Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I was traveling and not able to work on this.
I have added the NFS SR to my host. I was also able to create a VM and got decent performance to the NFS based storage (90MB/s). I did all this using xe command line so I believe at the very least Xen and xapi are working on this host with my primary storage. Unfortunately I did not have the same amount of luck with Cloudstack. I first tried using the setup wizard but the primary storage options do not include "PreSetup" option so I went back and did the manual setup of the Zone. Everything seemed to go ok (after I added the .ssh dir in root's home dir) but it now seems like the system VMs are not starting up properly. I have not tried creating an instance of my own yet (need to read up on creating an ubuntu precise template first). I'll try to debug some more and will follow-up in a separate thread. -Carlos On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> > >
