Jay, yes, cfn-tools does not support Windows at this moment, and there are may be issues related to autoscaling based on Ceilometer.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Jay Lau <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Alexander for the detail explanation, really very helpful! > > What I meant for a windows cluster is actually a windows application, such > as a WebSphere cluster or a hadoop windows cluster. > > Seems I can use Cloudbase Init to do the post-deploy actions on windows, > but I cannot do some scale up or scale down for this cluster as currently > there is no cfn-tools for windows, is it correct? > > Thanks, > > Jay > > > > 2014-02-20 18:24 GMT+08:00 Alexander Tivelkov <[email protected]>: > > Hi Jay, >> >> Windows support in Heat is being developed, but is not complete yet, >> afaik. You may already use Cloudbase Init to do the post-deploy actions on >> windows - check [1] for the details. >> >> Meanwhile, running a windows cluster is a much more complicated task then >> just deploying a number of windows instances (if I understand you correctly >> and you speak about Microsoft Failover Cluster, see [2]): to build it in >> the cloud you will have to execute quite a complex workflow after the nodes >> are actually deployed, which is not possible with Heat (at least for now). >> >> Murano project ([3]) does this on top of Heat, as it was initially >> designed as Windows Data Center as a Service, so I suggest you too take a >> look at it. You may also check this video ([4]) which demonstrates how >> Murano is used to deploy a failover cluster of Windows 2012 with a >> clustered MS SQL server on top of it. >> >> >> [1] http://wiki.cloudbase.it/heat-windows >> [2] http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831579 >> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/Murano >> [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_CmrZfKy18 >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Alexander Tivelkov >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jay Lau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does HEAT support provisioning windows cluster? If so, can I also use >>> user-data to do some post install work for windows instance? Is there any >>> example template for this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jay >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > > -- > Thanks, > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Serg Melikyan, Senior Software Engineer at Mirantis, Inc. http://mirantis.com | [email protected] +7 (495) 640-4904, 0261 +7 (903) 156-0836
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