RE: CS version to work with XenServer 6.5

2015-04-02 Thread Adrian Lewis
Rohit (or anyone else able to answer) - are we waiting for any more fixes before going for a 4.5.1 RC2 vote or is it a case of David finding the time to do it? -Original Message- From: Vadim Kimlaychuk [mailto:vadim.kimlayc...@elion.ee] Sent: 02 April 2015 09:14 To: users@cloudstack.apache

RE: Any VxLan Support on Xenserver

2015-03-31 Thread Adrian Lewis
I think that the issue is with needing a controller. Unfortunately you can't just replace VLANs with VXLANs unless there's some form of control plane. You can do this in a distributed manner using broadcast to multicast mechanisms but this AFAIK is not implemented in Openvswitch. I'm not quite sure

RE: Network QoS (not bandwidth limiting)

2015-02-23 Thread Adrian Lewis
meone to takes it personally when I don't deliver > I wanted to provide some follow up to address the "rant" and try to > provide perspective on why the things are the way they are. > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Somesh Naidu > > wrote: > > Adrian, > >

RE: Network QoS (not bandwidth limiting)

2015-02-23 Thread Adrian Lewis
erspective on why the things are the way they are. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Somesh Naidu wrote: > Adrian, > > Rant or not, I believe you have raised a valid point and reflect certain > group of peoples requirement. > > Based on your requirement, I believe you are looking for s

RE: Network QoS (not bandwidth limiting)

2015-02-20 Thread Adrian Lewis
Tempted to suggest some sort of special interest group where networking people can have some input into the dev process despite not necessarily being able to produce any code themselves. As an example, Schuberg Philis have recently done some great work on the redundant VPC VR but to a network perso

RE: VPC, Redundant Router and Seamless Upgrades

2015-02-13 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi Rob, I believe it will be on the Shapeblue site early next week although the session was part presentation and part demo so you won't get the demo bit. There was no video recording done that I'm aware of. Cheers, Adrian -Original Message- From: r...@fotm.net [mailto:r...@fotm.net] Se

RE: VPC Router without NAT (IPv4 or IPv6)

2015-02-13 Thread Adrian Lewis
outer without NAT (IPv4 or IPv6) As of now there is no way to disable NAT on VPC router. -Sanjeev -Original Message- From: Adrian Lewis [mailto:adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:58 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: VPC Router without NAT (IPv

RE: VPC, Redundant Router and Seamless Upgrades

2015-02-13 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi Rob, This is actively being worked on and most of the work is done pending further testing. You should have your wishes granted in 4.6 (but no 100% guarantees). Not sure if you're UK based but you just missed a presentation on this at the London user group meet up yesterday. Some great work by

VPC Router without NAT (IPv4 or IPv6)

2015-02-12 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi, It’s been asked before but does anyone know of a way to completely disable NAT (specifically source NAT) on a VPC router on 4.4 or 4.5? There doesn’t sem to be an easy way to do this via the web interface. I’d like to use the VPC router for multi-subnet L3 routing but the ‘public’ network wo

Re: Backup Solution in Cloudstack

2015-01-30 Thread Adrian Lewis
Vision Solutions CP&R product seems pretty much abandoned. Not supported on CS versions later than v3.0. On 31 Jan 2015 00:19, "Nux!" wrote: > Not much choice here, unless you start doing backups inside the VMs. > > HTH > Lucian > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nu

RE: Backup Solution in Cloudstack

2015-01-30 Thread Adrian Lewis
I’m finding that there’s nothing (for our requirements at least) unless you go direct to the hypervisors or the VM OS instances using agents. Keen to know if anyone’s found better solutions. Think there might be some solutions if you’re only using VMware but I’ve ignored them as we’re using Xenserv

Anyone using CS to offer DRaaS?

2015-01-14 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone out there is using CS to provide customers with DR services and how? Most of the commercial products out there that might allow us to do so involve either some sort of SAN replication or else direct access to the hypervisor hosts. Vision Solutions have an old pro

RE: [VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.5.0 RC1

2015-01-14 Thread Adrian Lewis
Rohit, I don’t suppose you will be creating the el7 packages as well will you? Adrian -Original Message- From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 13 January 2015 07:37 To: d...@cloudstack.apache.org Cc: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4

RE: Centos 7 support

2015-01-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
4.5 AFAIK. Hugo's done the work for el7. If it's trivial, that would be a nice backport for 4.3/4.4 but not sure it could really be considered as a bugfix so pretty sure we'll have to wait for 4.5. -Original Message- From: Ron Wheeler [mailto:rwhee...@artifact-software.com] Sent: 09 Januar

RE: Xenserver and CEPH ?

2014-11-24 Thread Adrian Lewis
>From what I've read there won’t be support for Ceph in Creedence (Xenserver 6.5) but it is on the cards for the following release (as should NFSv4 and a Centos 7 dom0). There's a blog post from Tim Mackey at: http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/beyond-creedence-xe

RE: CentOS 7 support

2014-10-06 Thread Adrian Lewis
As far as I can tell, we're not going to see Centos 7 support for the management server on any 4.3 or 4.4 branch but the 4.5 branch should have it in already. Can't comment on compute hosts however. I'd love to hear if anyone knows otherwise though, especially about 'backporting' the functionality

RHEL/Centos 7 and CS4.4.1 MS

2014-09-29 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi, Just wondering if rather than downloading, installing and testing for myself, someone might happen to know whether the CS 4.4.1(RC) management server will work happily on Centos 7 yet? I understand that a patch has been made for 4.5/master ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-7

RE: DRaaS based on ACS

2014-09-10 Thread Adrian Lewis
ad the content into secondary ACS. Alena from Citrix explained how she did it @ CCNA14 in Denver. 3) needless to say, you IP between datacenters will change, so VMs should know how to handle that change regards ilya On 9/10/14, 7:10 AM, Adrian Lewis wrote: > Hi All, > > > > We’

DRaaS based on ACS

2014-09-10 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi All, We’re currently looking into the possibility of creating a DR as a service offering for our customers based on ACS. I’m assuming that trying to create a fully open source solution is not feasible and am looking to evaluate Vision Solutions’ Double-Take Cloud Protection and Recovery produ

RE: 404 Web Interface Not Showing -- 404 or blank screen

2014-08-27 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi Piers, Not sure if this is of any help but I've had similar issues when trying to install the mgmt server on a machine with anything less than 4G RAM. I've also found that the mgmt server can take a good few minutes to fully start up and after a while of scratching my head and trying to deciphe

RE: [ACS 4.3.1] bug fix release

2014-06-17 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi Sebastien, I'm afraid I wouldn't have a clue how to patch the source but https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6892 should be a very easy one to fix from what I can gather and would solve a fairly critical issue for anyone attempting to use the DB HA feature in 4.3. Thanks for putti

RE: Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-11 Thread Adrian Lewis
& Regards Damodar/ -Original Message- From: Adrian Lewis [mailto:adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:57 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: Examples of configuring DB HA? Hi Damoder, Thank you so much for this. I'm not sure if I've done it proper

RE: Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-10 Thread Adrian Lewis
s loader. Ideally the jar cloud-plugin-database-mysqlha-4.3.0.jar should also be loaded from the common class loader instead of webapp class loader. Can you try to load the jar "cloud-plugin-database-mysqlha-4.3.0.jar" in common.loader. Thanks & Regards Damodar/ -Original Mess

RE: Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
l META-INF/maven/org.apache.cloudstack/cloud-plugin-database-mysqlha/pom.properties [root@cs-mgmt ~]# Surely there's the class and that path is where a lot of other cloudstack-related jar files live so I'm guessing that is also in the classpath. Anyone? -Original Message- From: Adri

RE: Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
this kind of thing happens... How did you set up the CS version ? I mean fresh install 4.3 or upgrade from an older version? On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Adrian Lewis wrote: > I guess my question should perhaps be, does anyone know why the jar > that contains the class isn’t alr

RE: Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
I guess my question should perhaps be, does anyone know why the jar that contains the class isn’t already in the classpath and what's the best way to fix it? -Original Message- From: Adrian Lewis [mailto:adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk] Sent: 09 June 2014 23:37 To: users@cloudstack.apach

RE: Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
t: Re: Examples of configuring DB HA? Well, tomcat is returning 404, because the app is not running. As a consequence of a class not found exception. Find the jar that contains the classes that are missing and add them into the classpath. On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Adrian Lewis wrote: &g

RE: Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
dException: com.cloud.utils.db.StaticStrategy Anyone got any idea? Tried Googling and searching the mailing list but nothing that I can see as an answer. I’m just a lowly network engineer so wouldn’t know what these errors mean but I’m guessing I won’t be the first. Any ideas? *From:* Adrian Lewis [

Re: Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-06 Thread Adrian Lewis
imal > documentation in the 4.3 doc. The design doc also contains the links to > mysql site for setting up the replication for fresh as well as existing > setups. > > > > From the cloud stack side it is purely failover and falling back between > the IPs configured

Examples of configuring DB HA?

2014-06-05 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi all, Does anyone have any example configs or blog posts explaining the DB HA features introduced in 4.3? Between the section in the design docs on the wiki and the official docs, I’m a little confused as to how it’s supposed to be set up – they appear to differ although there’s a lot more det

RE: Presentation videos from CloudStack Collab Conference #CCCNA14

2014-05-01 Thread Adrian Lewis
And "Integration of Citrex XenDesktop and XenApp with CloudStack - Paul Howard" is cut short to about 4 minutes. Is this the right place to report things like this? Would also be nice to correct the typo if it's being uploaded again. Adrian -Original Message- From: Francois Gaudreault [ma

RE: Cloudstack with PCI compliance

2014-04-24 Thread Adrian Lewis
"the auditors are different in their understanding of the guidelines" - that's the tricky bit. PCI DSS is more of a guidance than a rigid and defined set of rules. True, there are rules but many are open to interpretation. There have been many arguments over whether or not shared infrastructure can

RE: reg: cloudstack Billing software

2014-03-26 Thread Adrian Lewis
I think the free trial mentioned is about how the software lets you give customers/tenants a free trial of your CS offering and is not related to getting a free trial of the Fogpanel software itself. -Original Message- From: Outback Dingo [mailto:outbackdi...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 March 2014

RE: Custom billing Application using CloudStack API

2014-03-06 Thread Adrian Lewis
15:39 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Custom billing Application using CloudStack API Does anyone know in more depth if Hostbill is a good solution for billing with cloudstack? Or how was your experience using Hostbill integrated with cloudstack?. De: Adrian Lewis mailto:adr.

RE: Custom billing Application using CloudStack API

2014-03-06 Thread Adrian Lewis
Not sure of the quality or its applicability to what you're doing but Hostbill have recently updated their Cloudstack integration to work with the usage data for a more utility-like way of billing. -Original Message- From: Juan Gomez [mailto:juan.go...@kumo.com.co] Sent: 06 March 2014 13:5

RE: Where is Remote Access vpn settings.

2014-02-18 Thread Adrian Lewis
AFAIK, one of the features introduced in 4.3 is remote access VPNs for VPCs. The VR in a VPC is slightly different to the VR for non-VPC usage so you may need to upgrade to 4.3. Official release seems fairly imminent (http://markmail.org/thread/3nnroif5fqr3c2q6) but could still be blocked if a majo

RE: Super CIDR on a VPC - Why the limitation?

2014-02-12 Thread Adrian Lewis
/browse/CLOUDSTACK-755 Suggest you add your vote to try and get its profile raised etc Regards Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Adrian Lewis [mailto:adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk] Sent: 12

Super CIDR on a VPC - Why the limitation?

2014-02-12 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi All, Just wondering what the purpose of specifying a "super CIDR" for a VPC actually is? Reasons for it that I can think of (not even sure of they're correct) are: 1. Sets the quickmode selectors for IPsec VPNs 2. Sets up some form of routing sanity checks such as RPF in the VR

RE: OpenDaylight Hydrogen SDN integration?

2014-02-05 Thread Adrian Lewis
On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:34 AM, Adrian Lewis wrote: > It's being worked on already. When the FOSDEM videos get uploaded I > think you should be able to take a look at Hugo Trippaers' talk: > > https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas21/ > > Can't say for

RE: OpenDaylight Hydrogen SDN integration?

2014-02-04 Thread Adrian Lewis
It's being worked on already. When the FOSDEM videos get uploaded I think you should be able to take a look at Hugo Trippaers' talk: https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas21/ Can't say for sure whether it was recorded or not though. -Original Message- From: Dag Sonstebo [mailto:

RE: 4.2.1 anytime soon?

2013-12-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
rom: Adrian Lewis [mailto:adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:23 AM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: 4.2.1 anytime soon? Do we have any projected dates for the official 4.2.1 release yet? I understand that there's an ACL disclosure issue that is under discu

RE: 4.2.1 anytime soon?

2013-12-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
mailto:run...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 November 2013 18:11 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: 4.2.1 anytime soon? On Nov 27, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Adrian Lewis wrote: > Hi Sebastien, > > Thanks for the reply and the link - I never knew about that option. > Are these RPMs likely to be upgra

RE: 4.2.1 anytime soon?

2013-11-27 Thread Adrian Lewis
November 2013 17:33 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: 4.2.1 anytime soon? On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Adrian Lewis wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Hoping that someone here might know what's holding up the release of 4.2.1? > A vote was cast back on the 12th Nov which

4.2.1 anytime soon?

2013-11-27 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi All, Hoping that someone here might know what’s holding up the release of 4.2.1? A vote was cast back on the 12th Nov which appeared to be all fine with everyone eventually. Citrix have released Cloudplatform 4.2.1. As far as I can tell, the only thing missing was finalising the release notes

RE: Multi-master MySQL Setup

2013-11-06 Thread Adrian Lewis
ion. Round robin reads and writes supported. 1] http://www.percona.com/ Patrick On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Adrian Lewis wrote: > Hi Marty/Nux!, > > Thanks for the feedback - sounds like multi-master is not a good thing > then! Load will likely be very small for at least the

RE: Multi-master MySQL Setup

2013-11-05 Thread Adrian Lewis
, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Adrian Lewis wrote: > Hi Marty/Nux!, > > Thanks for the feedback - sounds like multi-master is not a good thing > then! Load will likely be very small for at least the next 6 months > but I figured that it was one of those things that could be set easily > now

RE: Multi-master MySQL Setup

2013-11-05 Thread Adrian Lewis
your setup - what loads are you experiencing? Marty On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Adrian Lewis wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Just wondering if anyone is using a MySQL multi-master configuration > with auto_increment_offset (e.g.10) and auto_increment_increment (1 > for server

Multi-master MySQL Setup

2013-11-05 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone is using a MySQL multi-master configuration with auto_increment_offset (e.g.10) and auto_increment_increment (1 for server 1, 2 for server 2 etc)? Does it work? Does anyone know a reason why it doesn’t or wouldn’t work? Is there anything from an application point

SSVM Public IP, NAT and L2/L3 connectivity

2013-10-18 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi All, Still in the planning stages of deploying my first CS install and I have a question about the SSVM and the apparent requirement for a public routable IP address. From what I can gather, the only interaction that the SSVM has with the internet is for downloading files from user or admin s

RE: System VM Template : wrong path for downloading in 4.2

2013-10-09 Thread Adrian Lewis
Centos is wrong - I've used Centos 6.4 and the path needs to be: /usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-t mplt instead of: /usr/lib64/cloud/common/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt as documented Not sure if the download URL is correct either. I've

RE: question about snapshots and Windows Volume Shadow Copy

2013-10-07 Thread Adrian Lewis
No answers I'm afraid Len but keen to hear what the definitive answer is regarding Xen guests. Anyone? -Original Message- From: Kelven Yang [mailto:kelven.y...@citrix.com] Sent: 07 October 2013 19:10 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: question about snapshots and Windows Volume S

RE: Guest VM password reset - Complexity

2013-08-06 Thread Adrian Lewis
would also be of significant interest, > especially if there's a similar requirement enforced at the LDAP side Account passwords and instance passwords are very separate. One would hope that the instance passwords given via the "reset" function are purely throw-away/use-once passwor

RE: Guest VM password reset - Complexity

2013-08-06 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi Ian, Is this something that you might be looking to change? I would have thought that people looking to implement your LDAP work will be interested in it from a security point of view so having password complexity rules would also be of significant interest, especially if there's a similar requ

RE: Big Switch & Floodlight

2013-07-29 Thread Adrian Lewis
his front and may be able to assist with documentation but I doubt I'll be much use with development. Kind regards, Adrian -Original Message- From: Sebastien Goasguen Sent: 29 July 2013 08:44 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Big Switch & Floodlight On Jul 25, 2013, at

Big Switch & Floodlight

2013-07-25 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi All, Just wondering if the Bigswitch integration for CS requires the Big Virtual Switch component or whether this is just a complimentary aspect? I ask this as I’m wondering if the future holds the possibility of using the Floodlight controller in CS with third party Floodlight compatible ‘ap

RE: Ceph RBD With Xen Server

2013-07-19 Thread Adrian Lewis
Sebastien, The preview uses a centos install with a custom repo for the XenServer goodies. Details in the link: http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/tech-preview-of-xenserver-libvirt-ceph.htm l XAPI is part of this and this appears to be the way forward with regards to distributing XenServer as oppos

Re: Ceph RBD With Xen Server

2013-07-18 Thread Adrian Lewis
Hi, First post and only just subscribed so not sure if this will connect up with the existing thread but I’m very interested in XenServer and Ceph/RBD. I understand that Wido has informally committed to building the Xenserver/RBD glue when it is supported on XenServer (think this was in a video