutorials.blogspot.nl/2013/02/adding-ubuntu-1204-kvm-host-to.html As far as networking, the first decision will be to decide whether you are going to use VLANs or not. If you don't use VLANs, you will setup a "basic" zone, if you can do VLANs you might want to setup an "advanced" zone. Shapeblue has some blogs that are very useful in addition to reading the documentation: http://www.shapeblue.com/2013/01/07/understanding-cloudstacks-physical-networking-architecture/ http://www.shapeblue.com/2012/05/01/cloudstack-networking-considerations/ and: http://www.shapeblue.com/2012/05/10/using-the-api-for-advanced-network-management/ -Sebastien > 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
