Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-03-21 Thread Florian Haas
Hi everyone,

apologies for the cross-post; I believe this might be interesting to
people on both the openstack and the pacemaker lists. Please see
below.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:07 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
 wrote:
> Hi Stackers,
>
> It seems running Openstack components in High Availability hasn't been
> really a focus point lately, am I right?
>
> The general docs don't really mention HA except for nova-network. So I did
> some resource on how to run Nova in a High Availability and have some
> questions about it:
>
> The docs guides you on how to setup one cloud controller (running MySQL,
> nova-api, RabbitMQ etc.) and 2+n nodes for nova compute/network. But it does
> not mention how to make the cloud controller redundant. If the cloud
> controller brakes we have a serious problem!
>
> So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we can run
> nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and RabbitMQ has a cluster
> ha setup as well but is this the way to go? I can't find a clear answer to
> this. I am hoping one can shine some light on this!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tristan van Bokkem
> Datacenter Operations

I've taken the liberty to put together a bit of a summary of the
discussion we've had here,[1] roll it into a design summit brainstorm
proposal, and also post it on my blog, here:

http://www.hastexo.com/blogs/florian/2012/03/21/high-availability-openstack

I hope it's not a violation of list etiquette to say that instead of
cross-posting all replies to both lists, everyone's welcome to make
comments on that blog post, too (use your Launchpad OpenID). Please
feel free to flame me to a crisp or call me an idiot; as some of you
are aware I'm quite firmly an HA guy getting into OpenStack, rather
than the other way around.

Even if the design summit proposal doesn't make it through, perhaps a
few interested people (Monty? Jay? Adam? Major?) would like to sit
down over beverages to discuss this in person.

All comments and feedback much appreciated. Thanks!

Cheers,
Florian

[1] Pacemaker subscribers, for context the full thread is at
http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack@lists.launchpad.net/msg07495.html

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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-28 Thread Jay Pipes

On 02/28/2012 04:01 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:

Hi Jay,

I am using a Gelera master/master setup with Pacemaker providing an
floating IP.


Well in that case, please disregard my master-master comment! :)

-jay

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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-27 Thread Andiabes
> 
>  with a simple rsync script that runs on a periodic interval that syncs the 
> image data.
> 
>> Compute servers
>> * Each run their own copy of nova-api (only instances running on the
>> node use this)
> 
> No. Compute nodes run nova-compute, not nova-api.
> 
I think the intent here was to have access to the metadata service on each 
compute node - hence  running both n-compute and n-API (this also avoids issues 
in getting metadata requests between nodes)



>> * nova-network (multi-host configuration) with private network <-- Needs
>> its own discussion I guess.
>> 
>> Keystone
>> * How about keystone, same as glance I guess?
> 
> Similar to glance-registry.
> 
> Cheers,
> -jay
> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Tristan van Bokkem
>> Datacenter Operations
>> 
>> Contact:
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>>
>>*From:* Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com]
>>*To:* Ghe Rivero [mailto:ghe.riv...@stackops.com]
>>*Cc:* netst...@lists.launchpad.net, darren.birk...@gmail.com,
>>openstack@lists.launchpad.net
>>*Sent:* Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:13:55 +0100
>>*Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>2012/2/21 Ghe Rivero ><mailto:ghe.riv...@stackops.com>>
>> 
>>BigSwitch and Nicira have created different blueprints in
>>quantum to add their plugins for essex-4 about ten days ago,
>>Cisco already have it included almost from the beginning. No
>>news of them for the moment, but i really hope that both of them
>>make it in time!
>>Ghe Rivero
>> 
>>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-nvp-plugin
>>
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-bigswitch-plugin
>> 
>> 
>>To be clear, there are several more existing and planned plugins for
>>Quantum, even beyond the three you mention. Each plugin will make
>>its own trade-offs in terms of HA for control plane and data plane
>>components. I'm planning on organizing a talk at the Folsom
>>summit/conference where people have a chance to talk about their
>>plugins. No need for a flame war here :)
>> 
>>One other point of confusion that I'd like to address is that there
>>is NO requirement that a plugin be merged into the main Quantum repo
>>for it to be a "valid" plugin. I know of several plugins that are
>>used despite not being merged in (in fact, at the summit, we're
>>going to discuss if ANY plugins should remain in the main repo...
>>this is likely a larger decision that should be made consistently
>>across all openstack projects).
>> 
>>Dan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>2012/2/21 Diego Parrilla Santamaría
>>><mailto:diego.parrilla.santama...@gmail.com>>
>> 
>>This is the kind of flame war I love... ;-)
>> 
>>if you think the HA challenges in Openstack Nova are at
>>MySQL and Rabbit level, you are not putting the focus on the
>>right components. The biggest HA (and scalability)
>>challenges in Nova are in the networking side. There are a
>>lot of companies tackling the networking challenges of Nova
>>(BigSwitch, Nicira, Cisco, etc...), and I would like to see
>>how they evolve in the future and how they will address this
>>problem. Right now, only promises.
>> 
>>Fight!
>>--
>>Diego Parrilla
>&

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-27 Thread Jay Pipes

On 02/27/2012 08:06 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:

MySQL DB
* multi-master configuration with pacemaker providing an floating IP. <-
seems to work.


The term "multi-master" in the MySQL world typically means something 
very specific: you are running multiple master nodes, all in an active 
setup using something like MMM, MySQL Cluster or Galera Cluster. I don't 
think this is what you are referring to above. Use of pacemaker is 
typically an active/passive setup, where Pacemaker can be used to 
redirect requests from a failed active master to the passive master node 
that is in standby mode (basically, DRBD is used to replicate the InnoDB 
and binary logs from the active master to the passive node).


So, I would avoid using the term "multi-master" unless you are 
specifically talking about an active-active setup, but maybe that's just 
me being picky ;)



Glance
* Run on multiple servers <-- how do they get synced?


For the Glance registry, you can set up a passive glance-registry node 
that has connection information to your main HA-setup MySQL database 
instance.


You can do a number of things for the image storage side of things (the 
Glance API servers, not the Glance registry). You could set Glance to 
use a distributed storage backend (like Swift or RADOS) and let that 
distributed backend provide high availability.


Alternately, for smaller setups, you could do like we are doing in the 
TryStack project and use the filesystem storage backend in Glance and 
have Pacemaker monitor a passive Glance API node with a simple rsync 
script that runs on a periodic interval that syncs the image data.



Compute servers
* Each run their own copy of nova-api (only instances running on the
node use this)


No. Compute nodes run nova-compute, not nova-api.


* nova-network (multi-host configuration) with private network <-- Needs
its own discussion I guess.

Keystone
* How about keystone, same as glance I guess?


Similar to glance-registry.

Cheers,
-jay


Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
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*To:* Ghe Rivero [mailto:ghe.riv...@stackops.com]
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2012/2/21 Ghe Rivero mailto:ghe.riv...@stackops.com>>

BigSwitch and Nicira have created different blueprints in
quantum to add their plugins for essex-4 about ten days ago,
Cisco already have it included almost from the beginning. No
news of them for the moment, but i really hope that both of them
make it in time!
Ghe Rivero

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-nvp-plugin
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-bigswitch-plugin


To be clear, there are several more existing and planned plugins for
Quantum, even beyond the three you mention. Each plugin will make
its own trade-offs in terms of HA for control plane and data plane
components. I'm planning on organizing a talk at the Folsom
summit/conference where people have a chance to talk about their
plugins. No need for a flame war here :)

One other point of confusion that I'd like to address is that there
is NO requirement that a plugin be merged into the main Quantum repo
for it to be a "valid" plugin. I know of several plugins that are
used despite not being merged in (in fact, at the summit, we're
going to discuss if ANY plugins should remain in the main repo...
this is likely a larger decision that should be made consistently
across all openstack projects).

Dan



2012/2/21 Diego Parrilla Santamaría
mailto:diego.parrilla.santama...@gmail.com>>

This is the kind of flame war I love... ;-)

if you think the HA challenges in Openstack Nova are at
MySQL and Rabbit level, you 

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-27 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Alright, picture is getting more clear. Thanks all! Got some extra questions 
tho:

Font-end API servers  <-- what does this do?
 * load balanced with h/w load balancer  
 * use s/w LB for smaller deployments  
 * run nova-scheduler on each  
  
MySQL DB  
 * multi-master configuration  with pacemaker providing an floating IP. <- 
seems to work.
  
RabbitMQ service  
 * I think there are some corner cases where messages could be dropped  
during failover and I believe later RabbitMQ versions support full  
multi-master but require some client side changes - is there any plans  
to support this?  <-- I would like to know this as well!
  
nova-volume service  
 * I think this can be solved by 'building' a proper cloud app which does not 
fail if one node fails where it is living on as it should be living on multiple 
nodes/sites.
  
Glance  
  * Run on multiple servers  <-- how do they get synced?

Compute servers  
 * Each run their own copy of nova-api (only instances running on the  
node use this)  
 * nova-network (multi-host configuration) with private network  <-- Needs its 
own discussion I guess.
  
Keystone
* How about keystone, same as glance I guess?

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

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From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com]
To: Ghe Rivero [mailto:ghe.riv...@stackops.com]
Cc: netst...@lists.launchpad.net, darren.birk...@gmail.com, 
openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Sent: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:13:55 +0100
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?




2012/2/21 Ghe Rivero 

BigSwitch and Nicira have created different blueprints in quantum to add their 
plugins for essex-4 about ten days ago,  Cisco already have it included almost 
from the beginning.  No news of them for the moment, but i really hope that 
both of them make it in time!  
  Ghe Rivero


https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-nvp-plugin
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-bigswitch-plugin


To be clear, there are several more existing and planned plugins for Quantum, 
even beyond the three you mention.  Each plugin will make its own trade-offs in 
terms of HA for control plane and data plane components.  I'm planning on 
organizing a talk at the Folsom summit/conference where people have a chance to 
talk about their plugins.  No need for a flame war here :) 


One other point of confusion that I'd like to address is that there is NO 
requirement that a plugin be merged into the main Quantum repo for it to be a 
"valid" plugin.  I know of several plugins that are used despite not being 
merged in (in fact, at the summit, we're going to discuss if ANY plugins should 
remain in the main repo... this is likely a larger decision that should be made 
consistently across all openstack projects).


Dan


 

  



2012/2/21 Diego Parrilla Santamaría 
  This is the kind of flame war I love... ;-)


if you think the HA challenges in Openstack Nova are at MySQL and Rabbit level, 
you are not putting the focus on the right components. The biggest HA  (and 
scalability) challenges in Nova are in the networking side. There are a lot of 
companies tackling the networking challenges of Nova (BigSwitch, Nicira, Cisco, 
etc...), and I would like to see how they evolve in the future and how they 
will address this problem. Right now, only promises.  


Fight!

-- 

  
Diego Parrilla
CEO
  www.stackops.com |  diego.parri...@stackops.com | +34 649 94 43 29 | 
skype:diegoparrilla
  



  


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:04 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem 
 wrote:
  
  Hi Darren,

No, I am not looking at a performance increasment at this moment. Just trying 
to make the different components Nova is build on redundant. Of course a 
master/master setup of mysql / rabbitmq with a floating IP will probably work 
but it bugs me that Nova is not really build with flexibility of it components 
in mind. 
  
I understand it is impossible to cover every scenario and you can make things 
redundant into the infinitive but why doesn't have Nova any of this build in? 
Why do I need to setup a Virtual IP/floating IP where Nova simple could accept 
multiple loca

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread Dan Wendlandt
2012/2/21 Ghe Rivero 

> BigSwitch and Nicira have created different blueprints in quantum to add
> their plugins for essex-4 about ten days ago,  Cisco already have it
> included almost from the beginning.  No news of them for the moment, but i
> really hope that both of them make it in time!
>   Ghe Rivero
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-nvp-plugin
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-bigswitch-plugin
>

To be clear, there are several more existing and planned plugins for
Quantum, even beyond the three you mention.  Each plugin will make its own
trade-offs in terms of HA for control plane and data plane components.  I'm
planning on organizing a talk at the Folsom summit/conference where people
have a chance to talk about their plugins.  No need for a flame war here :)

One other point of confusion that I'd like to address is that there is NO
requirement that a plugin be merged into the main Quantum repo for it to be
a "valid" plugin.  I know of several plugins that are used despite not
being merged in (in fact, at the summit, we're going to discuss if ANY
plugins should remain in the main repo... this is likely a larger decision
that should be made consistently across all openstack projects).

Dan



>
>
> 2012/2/21 Diego Parrilla Santamaría 
>
>> This is the kind of flame war I love... ;-)
>>
>> if you think the HA challenges in Openstack Nova are at MySQL and Rabbit
>> level, you are not putting the focus on the right components. The biggest
>> HA  (and scalability) challenges in Nova are in the networking side. There
>> are a lot of companies tackling the networking challenges of Nova
>> (BigSwitch, Nicira, Cisco, etc...), and I would like to see how they evolve
>> in the future and how they will address this problem. Right now, only
>> promises.
>>
>> Fight!
>> --
>> Diego Parrilla
>> <http://www.stackops.com/>*CEO*
>> *www.stackops.com | * diego.parri...@stackops.com** | +34 649 94 43 29 |
>> skype:diegoparrilla*
>> * <http://www.stackops.com/>
>> **
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:04 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem <
>> tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>> Hi Darren,
>>>
>>> No, I am not looking at a performance increasment at this moment. Just
>>> trying to make the different components Nova is build on redundant. Of
>>> course a master/master setup of mysql / rabbitmq with a floating IP will
>>> probably work but it bugs me that Nova is not really build with flexibility
>>> of it components in mind.
>>>
>>> I understand it is impossible to cover every scenario and you can make
>>> things redundant into the infinitive but why doesn't have Nova any of this
>>> build in? Why do I need to setup a Virtual IP/floating IP where Nova simple
>>> could accept multiple locations and failover if the first location fails.
>>> Or even round-robin to distribute the load. All I am doing now is yet add
>>> another component that can possibly fail as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Tristan van Bokkem
>>> Datacenter Operations
>>>
>>> Contact:
>>> E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
>>> E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
>>> E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
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>>> Interactive 3D B.V.
>>> Meent 93b
>>> 3011 JG Rotterdam
>>> The Netherlands
>>>
>>> Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft.
>>> datacenter in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple
>>> fiber carriers in-house – Level3 PoP.
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>>> Meent 93b, Rotterdam. Registration #: 14074337 - VAT # NL 8202.63.886.B01.
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>>> security. We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the
>>> fastest growing technology companies.
>>>
>>> --
>>> *From:* Darren Birkett [mailto:darren.birk...@gmail.com]
>>> *To:* i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl]
>>> *Cc:* Florian Haas [mailto:flor...@hastexo.com],
>>> openstack@lists.launchpad.net
>>> *Sent:* Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:51:11 +0100
>>>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?
>>>
>>> Surely it depends what you want out of it? If just pure high
>>> availability (i

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread Florian Haas
For some reason it appears that Darren's message is late in making it
into my inbox, so I'm replying to Tristan's response instead.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:40 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
 wrote:
> Agreed, but you're talking about HA at a different layer - within the
> applications that will sit on top of the cloud infrastructure. Whilst
> that's absolutely valid, and a message that needs to be spread more
> amongst those designing apps for the cloud, it's not addressing the
> concerns of the OP.
>
> We still need to be thinking about HA of the cloud infrastructure
> components themselves, so that there are less failures for the app
> designers to have to tolerate in the first place.

True. There are two different layers to be addressed here, and I
believe HA of the cloud infra components is a pretty crucial one to
address.

That being said -- and excuse me for beating the Pacemaker drum again
-- the issue of sites (multiple cloud "cells", if you will, that
communicate automagically, maintain a distributed consensus about site
availability, and fail over automatically) is also solved in that
stack. The relevant project is named booth; for those who are
interested, the SUSE docs team has whipped up some useful
documentation for that:

http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/SLE-HA/SLE-ha-guide_sd_draft/cha.ha.geo.html

This is an automatic site-failover mechanism based on site "tickets",
the state of which is maintained via a simple Paxos cluster (for those
into Ceph/RADOS, this will sound familiar). Pacemaker then can simply
fire up or shut down resources (OpenStack services) based on site
availability. Third-party arbitration is supported.

Hope this is useful.

Cheers,
Florian

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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Yes, thank you.

Best regards,

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From: Darren Birkett [mailto:darren.birk...@gmail.com]
To: Michael Stein [mailto:michael.st...@q9.com]
Cc: Diego Parrilla Santamaría [mailto:diego.parrilla.santama...@gmail.com], 
i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl], 
openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Sent: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:36:23 +0100
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012/2/21 Michael Stein :
  > I think that the idea behind Nova and “cloud” computing, in general, is that
  > applications, middle-ware, databases and other services, will be delivered
  > across multiple availability zones and provide HA via application-layer
  > replication.  The concept of failure is assumed and designed for by any
  > forward thinking “cloud” designer.  I think less time need to be spent on
  > preserving nodes that maintain the “holy grail” of functionality and
  > availability and more time needs to be spent on making apps cloud-friendly.
  
  Agreed, but you're talking about HA at a different layer - within the
  applications that will sit on top of the cloud infrastructure.  Whilst
  that's absolutely valid, and a message that needs to be spread more
  amongst those designing apps for the cloud, it's not addressing the
  concerns of the OP.
  
  We still need to be thinking about HA of the cloud infrastructure
  components themselves, so that there are less failures for the app
  designers to have to tolerate in the first place.
  
  Darren
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Hm, I agree on that. Yes applications should be designed for the "cloud" no 
question there. 
How far is Nova ready for availability zones? Can I make different zones in the 
US and EU and let them work together? Is there any guidance for this available?

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From: Michael Stein [mailto:michael.st...@q9.com]
To: Diego Parrilla Santamaría [mailto:diego.parrilla.santama...@gmail.com], 
i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl]
Cc: darren.birk...@gmail.com, openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Sent: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:52:50 +0100
Subject: RE: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?




I think that the idea behind Nova and “cloud”  computing, in general, is that 
applications, middle-ware, databases and other services,  will be delivered 
across multiple availability zones and provide HA via  application-layer 
replication.  The  concept of failure is assumed and designed for by any 
forward thinking “cloud”  designer.  I think less time need to be spent on 
preserving nodes that maintain  the “holy grail” of functionality and 
availability and more time  needs to be spent on making apps cloud-friendly.

 

In the case described below, I agree with  Diego, networking is the real 
challenge.  However, with a GSLB solution and  application-level state/data 
replication you should be able to keep your  services running even with an 
entire site failure.

 

  _  



From:  openstack-bounces+mstein=q9@lists.launchpad.net  
[mailto:openstack-bounces+mstein=q9@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Diego 
Parrilla Santamaría
  Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012  7:56 AM
  To: i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
  Cc: darren.birk...@gmail.com;  openstack@lists.launchpad.net
  Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto  Nova setup with HA?

 

This is the kind of flame war I love... ;-)


 


if you think the HA challenges in Openstack Nova are at MySQL and  Rabbit 
level, you are not putting the focus on the right components. The biggest HA  
(and scalability) challenges in  Nova are in the networking side. There  are a 
lot of companies tackling the networking challenges of Nova (BigSwitch,  
Nicira, Cisco, etc...), and I would like to see how they evolve in the future  
and how they will address this problem. Right now, only promises.


 


Fight!



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On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:04 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem 
 wrote:


Hi Darren,
  
  No, I am not looking at a performance increasment at this moment. Just trying 
 to make the different components Nova is build on redundant. Of course a  
master/master setup of mysql / rabbitmq with a floating IP will probably work  
but it bugs me that Nova is not really build with flexibility of it components  
in mind. 
  
  I understand it is impossible to cover every scenario and you can make things 
 redundant into the infinitive but why doesn't have Nova any of this build in?  
Why do I need to setup a Virtual IP/floating IP where Nova simple could accept 
multiple  locations and failover if the first location fails. Or even 
round-robin to  distribute the load. All I am doing now is yet add another 
component that can  possibly fail as well.



  
  Best regards,
  
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  Datacenter Operations
  
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread Ghe Rivero
BigSwitch and Nicira have created different blueprints in quantum to add
their plugins for essex-4 about ten days ago,  Cisco already have it
included almost from the beginning.  No news of them for the moment, but i
really hope that both of them make it in time!
  Ghe Rivero

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-nvp-plugin
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-bigswitch-plugin


2012/2/21 Diego Parrilla Santamaría 

> This is the kind of flame war I love... ;-)
>
> if you think the HA challenges in Openstack Nova are at MySQL and Rabbit
> level, you are not putting the focus on the right components. The biggest
> HA  (and scalability) challenges in Nova are in the networking side. There
> are a lot of companies tackling the networking challenges of Nova
> (BigSwitch, Nicira, Cisco, etc...), and I would like to see how they evolve
> in the future and how they will address this problem. Right now, only
> promises.
>
> Fight!
> --
> Diego Parrilla
> <http://www.stackops.com/>*CEO*
> *www.stackops.com | * diego.parri...@stackops.com** | +34 649 94 43 29 |
> skype:diegoparrilla*
> * <http://www.stackops.com/>
> **
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:04 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem <
> tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Hi Darren,
>>
>> No, I am not looking at a performance increasment at this moment. Just
>> trying to make the different components Nova is build on redundant. Of
>> course a master/master setup of mysql / rabbitmq with a floating IP will
>> probably work but it bugs me that Nova is not really build with flexibility
>> of it components in mind.
>>
>> I understand it is impossible to cover every scenario and you can make
>> things redundant into the infinitive but why doesn't have Nova any of this
>> build in? Why do I need to setup a Virtual IP/floating IP where Nova simple
>> could accept multiple locations and failover if the first location fails.
>> Or even round-robin to distribute the load. All I am doing now is yet add
>> another component that can possibly fail as well.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tristan van Bokkem
>> Datacenter Operations
>>
>> Contact:
>> E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
>> E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
>> E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
>> Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
>> Interactive 3D B.V.
>> Meent 93b
>> 3011 JG Rotterdam
>> The Netherlands
>>
>> Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft.
>> datacenter in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple
>> fiber carriers in-house – Level3 PoP.
>>
>> Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is a company registered in The Netherlands at
>> Meent 93b, Rotterdam. Registration #: 14074337 - VAT # NL 8202.63.886.B01.
>> Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is CDSA certified on content protection and
>> security. We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the
>> fastest growing technology companies.
>>
>> --
>> *From:* Darren Birkett [mailto:darren.birk...@gmail.com]
>> *To:* i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl]
>> *Cc:* Florian Haas [mailto:flor...@hastexo.com],
>> openstack@lists.launchpad.net
>> *Sent:* Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:51:11 +0100
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?
>>
>> Surely it depends what you want out of it? If just pure high
>> availability (ie ability to continue functioning when primary node
>> goes down), then doesn't a master/master with floating IP fit the
>> bill?
>>
>> It sounds like what you're after is better performance/throughput
>> rather than HA - the ability to write to multiple masters at the same
>> time. Even here if nova *was* able to hit multiple databases, a
>> master/master setup isn't going to suit, as each write to one master
>> still needs to be replicated to the other so throughput is going to be
>> the same. You'd then need to look to something like a native mysql
>> cluster to get actual increased throughput.
>>
>> Darren
>>
>> On 21 February 2012 11:34, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
>>
>>  wrote:
>> > Ho Florian,
>> >
>> > I respect your opinion of course and I am not here to start a fight.
>> Point
>> > is, how I understand it Nova really isn't very flexible on High
>> Availability
>> > terms. I have now a master/master mysql setup with a Virtual IP working
>> just
>> > to work around the shortcomings Nova imo introduces. This same story
&

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread Diego Parrilla Santamaría
This is the kind of flame war I love... ;-)

if you think the HA challenges in Openstack Nova are at MySQL and Rabbit
level, you are not putting the focus on the right components. The biggest
HA  (and scalability) challenges in Nova are in the networking side. There
are a lot of companies tackling the networking challenges of Nova
(BigSwitch, Nicira, Cisco, etc...), and I would like to see how they evolve
in the future and how they will address this problem. Right now, only
promises.

Fight!
-- 
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<http://www.stackops.com/>*CEO*
*www.stackops.com | * diego.parri...@stackops.com** | +34 649 94 43 29 |
skype:diegoparrilla*
* <http://www.stackops.com/>
**



On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:04 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem <
tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl> wrote:

> **
> Hi Darren,
>
> No, I am not looking at a performance increasment at this moment. Just
> trying to make the different components Nova is build on redundant. Of
> course a master/master setup of mysql / rabbitmq with a floating IP will
> probably work but it bugs me that Nova is not really build with flexibility
> of it components in mind.
>
> I understand it is impossible to cover every scenario and you can make
> things redundant into the infinitive but why doesn't have Nova any of this
> build in? Why do I need to setup a Virtual IP/floating IP where Nova simple
> could accept multiple locations and failover if the first location fails.
> Or even round-robin to distribute the load. All I am doing now is yet add
> another component that can possibly fail as well.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tristan van Bokkem
> Datacenter Operations
>
> Contact:
> E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
> E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
> E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
> Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
> Interactive 3D B.V.
> Meent 93b
> 3011 JG Rotterdam
> The Netherlands
>
> Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft. datacenter
> in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple fiber
> carriers in-house – Level3 PoP.
>
> Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is a company registered in The Netherlands at
> Meent 93b, Rotterdam. Registration #: 14074337 - VAT # NL 8202.63.886.B01.
> Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is CDSA certified on content protection and
> security. We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the
> fastest growing technology companies.
>
> --
> *From:* Darren Birkett [mailto:darren.birk...@gmail.com]
> *To:* i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl]
> *Cc:* Florian Haas [mailto:flor...@hastexo.com],
> openstack@lists.launchpad.net
> *Sent:* Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:51:11 +0100
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?
>
> Surely it depends what you want out of it? If just pure high
> availability (ie ability to continue functioning when primary node
> goes down), then doesn't a master/master with floating IP fit the
> bill?
>
> It sounds like what you're after is better performance/throughput
> rather than HA - the ability to write to multiple masters at the same
> time. Even here if nova *was* able to hit multiple databases, a
> master/master setup isn't going to suit, as each write to one master
> still needs to be replicated to the other so throughput is going to be
> the same. You'd then need to look to something like a native mysql
> cluster to get actual increased throughput.
>
> Darren
>
> On 21 February 2012 11:34, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
>
>  wrote:
> > Ho Florian,
> >
> > I respect your opinion of course and I am not here to start a fight.
> Point
> > is, how I understand it Nova really isn't very flexible on High
> Availability
> > terms. I have now a master/master mysql setup with a Virtual IP working
> just
> > to work around the shortcomings Nova imo introduces. This same story goes
> > for RabbitMQ, I need to setup RabbitMQ in HA (which is fine) but I need
> to
> > setup a Virtual IP for it as well just so Nova can correctly connect to
> it.
> > Without the VIP the hole point of setting it up in a cluster is useless
> as
> > you still will point nova to one single host.
> >
> > It shouldn't be that hard to make Nova listen to multiple mysql addresses
> > and rabbitmq hosts in a cluster?
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Tristan van Bokkem
> > Datacenter Operations
> >
> > Contact:
> > E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
> > E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
> > E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
> > Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
> > Interactive 3D B.V.
> > Meent 93b
> > 3011 JG Rotterdam
> > The 

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread Florian Haas
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Darren Birkett
 wrote:
> Surely it depends what you want out of it?  If just pure high
> availability (ie ability to continue functioning  when primary node
> goes down), then doesn't a master/master with floating IP fit the
> bill?

Master/master with a floating IP, MySQL-on-DRBD with a floating IP,
MySQL-on-SAN with a floating IP, even MySQL-on-RBD (if your storage
pool is RADOS based) with a floating IP might be an option.

> It sounds like what you're after is better performance/throughput
> rather than HA - the ability to write to multiple masters at the same
> time.  Even here if nova *was* able to hit multiple databases, a
> master/master setup isn't going to suit, as each write to one master
> still needs to be replicated to the other so throughput is going to be
> the same.  You'd then need to look to something like a native mysql
> cluster to get actual increased throughput.

Essentially -- and there are much more acclaimed MySQL experts on this
list who will correct me if I'm wrong -- most general-purpose write
scalability options for MySQL ultimately boil down to sharding the
database, anyhow. Which is an problem different from, and orthogonal
to, replication and high availability.

Cheers,
Florian

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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread Florian Haas
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:34 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
 wrote:
> Ho Florian,
>
> I respect your opinion of course and I am not here to start a fight. Point
> is, how I understand it Nova really isn't very flexible on High Availability
> terms. I have now a master/master mysql setup with a Virtual IP working just
> to work around the shortcomings Nova imo introduces. This same story goes
> for RabbitMQ, I need to setup RabbitMQ in HA (which is fine) but I need to
> setup a Virtual IP for it as well just so Nova can correctly connect to it.
> Without the VIP the hole point of setting it up in a cluster is useless as
> you still will point nova to one single host.

Well yes, that's a given. Thankfully you have a set of tools at hand
that make this very easy.

> It shouldn't be that hard to make Nova listen to multiple mysql addresses
> and rabbitmq hosts in a cluster?

And then what? So it talks to multiple MySQLs, and you'll have to take
care of database consistency by yourself. Or it talks to multiple
RabbitMQs, and you'll need a way to synchronize your queues.

Question is, as Darren has also said in this thread, whether you
really want HA, or scaleout. Or both. But interestingly, Pacemaker can
serve you just fine for all of that.

Let me repeat, though, I am clearly biased -- see URL in my sig block
for details.

Cheers,
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Hi Darren,

No, I am not looking at a performance increasment at this moment. Just trying 
to make the different components Nova is build on redundant. Of course a 
master/master setup of mysql / rabbitmq with a floating IP will probably work 
but it bugs me that Nova is not really build with flexibility of it components 
in mind. 

I understand it is impossible to cover every scenario and you can make things 
redundant into the infinitive but why doesn't have Nova any of this build in? 
Why do I need to setup a Virtual IP/floating IP where Nova simple could accept 
multiple locations and failover if the first location fails. Or even 
round-robin to distribute the load. All I am doing now is yet add another 
component that can possibly fail as well.

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

Contact:
E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
Interactive 3D B.V.
Meent 93b
3011 JG Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft. datacenter in 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple fiber carriers 
in-house – Level3 PoP.

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Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is CDSA certified on content protection and security. 
We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing 
technology companies.
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From: Darren Birkett [mailto:darren.birk...@gmail.com]
To: i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl]
Cc: Florian Haas [mailto:flor...@hastexo.com], openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Sent: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:51:11 +0100
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

Surely it depends what you want out of it?  If just pure high
  availability (ie ability to continue functioning  when primary node
  goes down), then doesn't a master/master with floating IP fit the
  bill?
  
  It sounds like what you're after is better performance/throughput
  rather than HA - the ability to write to multiple masters at the same
  time.  Even here if nova *was* able to hit multiple databases, a
  master/master setup isn't going to suit, as each write to one master
  still needs to be replicated to the other so throughput is going to be
  the same.  You'd then need to look to something like a native mysql
  cluster to get actual increased throughput.
  
  Darren
  
  On 21 February 2012 11:34, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
   wrote:
  > Ho Florian,
  >
  > I respect your opinion of course and I am not here to start a fight. Point
  > is, how I understand it Nova really isn't very flexible on High Availability
  > terms. I have now a master/master mysql setup with a Virtual IP working just
  > to work around the shortcomings Nova imo introduces. This same story goes
  > for RabbitMQ, I need to setup RabbitMQ in HA (which is fine) but I need to
  > setup a Virtual IP for it as well just so Nova can correctly connect to it.
  > Without the VIP the hole point of setting it up in a cluster is useless as
  > you still will point nova to one single host.
  >
  > It shouldn't be that hard to make Nova listen to multiple mysql addresses
  > and rabbitmq hosts in a cluster?
  >
  >
  > Best regards,
  >
  > Tristan van Bokkem
  > Datacenter Operations
  >
  > Contact:
  > E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
  > E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
  > E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
  > Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
  > Interactive 3D B.V.
  > Meent 93b
  > 3011 JG Rotterdam
  > The Netherlands
  >
  > Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft. datacenter in
  > Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple fiber carriers
  > in-house – Level3 PoP.
  >
  > Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is a company registered in The Netherlands at Meent
  > 93b, Rotterdam. Registration #: 14074337 - VAT # NL 8202.63.886.B01.
  > Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is CDSA certified on content protection and
  > security. We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the
  > fastest growing technology companies.
  >
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  > From: Florian Haas [mailto:flor...@hastexo.com]
  > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
  > Sent: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:32:51 +0100
  >
  > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?
  >
  > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:28 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
  >  wrote:
  >> Hi Tom,
  >>
  >> Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, this will help not only
  >> me!
  >> As I am still working on the MySQL part, you mentioned multi-master which
  >> I
  >> have running indeed, but I suppose there still will nee

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-21 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Ho Florian,

I respect your opinion of course and I am not here to start a fight. Point is, 
how I understand it Nova really isn't very flexible on High Availability terms. 
I have now a master/master mysql setup with a Virtual IP working just to work 
around the shortcomings Nova imo introduces. This same story goes for RabbitMQ, 
I need to setup RabbitMQ in HA (which is fine) but I need to setup a Virtual IP 
for it as well just so Nova can correctly connect to it. Without the VIP the 
hole point of setting it up in a cluster is useless as you still will point 
nova to one single host.

It shouldn't be that hard to make Nova listen to multiple mysql addresses and 
rabbitmq hosts in a cluster?

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

Contact:
E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
Interactive 3D B.V.
Meent 93b
3011 JG Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft. datacenter in 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple fiber carriers 
in-house – Level3 PoP.

Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is a company registered in The Netherlands at Meent 
93b, Rotterdam. Registration #: 14074337 - VAT # NL 8202.63.886.B01. 
Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is CDSA certified on content protection and security. 
We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing 
technology companies.
  _  

From: Florian Haas [mailto:flor...@hastexo.com]
To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Sent: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:32:51 +0100
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:28 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
   wrote:
  > Hi Tom,
  >
  > Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, this will help not only me!
  > As I am still working on the MySQL part, you mentioned multi-master which I
  > have running indeed, but I suppose there still will need to be some kind of
  > entering point within the cluster. How did you managed this?
  
  Virtual cluster IP addresses and highly available MySQL (either DRBD
  or MySQL replication based). Pacemaker is very well capable of
  managing this.
  
  Of course, since you also quoted
  http://openlife.cc/blogs/2011/july/ultimate-mysql-high-availability-solution
  parts of which I wholeheartedly disagree with (as with all of Henrik's
  Pacemaker bashing, but he's of course entitled to his own opinion),
  then you might run away screaming from anything that barely mentions
  Pacemaker in passing. But in reality[1], Pacemaker is an extremely
  capable HA stack that would be well suited for this.
  
  Cheers,
  Florian
  
  [1] To be polite, I should say "in my humble opinion," but my opinion
  on this really isn't humble at all, so I prefer being honest over
  being polite. :)
  
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-17 Thread Florian Haas
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Tom Ellis  wrote:
> nova-volume service
>  * Current weakness in the HA setup, unless you are willing to use iscsi
> tgtd with DRBD. I believe this would still have some problems when
> failing over with the initiators that are logged in.

Nope, this is well understood and supported. It all amounts to getting
the Pacemaker configuration right, but DRBD-backed, tgt-based iSCSI
targets are perfectly capable of failover that is fully transparent to
initiators.

That being said, of course nova-volume with RBD (RADOS block device)
would be another approach that may provide better reliability (more
replicas, where DRBD is limited to 2 -- 4 with some trickery), better
scaleout (seamless expansion and contraction of the storage space),
and better self-healing capabilities (automatic rebalancing if
individual replicas fail).

Hope this is useful.

Cheers,
Florian

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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-16 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Hi Tom,

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, this will help not only me! 
As I am still working on the MySQL part, you mentioned multi-master which I 
have running indeed, but I suppose there still will need to be some kind of 
entering point within the cluster. How did you managed this?

Best regards,

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From: Tom Ellis [mailto:tom.el...@canonical.com]
To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Sent: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:09:15 +0100
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

On 16/02/12 08:46, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:
  > Any more thoughts about this subject? Ask? Vish?
  
  The team I work in has looked at a number of methods for high
  availability within the Diablo release and I've included some notes
  below, hope this helps.
  
  Font-end API servers
   * load balanced with h/w load balancer
   * use s/w LB for smaller deployments
   * run nova-scheduler on each
  
  MySQL DB
   * multi-master configuration
   * alternative: drbd + pacemaker in active/passive
  
  RabbitMQ service
   * Pacemaker with Active-passive configuration
   * Based on example from RabbitMQ site (already mentioned by someone else)
   * Virtual IP for the service - used for rabbitmq config in nova.conf
   * I think there are some corner cases where messages could be dropped
  during failover and I believe later RabbitMQ versions support full
  multi-master but require some client side changes - is there any plans
  to support this?
  
  nova-volume service
   * Current weakness in the HA setup, unless you are willing to use iscsi
  tgtd with DRBD. I believe this would still have some problems when
  failing over with the initiators that are logged in.
   * I'm hoping this will pan out for essex with some of the storage
  vendors committing nova-volume support via their API's.
  
  Glance
* Run on multiple servers
* Use another VIP in your pacemaker setup or load-balancer
* Use swift as backend storage
  
  Compute servers
   * Each run their own copy of nova-api (only instances running on the
  node use this)
   * nova-network (multi-host configuration) with private network
  
  Swift
   * Run swift-proxy across all swift-storage nodes on a small setup
  
  
  Regards,
  
  Tom
  
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-16 Thread Tom Ellis
On 16/02/12 08:46, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:
> Any more thoughts about this subject? Ask? Vish?

The team I work in has looked at a number of methods for high
availability within the Diablo release and I've included some notes
below, hope this helps.

Font-end API servers
 * load balanced with h/w load balancer
 * use s/w LB for smaller deployments
 * run nova-scheduler on each

MySQL DB
 * multi-master configuration
 * alternative: drbd + pacemaker in active/passive

RabbitMQ service
 * Pacemaker with Active-passive configuration
 * Based on example from RabbitMQ site (already mentioned by someone else)
 * Virtual IP for the service - used for rabbitmq config in nova.conf
 * I think there are some corner cases where messages could be dropped
during failover and I believe later RabbitMQ versions support full
multi-master but require some client side changes - is there any plans
to support this?

nova-volume service
 * Current weakness in the HA setup, unless you are willing to use iscsi
tgtd with DRBD. I believe this would still have some problems when
failing over with the initiators that are logged in.
 * I'm hoping this will pan out for essex with some of the storage
vendors committing nova-volume support via their API's.

Glance
  * Run on multiple servers
  * Use another VIP in your pacemaker setup or load-balancer
  * Use swift as backend storage

Compute servers
 * Each run their own copy of nova-api (only instances running on the
node use this)
 * nova-network (multi-host configuration) with private network

Swift
 * Run swift-proxy across all swift-storage nodes on a small setup


Regards,

Tom

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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-16 Thread Jay Pipes

On 02/16/2012 07:32 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:

Interesting. Could you point us to the github location?


I will as soon as I verify with Nati that all the most-current code has 
been pushed there :) Expect an email later today.



Anyway, ive have done some further research myself and find this very
interesting mysql replication setup done by wsrep
(https://launchpad.net/wsrep) and galeria
(https://launchpad.net/galera/) where mysql will run as a Synchronous
Multi-Master replication setup.

I have this running and works perfect but the problem now is. I need to
add some kind of loadbalancing setup as nova can only point to one mysql
location (i.e. --sql_connection=) So if I would point it to one of the
mysql nodes in the cluster and that one fails everything fails. Adding a
loadbalancer and point it to that will keep my mysql alive.


Yep, this is a perfectly good solution for MySQL.


The main issue with this is, we are adding another point where we have
yet to configure and maintain several more nodes. I would like to raise
the question if it would be possible for nova to accept multiple mysql
connection points and therefor drop the need for extra loadbalancer
component and reducing complexity.


I would strongly resist pressure to add complexity to the Nova (or other 
core projects) code base when an existing solution is available that is 
tailored to meet the need already (install a loadbalancer...)


Cheers,
-kjay


Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
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*From:* Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com]
*To:* Alexis Richardson [mailto:ale...@rabbitmq.com]
*Cc:* openstack@lists.launchpad.net
*Sent:* Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:11:36 +0100
    *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

Yup, absolutely... we've been a bit slammed working on getting the
project up and running, but everything is checked in to GitHub... just
needs a bit of clean up, that's all.

Best,
-jay

On 02/16/2012 07:10 AM, Alexis Richardson wrote:
 > It would be great to see the cookbooks if they are available, since
 > others doing that setups might want such a thing.
 >
 >
 >
 > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jay Pipesmailto:jaypi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
 >> FWIW, we're using DRBD + pacemaker in active/passive setups for
both the
 >> MySQL and RabbitMQ setup in the trystack.org (the artist
formerly known as
 >> FreeCloud) project, and it's working quite well and is pretty
simple to set
 >> up. Nati Ueno could give some more details on the setup and the Chef
 >> cookbooks used...
 >>
 >> Best,
 >> -jay
 >>
 >> On 02/16/2012 03:46 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:
 >>>
 >>> Any more thoughts about this subject? Ask? Vish?
 >>>
 >>> Best regards,
 >>>
 >>> Tristan van Bokkem
 >>> Datacenter Operations
 >>>
 >>> Contact:
 >>> E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
<mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.net>
 >>> <mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.net <mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.net>>
 >>> E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
<mailto:i...@i3d.net><mailto:i...@i3d.net <mailto:i...@i3d.net>>
 >>> E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net <mailto:n...@i3d.net><mailto:n...@i3d.net
<mailto:n...@i3d.net>>
 >>> Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
 >>> Interactive 3D B.V.
 >>> Meent 93b
 >>> 3011 JG Rotterdam
 >>> The Netherlands
 >>>
 >>> Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft.
 >>> datacenter in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting –
 >>> multiple fiber carriers in-house – Level3 PoP.
 >>>

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-16 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Interesting. Could you point us to the github location? 

Anyway, ive have done some further research myself and find this very 
interesting mysql replication setup done by wsrep (https://launchpad.net/wsrep) 
and galeria (https://launchpad.net/galera/) where mysql will run as a 
Synchronous Multi-Master replication setup. 

I have this running and works perfect but the problem now is. I need to add 
some kind of loadbalancing setup as nova can only point to one mysql location 
(i.e. --sql_connection=) So if I would point it to one of the mysql nodes in 
the cluster and that one fails everything fails. Adding a loadbalancer and 
point it to that will keep my mysql alive. 

The main issue with this is, we are adding another point where we have yet to 
configure and maintain several more nodes. I would like to raise the question 
if it would be possible for nova to accept multiple mysql connection points and 
therefor drop the need for extra loadbalancer component and reducing complexity.

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

Contact:
E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
Interactive 3D B.V.
Meent 93b
3011 JG Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft. datacenter in 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple fiber carriers 
in-house – Level3 PoP.

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93b, Rotterdam. Registration #: 14074337 - VAT # NL 8202.63.886.B01. 
Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is CDSA certified on content protection and security. 
We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing 
technology companies.
  _  

From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com]
To: Alexis Richardson [mailto:ale...@rabbitmq.com]
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Sent: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:11:36 +0100
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

Yup, absolutely... we've been a bit slammed working on getting the 
  project up and running, but everything is checked in to GitHub... just 
  needs a bit of clean up, that's all.
  
  Best,
  -jay
  
  On 02/16/2012 07:10 AM, Alexis Richardson wrote:
  > It would be great to see the cookbooks if they are available, since
  > others doing that setups might want such a thing.
  >
  >
  >
  > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jay Pipes  wrote:
  >> FWIW, we're using DRBD + pacemaker in active/passive setups for both the
  >> MySQL and RabbitMQ setup in the trystack.org (the artist formerly known as
  >> FreeCloud) project, and it's working quite well and is pretty simple to set
  >> up. Nati Ueno could give some more details on the setup and the Chef
  >> cookbooks used...
  >>
  >> Best,
  >> -jay
  >>
  >> On 02/16/2012 03:46 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:
  >>>
  >>> Any more thoughts about this subject? Ask? Vish?
  >>>
  >>> Best regards,
  >>>
  >>> Tristan van Bokkem
  >>> Datacenter Operations
  >>>
  >>> Contact:
  >>> E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
  >>> <mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.net>
  >>> E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net<mailto:i...@i3d.net>
  >>> E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net<mailto:n...@i3d.net>
  >>> Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
  >>> Interactive 3D B.V.
  >>> Meent 93b
  >>> 3011 JG Rotterdam
  >>> The Netherlands
  >>>
  >>> Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft.
  >>> datacenter in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting –
  >>> multiple fiber carriers in-house – Level3 PoP.
  >>>
  >>> Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is a company registered in The Netherlands at
  >>> Meent 93b, Rotterdam. Registration #: 14074337 - VAT # NL
  >>> 8202.63.886.B01. Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is CDSA certified on content
  >>> protection and security. We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast
  >>> 50 as one of the fastest growing technology companies.
  >>>
  >>>
  >>>   ----
  >>> *From:* Alexis Richardson [mailto:ale...@rabbitmq.com]
  >>> *To:* Major Hayden [mailto:major.hay...@rackspace.com]
  >>> *Cc:* i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl],
  >>> 
  >>> [mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net], Ask Solem
  >>> [mailto:a...@rabbitmq.com]
  >>> *Sent:* Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:47:13 +0100
  >>> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?
  >>>
  >>>
  >>> Major,
  >>

Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-16 Thread Jay Pipes
Yup, absolutely... we've been a bit slammed working on getting the 
project up and running, but everything is checked in to GitHub... just 
needs a bit of clean up, that's all.


Best,
-jay

On 02/16/2012 07:10 AM, Alexis Richardson wrote:

It would be great to see the cookbooks if they are available, since
others doing that setups might want such a thing.



On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jay Pipes  wrote:

FWIW, we're using DRBD + pacemaker in active/passive setups for both the
MySQL and RabbitMQ setup in the trystack.org (the artist formerly known as
FreeCloud) project, and it's working quite well and is pretty simple to set
up. Nati Ueno could give some more details on the setup and the Chef
cookbooks used...

Best,
-jay

On 02/16/2012 03:46 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:


Any more thoughts about this subject? Ask? Vish?

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

Contact:
E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
<mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.net>
E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net<mailto:i...@i3d.net>
E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net<mailto:n...@i3d.net>
Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
Interactive 3D B.V.
Meent 93b
3011 JG Rotterdam
The Netherlands

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50 as one of the fastest growing technology companies.


  
*From:* Alexis Richardson [mailto:ale...@rabbitmq.com]
*To:* Major Hayden [mailto:major.hay...@rackspace.com]
*Cc:* i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl],

[mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net], Ask Solem
[mailto:a...@rabbitmq.com]
*Sent:* Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:47:13 +0100
    *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?


Major,

The current set-up of HA in Openstack is borked in several ways.

Ask Solem, cc'd, is going to write up a note helping people to do it
properly.

alexis


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Major Hayden
mailto:major.hay...@rackspace.com>>  wrote:
 >  On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:07 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:
 >
 >>  So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we
can run nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and
RabbitMQ has a cluster ha setup as well but is this the way to go? I
can't find a clear answer to this. I am hoping one can shine some
light on this!
 >
 >  If you want to make things a little simpler, an active/passive
MySQL setup with pacemaker, corosync, and DRBD will work quite well.
ClusterLabs has a pretty decent howto on their site:
 >
 >  http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/DRBD_MySQL_HowTo
 >
 >  As for RabbitMQ clustering, I worked with it for several days and
had quite a few problems with data consistency and availability. We
eventually settled on the "legacy" H/A method for RabbitMQ using
pacemaker and DRBD. There's a pretty good walkthrough on RabbitMQ's
site:
 >
 >  http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html
 >
 >  --
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-16 Thread Jay Pipes
FWIW, we're using DRBD + pacemaker in active/passive setups for both the 
MySQL and RabbitMQ setup in the trystack.org (the artist formerly known 
as FreeCloud) project, and it's working quite well and is pretty simple 
to set up. Nati Ueno could give some more details on the setup and the 
Chef cookbooks used...


Best,
-jay

On 02/16/2012 03:46 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:

Any more thoughts about this subject? Ask? Vish?

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

Contact:
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*From:* Alexis Richardson [mailto:ale...@rabbitmq.com]
*To:* Major Hayden [mailto:major.hay...@rackspace.com]
*Cc:* i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl],

[mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net], Ask Solem
[mailto:a...@rabbitmq.com]
*Sent:* Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:47:13 +0100
    *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

Major,

The current set-up of HA in Openstack is borked in several ways.

Ask Solem, cc'd, is going to write up a note helping people to do it
properly.

alexis


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Major Hayden
mailto:major.hay...@rackspace.com>> wrote:
 > On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:07 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:
 >
 >> So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we
can run nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and
RabbitMQ has a cluster ha setup as well but is this the way to go? I
can't find a clear answer to this. I am hoping one can shine some
light on this!
 >
 > If you want to make things a little simpler, an active/passive
MySQL setup with pacemaker, corosync, and DRBD will work quite well.
ClusterLabs has a pretty decent howto on their site:
 >
 > http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/DRBD_MySQL_HowTo
 >
 > As for RabbitMQ clustering, I worked with it for several days and
had quite a few problems with data consistency and availability. We
eventually settled on the "legacy" H/A method for RabbitMQ using
pacemaker and DRBD. There's a pretty good walkthrough on RabbitMQ's
site:
 >
 > http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html
 >
 > --
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-16 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Any more thoughts about this subject? Ask? Vish?

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

Contact:
E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
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Meent 93b
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The Netherlands

Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft. datacenter in 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple fiber carriers 
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We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing 
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From: Alexis Richardson [mailto:ale...@rabbitmq.com]
To: Major Hayden [mailto:major.hay...@rackspace.com]
Cc: i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl], 
 [mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net], Ask 
Solem [mailto:a...@rabbitmq.com]
Sent: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:47:13 +0100
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

Major,
  
  The current set-up of HA in Openstack is borked in several ways.
  
  Ask Solem, cc'd, is going to write up a note helping people to do it properly.
  
  alexis
  
  
  On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Major Hayden
   wrote:
  > On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:07 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:
  >
  >> So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we can run 
nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and RabbitMQ has a cluster ha 
setup as well but is this the way to go? I can't find a clear answer to this. I 
am hoping one can shine some light on this!
  >
  > If you want to make things a little simpler, an active/passive MySQL setup 
with pacemaker, corosync, and DRBD will work quite well.  ClusterLabs has a 
pretty decent howto on their site:
  >
  >  http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/DRBD_MySQL_HowTo
  >
  > As for RabbitMQ clustering, I worked with it for several days and had quite 
a few problems with data consistency and availability.  We eventually settled 
on the "legacy" H/A method for RabbitMQ using pacemaker and DRBD.  There's a 
pretty good walkthrough on RabbitMQ's site:
  >
  >  http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html
  >
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-14 Thread Major Hayden
On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:07 AM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem wrote:

> So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we can run 
> nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and RabbitMQ has a cluster 
> ha setup as well but is this the way to go? I can't find a clear answer to 
> this. I am hoping one can shine some light on this!

If you want to make things a little simpler, an active/passive MySQL setup with 
pacemaker, corosync, and DRBD will work quite well.  ClusterLabs has a pretty 
decent howto on their site:

  http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/DRBD_MySQL_HowTo

As for RabbitMQ clustering, I worked with it for several days and had quite a 
few problems with data consistency and availability.  We eventually settled on 
the "legacy" H/A method for RabbitMQ using pacemaker and DRBD.  There's a 
pretty good walkthrough on RabbitMQ's site:

  http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html

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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-14 Thread Sébastien Han
Hi Tristan,

When I saw your post, I though what about an pacemaker ressource agent?
Corosync for the messaging layer and pacemaker for the ressource
management. Maybe someone as wrote a script ressource agent for nova in
order to manage the failover.
Also DRBD can be useful.
And then after a couple of research on Google, I found this 3 links:

   - https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/pdfGiNwMEtUBJ.pdf
   - http://wiki.openstack.org/HAforNovaDB
   - http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/pacemaker-cloud/

Hope this will help you.

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem <
tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl> wrote:

> **
> Hi Christian,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> With mysql master/master i meant the following: http://mysql-mmm.org/ but
> it seems they are using 2 different locations for mysql reads and writes.
> Something nova is (yet) not able to configure (i.e. --sql_connection= which
> is being used for reads and rights.)
>
> Maybe http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/ is a better way..
>
> RabbitMQ HA i am aware of. This is something we are looking at as well.
>
> The main question is how does other companies reach HA with openstack? I
> can't find any good information on the net about it.
> And how does Essex change things?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tristan van Bokkem
> Datacenter Operations
>
> Contact:
> E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
> E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
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> Interactive 3D B.V.
> Meent 93b
> 3011 JG Rotterdam
> The Netherlands
>
> Visit www.smartdc.net – SmartDC is our in-house 36,000 sq. ft. datacenter
> in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple fiber
> carriers in-house – Level3 PoP.
>
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> Meent 93b, Rotterdam. Registration #: 14074337 - VAT # NL 8202.63.886.B01.
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> fastest growing technology companies.
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> --
> *From:* Christian Berendt [mailto:bere...@b1-systems.de]
> *To:* i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl]
> *Cc:* openstack@lists.launchpad.net
> *Sent:* Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:54:38 +0100
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?
>
>
> Hi Tristan.
>
> > So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we can
> > run nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and RabbitMQ
> > has a cluster ha setup as well but is this the way to go? I can't
> > find a clear answer to this. I am hoping one can shine some light on
> > this!
>
> I would prefer to use MySQL Cluster:
> http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/. You meant that with MySQL
> master-master?
>
> For RabbitMQ there are several ways to setup it:
> http://www.rabbitmq.com/ha.html.
>
> I think the customer site has to decide which HA setup they want use.
> All types have advantages and disadvantages.
>
> HTH, Christian.
>
> --
> Christian Berendt
> Linux / Unix Consultant & Developer
> Mail: bere...@b1-systems.de
>
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> Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-14 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Hi Christian,

Thanks for your reply.

With mysql master/master i meant the following: http://mysql-mmm.org/ but it 
seems they are using 2 different locations for mysql reads and writes. 
Something nova is (yet) not able to configure (i.e. --sql_connection= which is 
being used for reads and rights.)

Maybe http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/ is a better way..

RabbitMQ HA i am aware of. This is something we are looking at as well.

The main question is how does other companies reach HA with openstack? I can't 
find any good information on the net about it.
And how does Essex change things?

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

Contact:
E-mail Personal: tristanvanbok...@i3d.net
E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
E-mail NOC: n...@i3d.net
Website: http://www.i3d.net Office:
Interactive 3D B.V.
Meent 93b
3011 JG Rotterdam
The Netherlands

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Rotterdam, The Netherlands. High density hosting – multiple fiber carriers 
in-house – Level3 PoP.

Interactive 3D (i3D.net) is a company registered in The Netherlands at Meent 
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We are ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing 
technology companies.
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From: Christian Berendt [mailto:bere...@b1-systems.de]
To: i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem [mailto:tristanvanbok...@i3d.nl]
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Sent: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:54:38 +0100
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

Hi Tristan.
  
  > So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we can
  > run nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and RabbitMQ
  > has a cluster ha setup as well but is this the way to go? I can't
  > find a clear answer to this. I am hoping one can shine some light on
  > this!
  
  I would prefer to use MySQL Cluster:
  http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/. You meant that with MySQL
  master-master?
  
  For RabbitMQ there are several ways to setup it:
  http://www.rabbitmq.com/ha.html.
  
  I think the customer site has to decide which HA setup they want use.
  All types have advantages and disadvantages.
  
  HTH, Christian.
  
  -- 
  Christian Berendt
  Linux / Unix Consultant & Developer
  Mail: bere...@b1-systems.de
  
  B1 Systems GmbH
  Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de
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Re: [Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-14 Thread Christian Berendt
Hi Tristan.

> So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we can
> run nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and RabbitMQ
> has a cluster ha setup as well but is this the way to go? I can't
> find a clear answer to this. I am hoping one can shine some light on
> this!

I would prefer to use MySQL Cluster:
http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/. You meant that with MySQL
master-master?

For RabbitMQ there are several ways to setup it:
http://www.rabbitmq.com/ha.html.

I think the customer site has to decide which HA setup they want use.
All types have advantages and disadvantages.

HTH, Christian.

-- 
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Linux / Unix Consultant & Developer
Mail: bere...@b1-systems.de

B1 Systems GmbH
Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de
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[Openstack] Howto Nova setup with HA?

2012-02-14 Thread i3D.net - Tristan van Bokkem
Hi Stackers,

It seems running Openstack components in High Availability hasn't been really a 
focus point lately, am I right?

The general docs don't really mention HA except for nova-network. So I did some 
resource on how to run Nova in a High Availability and have some questions 
about it:

The docs guides you on how to setup one cloud controller (running MySQL, 
nova-api, RabbitMQ etc.) and 2+n nodes for nova compute/network. But it does 
not mention how to make the cloud controller redundant. If the cloud controller 
brakes we have a serious problem!

So, we can run MySQL in master-master mode on multiple hosts, we can run 
nova-api on serveral hosts and load balance those and RabbitMQ has a cluster ha 
setup as well but is this the way to go? I can't find a clear answer to this. I 
am hoping one can shine some light on this!

Best regards,

Tristan van Bokkem
Datacenter Operations

Contact:
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E-mail Support: i...@i3d.net
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