Re: Specify IP addr to VM in CS

It also has to be in the range of the IPs that you defined for your guest networks. Thank you, Matt On Mar 18, 2013, at 9:27 PM, "Sailaja Mada" wrote: > Hi, > > http://download.cloud.com/releases/3.0.0/api_3.0.0/root_admin/deployVirtualMachine.html > . > > ipaddress is the optional param

Re: diskless boot

Thin or thick provisioned? On what type of file system? Thank you, Matt On Mar 18, 2013, at 9:47 PM, "Donal Lafferty" wrote: > Out of interest, how much space does an unused 1 Gig disk take up on a > hypervisor? > > DL > >> -Original Message- >> From: Bjoern Teipel [mailto:bjoern.t

Re: Need F5 to depoy multiple management node?

You can also use HAProxy, a free software one. http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ Matt On 3/14/13 9:02 PM, "Jerry Jiang" wrote: >Hello All, > > > >I have known CS support to deploy multiple management node to bring into >workload balance functions. > > > >In this case, do we need to buy a load-balanc

Re: vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)

ight, Matt On 3/14/13 12:39 PM, "Francois Gaudreault" wrote: >I guess you are talking about the "VMFS" choice in the menu since the >only options for primary storage and VMware are NFS and VMFS :) > >On 2013-03-13 9:13 PM, Mathias Mullins wrote: >> Francoi

Re: What's everyone using for primary storage?

Hey Kirk, Majority of our customers are using shared storage. It's actually a very low percentage that are using Local storage because it basically negates all high Availability and eliminates a lot of the useful features in CloudStack. Local storage is usually what I refer to as "Use it and Fo

Re: Unable to start Instance

CK, Make sure that your GHz on the offering on the CPU is not greater than the CPU speed on the systems. but Suresh is right, something is saying that there is a capacity allocation issue. Thank you, Matt On Mar 14, 2013, at 6:35 AM, "Suresh Sadhu" mailto:suresh.sa...@citrix.com>> wrote: As

Re: vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)

Francois, If the ESX servers can attach to it for primary storage, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work with the PreSetup driver for Primary. Sounds totally feasible. Thank you, Matt On Mar 13, 2013, at 10:44 AM, "Francois Gaudreault" wrote: > Hi List :) > > Anyone has experience with settin

Re: what are folks using for replication?

Hi John, So in a lot of the installations that we have worked with, we are seeing a lot of work with DRBD (Active/Standby, Active/Active w/Pacemaker). So far it's been one of the better solutions that we have seen installations stable with. I think a lot of people would like to see this functiona

CloudStack in the News

All, Robert van der Meulen was kind enough to share this with us on the marketing mailing list, and personally I believe that it is important enough to see across the lists so that you can share with others across your organizations, friends, colleagues, blogs, twitters, etc… This is great expo

Re: Change instance or compute offering core count after instances are built?

Yes Kirk, You just need to stop the instance, then do the "Change Service" button and change to a different service offering with different CPU and Memory. May be a different CPU, a different memory or both. Once that's complete, restart your VM. Hot-add is being worked on for future release.

Re: XenServer and VMWare Cluster, same Zone/Pod

ince there is no real benefit to >duplicate or add complexity to your network infrastructure because you >have 2 different hypervisor types. XenServer can use VLANs, so do >VMware, so why not use the same ;) > >Interesting discussion :) > >Francois > >On 2013-03-04 2:53 PM,

Re: XenServer and VMWare Cluster, same Zone/Pod

st be a little too picky on terms tho :P > > >On 2013-03-04 2:26 PM, Ahmad Emneina wrote: >> +1 to separate zones. thats def. the best practice we preach. >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Mathias Mullins >>>> wrote: >>> While you can d

Re: XenServer and VMWare Cluster, same Zone/Pod

While you can do it as both Francois and Geoff have said. I can tell you that our "Best Practice" that we implement with is that they be separate zones to avoid as many of problems and complex configurations as possible. Matt Mullins CloudPlatform Implementation Engineer Worldwide Cloud Services ­

Re: Change in Management Network Gateway

t;On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mathias Mullins >> wrote: > >> Hello all, need a little help. >> >> Was setting up a POD and put in the management network. I fat fingered >>the >> gateway and didn't realize it until after the Zone was launched.

Change in Management Network Gateway

Hello all, need a little help. Was setting up a POD and put in the management network. I fat fingered the gateway and didn't realize it until after the Zone was launched. Now the gateway is obviously wrong and the systemVMs can reach the management server. I changed the gateway in 'host_pod_ref

Re: management server unable to connect to db

Seif, The password being encrypted isn't necessarily a problem. Is your DB and Management installed on the same server, or separate servers? Thank you, Matt Mullins Cloud Platforms Implementation Engineer Worldwide Cloud Services mathias.mull...@citrix.com +1 (

Re: Issues when vCenter becomes unavailable

Andreas, The open source community doesn't support the Citrix version 3.0.6. You need to report this via your Citrix Support contract. Sounds like this could be a bug. Community - this could be a possible issue in 4.0.0 / 4.0.1. I don't know if this test case has been explored. Thanks, Matt Mu

Re: [Discuss]Apache wedbsite redesign

David/Chirdeep, I think Donny's got the right idea though. I think the mission definitely needs to be highlights, but other items that are maybe usually smaller need more attention to really engage. I loved the fact of "Contributing for Non-commiters" and "events and meetups" Being a non-code

Re: [Discuss]Apache wedbsite redesign

oes not > know what CS does, seeing alerts makes it seem like CS has lots of trouble. > > Thanks > ilya > > -Original Message- > From: Mathias Mullins [mailto:mathias.mull...@citrix.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:52 PM > To: cloudstac

Re: [Discuss]Apache wedbsite redesign

+1 Sonny, I really like the concept. I like you integrated the dashboard in and made me thing about how that by maybe reusing some of the icon with the sections as well it could really help tie the project site into the product. That started making me wonder if the dashboard framework would ac

Re: customising the ROOT disk

true. you can do that if you have LVM or Volume manager in windows. But you have to be careful. If that volume gets deleted out from under the VM, your VM is pretty much dead. Thank you, Matt On Feb 15, 2013, at 3:38 PM, "Thomas Joseph" mailto:thomas.jo...@gmail.com>> wrote: From storage tab

Re: customising the ROOT disk

What a lot of people do Nux is to create the template with a smaller disk. After the first template is created, expand the original running VM, and then create a second VM, and so on. I know one person that has a CentOS with a 9 (7Gb Root/2GB SWAP), 18GB, and 27GB. And nothing except the Root vo

RE: launch console proxy Vm

Caleb, Take the database ID of the CPVM v-XX-VM and run the following: Update vm_instance set status = stopped where id = XX; That will change it to stopped in the UI under the infrastructure tab. Do a restart and it should recreate the VM. Thanks, Matt -Original Message- From: Cale

Re: [DOCS] Update on translation, Help needed.

Sebastien, Just as a point, can we change the "Runbook" to "Quick Install Guide" to make it easier for people to understand what the use is? I don't think people wanting to come in and quickly get started are going to understand to look to the term Runbook to help get them going, when it's an ind

Re: Unable to Add XS host to CloudPlatform

Sandip, Please do not use the CloudStack-Users and CloudStack-Dev e-mail lists for Citrix Supported CloudPlatform deployments. Those are for OpenSource support only. I'll e-mail you the internal groups. Matt Mullins CloudPlatform Implementation Engineer Worldwide Cloud Services – Citrix System

Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

>Is "Run Book" really the right title? I guess when I started reading it as >a "run book" I was thinking about daily operations and supportability of >the setup, care and feeding and running it. (Something I'm trying to >write) This honestly seems to be more of a Quick Start Guide. I think the >Qui

Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

David, Do you want to take it Multi-hypervisor? Thanks, Matt On 1/29/13 11:54 AM, "David Nalley" wrote: >On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Outback Dingo >wrote: >> well, mostly the problem with the runbook is it is very kvm specific, >>ill >> look at it and see if i can assimilate it to XC

Re: social network of our community

Sebastien, This is a really neat blog, this is really interesting information. Thank you for sharing. Matt Mullins On 1/22/13 4:02 AM, "Sebastien Goasguen" wrote: >I used the mailing lists archived. Grouped things by threads and checked >who participated in the thread. >Everytime two people a

Re: Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

Hi nux, Did you first disable the zone so that one you delete the system VMs then they won't respawn? Also Pranav is correct that you will need to delete the physical network under Zone -> physical network tab. But that can only be done when the virtual routers, guest, and public networks are a

Re: Router problem

ables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT >>>> iptables -F INPUT >>>> iptables -F OUTPUT >>>> iptables -F FORWARD >>>> iptables -F POSTROUTING -t nat >>>> iptables -F PREROUTING -t nat >>>> >>>> After this and

Re: Router problem

Aleksey, Have you checked the firewall rules on the Virtual Router to see if you are allowing internet traffic? Thanks, Matt Mullins On 1/15/13 5:02 AM, "Aleksey Samarin" wrote: >Hello everybody! > >I have a wierd problem with virtual router, after create, guest network >works fine but gate

Re: best supported hypervisor + SDN

I believe SDN is form the client to the Virtual Router or VPC so it should be hypervisor agnostic feature. One of the developers may correct me here if needed. Matt On Jan 9, 2013, at 10:36 PM, "Nux!" wrote: > On 10.01.2013 00:34, Nux! wrote: >> Hello, >> >> No flame intended, what's the b

Re: best supported hypervisor

Nux, What your use case? Are you trying a pay for hypervisor, or OpenSource? What are the top 5 features you are looking for? That makes a difference in the question. Matt On Jan 9, 2013, at 7:34 PM, "Nux!" wrote: > Hello, > > No flame intended, what's the best supported hypervisor for us

Re: consoleproxy.url.domain not updating

Rob, Did you populate your DNS server with all of the A records for each IP in your range? Information is in this document. http://docs.cloudstack.org/Knowledge_Base/Replacing_realhostip.com_with_your_own_domain Thanks, Matt On Dec 31, 2012, at 9:01 AM, "Robert Booth" mailto:robert.bo...@tre

Re: performance testing in CS

Jerry, Since the cloud is not directly attached to the applications I think it would work fine for performance testing environment. The key factor that you need to be aware of us that your management server should not reside in your performance testing area, and your infrastructure needs to be

Re: [VOTE] Enforcing UUID string in API query

-1 - Agree with Will on this. Matt Mullins On 12/27/12 3:45 PM, "Will Chan" wrote: >-1 > >You will end up breaking anyone that has written any scripts/plugins/apps >on top of pre 3.x CS. Since UUID was introduced in 3.0, you should only >accept the following: > >- All first class objects

Re: Can not find systemvmiso

Hey Isaac, Refer to section 4.5.7 of the install guide for the template. http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.0-i ncubating/html/Installation_Guide/management-server-install-flow.html#prepa re-system-vm-template Command for XenServer #/usr/lib64/cloud/common/sc

Re: ssvm completely messed up

Mark, Refer to section 4.5.7 of the install guide for the template. http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.0-i ncubating/html/Installation_Guide/management-server-install-flow.html#prepa re-system-vm-template Command for XenServer:

Re: ssvm completely messed up

Mark, The output of the v-9-VM is actually your console Proxy. S is your SSVM. Just so you know. The eth0 is the link-local interface. You should have that regardless, and like you said it won't affect your routing. You won't be able to use that interface to connect to unless your management se

Re: cloudstack features wish-list

Make sure to add Search the feature requests out on the apache Jira. If they are not listed (which both of probably are) then open a new feature request. Thanks, Matt On Dec 12, 2012, at 2:14 PM, "Ioan Eugen Stan" wrote: > Hello, > > Disclaimer: I'm rather new to cloudstack. > > I think som

Re: Add a new vmware-based host into CS

wrote: >Thanks Matt, > >Not sure if the dev team have a plan to implement this functionality. > >-- Jerry > >- Original Message - >From: "Mathias Mullins" >To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org >Sent: 星期三, 2012年 12 月 12日 下午 5:40:37 >Subject: Re

Re: Add a new vmware-based host into CS

Hi jerry, I do not believe it has that functionality. It should be pre added to VC before adding to CS. Matt On 12/12/12 10:30 AM, "jerry jiang. 蒋维" wrote: >Hello Matt, > >Can CS invoke vCenter API to add host into vCenter domain? > >蒋维 > >- Origina

Re: Add a new vmware-based host into CS

Jerry, You have to have the host registered in vCenter. You can't have nodes in CS without vCenter. Matt Mullins On 12/12/12 9:38 AM, "jerry jiang. 蒋维" wrote: >Hello, > >When I try to add a new vmware-based host into CS, I found I have to >login to vCenter, >and add the target host manually

Re: VMware templates

Jonathan, Thinking over the CloudStack as a whole, I'm not sure that would be such a good idea. Since secondary storage is shared across a zone, and you could have separate PODs for different hypervisors to create a mixture you wouldn't be able to utilize VMware template storage for XenServer, KV

Re: Multiple IP's to one instance

Why would we not log the request with a feature request bug in the apache jira? Since the option is there, would it be better to be able to allow developers to pull from that documented piece? I'm new to Apache too so just wondering. On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:39 PM, "Chip Childers" wrote: > On

Re: First time Cloudstack 4 installation admin login/password incorrect. Installation Document question.

Make sure you open a Doc Bug for the issues your experiencing please. Helps all of us in the future. Thanks, Matt On Nov 21, 2012, at 6:45 PM, "Ian Jacobs" wrote: > I can try, but I am new in this area. My way of doing the installation may > be off. But here are some of my notes. > > > 4

Re: Hybrid Basic/Advanced Zone

Johann, What are you trying to accomplish with this hybrid configuration? What's the use case. Matt Mullins CloudPlatform Implementation Engineer Worldwide Cloud Services ­ Citrix System, Inc. +1 (407) 920-1107 ­ Office/Cell Phone matt.mull...@citrix.com On 11/15/12 10:35 AM, "Johann Hoehn"

Re: Regarding Installation Error

Saikiran, Have you followed the complete installation steps in the installation guide? http://download.cloud.com/releases/3.0.0/CloudStack3.0.0-3.0.2QuickInstallG uide.pdf There are several steps that have to be completed before you can run the cloud-setup-management command. Matt Mullins On

Re: vmware HA

VMware allows for the ability to enable HA on every node individually on whether it will participate in the HA fail-over in the cluster. So by default CloudStack wouldn't be able to turn it on at the cluster level automatically without having to configure it down to each node in the cluster. So

Re: Splunk

ll" wrote: >What exactly do you mean log parsing? We have our logs going in to >splunk, which wasn't any different than adding any other log in to >splunk. Do you mean setting up alerts around the logs? > > >On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Mathias Mullins > wrote: >

Splunk

We are trying to setup Splunk to do log parsing for a cluster of 4 management servers. Does someone have some experience on this or some script settings that have been effective with them? Thanks, Matt

Re: question about CVE-2012-4501 and version 3.0.2

Bryan, All version releases are current open to the vulnerability. Please make sure to run the SQL statements listed in the notice. Matt Mullins CloudPlatform Implementation Engineer Worldwide Cloud Services ­ Citrix System, Inc. +1 (407) 920-1107 ­ Office/Cell Phone matt.mull...@citrix.com

Re: API and Secret key

@Nquyen If you want to try out CloudPortal it's on Citrix website, but it's not available as open source. http://deliver.citrix.com/cloudportal.html Matt On 10/3/12 7:22 AM, "Nguyen Anh Tu" wrote: >@Desmond Tan: Hi man, is CloudPortal open-source? > >2012/10/3 Desmond Tan > >> Hi all, >>

Re: VMware API calls

Marcos, Another suggestion with firefox would be FireBug. Gives a good view into the calls that are being generated. Also the 4.0 branch that Murali was suggesting I believe is the root for CloudPlatform 3.0.4. Thanks Matt On Sep 14, 2012, at 2:46 AM, "Marcos Ortiz" wrote: > Hi All, > >