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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:24 AM, CK <cloudw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to CS and have been reading the documentation. I have have some > questions on the CS configuration/deployment. > > My setup is basic and as follows: > - 1x Centos Host running the CS management server, MySQL DB and NFS > providing primary/secondary storage > - 1x Xenserver Host to run the guest VMs > > Questions: > 1 - is the above sufficient for a basic env to test/play with CS? > Definitely. > 2 - I understand the guest VMs are created/stored on the primary storage, > but how (ie. directly from CS-Primary or CS->XenServer->Primary) and what > is the actual process how this done ? > cloudstack gets the xenserver to mount both secondary and primary. CS sends a command to XenServer to copy template from secondary to Primary CS clones the template and launches the vm. > 3 - When setting up the Xenserver host, do I need to configure a Storage > repository which happens to be the primary storage? > if your going with NFS this isnt necessary, adding it via the GUI/API as a shared nfs storage should do the trick. > > Is there a blog/wiki available that details how to setup the above? > There is a runbook/quick install being updated at the moment, in the mean time look at the install guide: https://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/docs/en-US/index.html > > Thanks in advance. > > Clark >
