On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:51 AM, Carlos Reategui <car...@reategui.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers. > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > I'll give that a try. > > 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 > > > I notice his script installs cloud-agent and cloud-system-iso, do I need > those as well for xapi on ubuntu? Or are those for KVM only. In looking > at the install docs, I don't see them mentioned in the Xenserver section. Carlos, sorry for the delay. If you use Xen on ubuntu. CS will use xapi. You don't need to install the cloud-agent. The issue of needing cloud-system-iso has been fixed in 4.0.1 but this is only needed for KVM. I will try to add some docs in the coming weeks. > > >> >> 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. >> > > I don't know much about VLANs so I was going to stick with a basic zone. > Especially since I don't have a need for a public network. > > >> 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/ > > > Thanks for these, somehow had not run across them in my google searches. > Although now I am confused about the "storage" network as he explains that > is for secondary storage. In my setup I was going to start with the > management node also being the NFS storage for both primary and secondary. > It has a 2 10Gbe and 2 1Gbe ports. I have the 10Gbe ports going to a > switch (dell 6224) that is physically isolated from the the rest of the > network and was planning on only having NFS traffic on that. Should I also > configure that to be my "management" network? I am not an authority on this. But I believe that you could define a storage network as long as the hosts can access it. If you don't define a storage network the storage traffic will go over the management network. > > Anyhow I have made some progress with 4.0 but got stuck not being able to > add a host, which I am pretty sure has to do with my host network > settings/labels. Also the management server seems to think my "storage" ip > (172.30.19.10) is the management network (there is an alarm saying the > management server node is up on that ip). How do I change that? > Also I see a couple other alarms: "management network CIDR is not > configured originally. set it default to 172.30.45.0/24" and "no usage > server process running". Should I worry about that. > > I have updated to 4.0.1 and will try to figure out my host network as "xe > network-list" does not seem to match what I have actually configured. Give us an update on this, as your email was 10 days ago, you may have made progress. > >> >> >> -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 >> >>
