NetApp plugin wins Best of Synergy 2014 award in cloud track

2014-05-15 Thread La Motta, David
I wanted to give a shout-out to Chris Suich, who was a key player in the team that worked on the NetApp plugin--aka Virtual Storage Console for Apache CloudStack. Many of you know Chris personally from the CloudStack Collab. Conferences and also from his participation on this dev list. The

Slideshare link to my presentation

2014-04-17 Thread La Motta, David
Hey everybody, for those of you who are interested, here is the link to my presentation from CCCNA14: http://www.slideshare.net/dlamotta/bringing-netapp-data-ontap-apache-cloudstack-together David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer | Integrated Infrastructures NetApp Office: 1.919.476.5042

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

2014-04-16 Thread La Motta, David
: Hi, David Did u see anything wrong within kvm agent log file? Thanks, Yitao 2014-04-16 22:59 GMT+08:00 La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.com: Hey everybody, I am trying to deploy a VM instance in KVM using NFS for primary storage (on 4.3). Unfortunately, this is the exception I am

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

2014-04-16 Thread La Motta, David
file? Thanks, Yitao 2014-04-16 22:59 GMT+08:00 La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.com: Hey everybody, I am trying to deploy a VM instance in KVM using NFS for primary storage (on 4.3). Unfortunately, this is the exception I am getting: 2014-04-16 06:44:53,128 DEBUG

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

2014-04-16 Thread La Motta, David
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Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

2014-04-16 Thread La Motta, David
at 10:07 AM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: Hi Jang, where exactly is that log file? :-) David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer | Integrated Infrastructures NetApp Office: 1.919.476.5042 Mobile: 1.919.413.5600 On 4/16/14, 11:25 AM, Yitao Jiang willier

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

2014-04-16 Thread La Motta, David
the UI form? On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:11 AM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: Nevermind, I was looking in the wrong place. [root@rhelkvm1 log]# cd cloudstack/ [root@rhelkvm1 cloudstack]# ll total 4 drwxrwx---. 2 root root 4096 Apr 16 06:44 agent [root@rhelkvm1 cloudstack

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New PMC member: Animesh Chaturvedi

2013-10-21 Thread La Motta, David
Awesome! Congrats, Animesh. David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp Direct: 1.919.476.5042 On 10/21/13 3:01 PM, Chip Childers chipchild...@apache.org wrote: The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache CloudStack has asked Animesh Chaturvedi to join the

AWS API in CloudStack

2013-10-14 Thread La Motta, David
Hello, folks. In reading this article (), I found this: Interestingly, Apache CloudStack will follow a dual-API strategy. First, the project will maintain compatibility with the familiar AWS API, which allows users to leverage tool sets built to work with AWS. Love it or hate it, the AWS API is

Re: AWS API in CloudStack

2013-10-14 Thread La Motta, David
that ec2 tools can be used transparently against a cloudstack cloud running the aws mapping (separate package to install on mgt server). Its probably not fully compliant so be warned. -Sebastien On 14 Oct 2013, at 20:25, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: http

Lines of contributed code

2013-09-26 Thread La Motta, David
Hey everybody, as an advocate of CloudStack for NetApp and our customers, I am often times asked to compare and contrast ACS with OpenStack. One interesting metric that I am looking at right now is that OpenStack has about 1.7 million lines of contributed code. How many can we say about

Re: Lines of contributed code

2013-09-26 Thread La Motta, David
PM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.comwrote: Hey everybody, as an advocate of CloudStack for NetApp and our customers, I am often times asked to compare and contrast ACS with OpenStack. One interesting metric that I am looking at right now is that OpenStack has about 1.7 million lines

Hotels for CCC Amsterdam

2013-09-18 Thread La Motta, David
Hey everybody, I think I saw something about hotels not being decided for CCC in Amsterdam this November. Has that been squared out? I know this is not a dev question per seŠ but hey, what better group to ask that question but this one? :-) Thanks! -- David La Motta Technical Marketing

CloudStack distros

2013-08-27 Thread La Motta, David
Hi all, was curious to know if there are other flavors of CloudStack besides CloudPlatform. Anybody have some insight in that space? Thanks. David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp Direct: 1.919.476.5042

Re: CloudStack distros

2013-08-27 Thread La Motta, David
am aware of. Also I believe once ACS 4.2 is released, ACS and CCP will be the same code base. I could be wrong. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:24 PM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.comwrote: Hi all, was curious to know if there are other flavors of CloudStack besides CloudPlatform. Anybody

Re: 4.3 compatibility matrix

2013-08-15 Thread La Motta, David
Ok, thanks. -- David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp david.lamo...@netapp.com On 8/15/13 2:29 PM, Chiradeep Vittal chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com wrote: Probably closer to feature freeze (9/30) On 8/14/13 8:02 AM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.com

4.3 compatibility matrix

2013-08-14 Thread La Motta, David
Can anybody provide any insight as to when 4.3 is going to be added to the compatibility matrix? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/4.2+Compatiblity+Mat rix Thanks. -- David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp david.lamo...@netapp.com

404 on some .css files

2013-08-14 Thread La Motta, David
Not sure if anybody has seen this, but I just noticed today after my nonoss build ;-) Could've been there before, though. GET http://nimbus:8080/client/api?command=listCapabilitiesresponse=jsonsessio nkey=DGLyurBUgoy5E6VuOTdDdxIIV5o%3D_=1376494740700 401 (Unauthorized) jquery.js:7829

Could not find corresponding resource manager for VMware

2013-08-13 Thread La Motta, David
Hey everybody, I am trying to add a VMware cluster to CS 4.2 (I am using commit 7eb3d49e8e0a9b247ea974cad744803420982eda, which is several weeks old) and I am getting the error in the subject: INFO [cloud.api.ApiServer] (413440874@qtp-1461551141-41:) Could not find corresponding resource

Re: Could not find corresponding resource manager for VMware

2013-08-13 Thread La Motta, David
build with -Dnonoss? --Alex -Original Message- From: La Motta, David [mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 1:31 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Could not find corresponding resource manager for VMware Hey everybody, I am trying to add a VMware

Re: Specifying Storage Provider for Primary Storage Creation/Registration

2013-07-16 Thread La Motta, David
think the requirements of such a facility would be? Thanks, -John On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:40 AM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.commailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: Mike, Edison, et al., this brings up the question of what UI will be displayed when the user selects a storage vendor's

Re: Specifying Storage Provider for Primary Storage Creation/Registration

2013-07-16 Thread La Motta, David
operation (read, write, clone, copy, delink, destroy, etc) allowing each physical storage operations to leverage the additional configuration information. What deeper layers are you envisioning will need the property bag? Thanks, -John On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:29 AM, La Motta, David david.lamo

Re: Expanding a volume on a SAN

2013-07-11 Thread La Motta, David
Mike, make sure you do the rescan on the master host as well on all the slaves in the pool, especially if you are doing a live resize (i.e., not detaching the iSCSI SR from XenServer). Just issuing the rescan on the master will not propagate the info down to the slaves. We hit that problem

Hack day tomorrow

2013-06-22 Thread La Motta, David
Hey everybody, we're looking forward hanging out with some of you tomorrow in Santa Clara. I am stuck in an un-ending layover in Dallas on my way to CCC13, so I thought I'd share some of our thoughts for the hackathon tomorrow: - registerVirtualMachine REST API: this can be used to flip the

Re: enableStorageMaintenance

2013-06-18 Thread La Motta, David
Engineer Citrix Solutions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.commailto:dlamo...@netapp.com On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Edison Su edison...@citrix.commailto:edison...@citrix.com wrote: -Original Message- From: La Motta, David [mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.comhttp://netapp.com] Sent: Friday

Re: enableStorageMaintenance

2013-06-18 Thread La Motta, David
, 2013 at 01:32:40PM +, La Motta, David wrote: Thanks, Edison. With the job ID, you can periodically check the job status by making calls to queryAsyncJobResult command. My question remains, then: can the API introduce callbacks so we don't have to polling, especially on long running

Re: enableStorageMaintenance

2013-06-17 Thread La Motta, David
Along the same lines… is there a REST command coming in 4.2 to quiesce one or multiple virtual machines? David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer Citrix Solutions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.commailto:dlamo...@netapp.com On Jun 14, 2013, at 10:53 AM, La Motta, David david.lamo

Re: enableStorageMaintenance

2013-06-17 Thread La Motta, David
edison...@citrix.commailto:edison...@citrix.com wrote: -Original Message- From: La Motta, David [mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.comhttp://netapp.com] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:37 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: enableStorageMaintenance Along

enableStorageMaintenance

2013-06-14 Thread La Motta, David
…works great for putting down the storage into maintenance mode (looking forward seeing this for secondary storage as well!). Now the question is, after I've run it… how do I know when it is done so I can operate on the volume? Poll using updateStoragePool and query the state for Maintenance?

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread La Motta, David
! David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer Citrix Solutions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.commailto:dlamo...@netapp.com On Jun 12, 2013, at 10:57 AM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.commailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: Nope! That's the one I was looking for. Too close

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread La Motta, David
*almost* anything we want in cloudstack, but it requires some developer time. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:49 AM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.commailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: Looking at this in more detail, that's not going to do it. If we have to create a template and call

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread La Motta, David
+, La Motta, David wrote: Cool, we'll take a look at CreateCommand. I like your suggestion to tweak the execute method to accomplish this. We are literally getting our feet wet at this point, and have some ideas that we are looking to implement in a NetApp plugin to CS. Hopefully we'll get

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-13 Thread La Motta, David
, or not... On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 04:17:10PM +, La Motta, David wrote: Cool, we'll take a look at CreateCommand. I like your suggestion to tweak the execute method to accomplish this. We are literally getting our feet wet at this point, and have some ideas that we are looking to implement in a NetApp

Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-12 Thread La Motta, David
Hey everybody, I've got a couple of questions on cloning VM instances in CloudStack. I haven't seen anything in the UI that would allow me to create, say, 1000 clones of a VM instance in a given cluster. Is there such functionality in CloudStack? If there isn't, can I drop to the hypervisor

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-12 Thread La Motta, David
...@sungard.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:35:18PM +, La Motta, David wrote: Hey everybody, I've got a couple of questions on cloning VM instances in CloudStack. I haven't seen anything in the UI that would allow me to create, say, 1000 clones of a VM instance in a given cluster

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

2013-06-12 Thread La Motta, David
chip.child...@sungard.commailto:chip.child...@sungard.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:49:42PM +, La Motta, David wrote: Ok, thanks. So it is doable. The question now being how fast this process will be, since the VM creation will ultimately be done on the hypervisor. What is the API

migrateVirtualMachine

2013-06-07 Thread La Motta, David
Anybody know a bit more in depth what that API call really does? From the API docs it Attempts Migration of a VM to a different host or Root volume of the vm to a different storage pool. Does this mean if the VM is on XenServer and I want to move it to vShpere, it does VHD to OVA (VMDK?)

4.2 snapshot: Instance creation fails

2013-05-31 Thread La Motta, David
I'm starting a new thread, since the secondary storage woes seem to be resolved, the culprit being secstorage.allowed.internal.sites and lack of MS / XS / SSVM reboots. The ISOs have been downloaded, which means the SSVM is alive and kicking. …however, when I attempt to create an instance, it

Re: 4.2 snapshot: Instance creation fails

2013-05-31 Thread La Motta, David
NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.commailto:dlamo...@netapp.com On May 31, 2013, at 1:49 PM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.commailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: I'm starting a new thread, since the secondary storage woes seem to be resolved, the culprit being

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

2013-05-31 Thread La Motta, David
to the ssvm's firewall, to allow for that traffic. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:34 PM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.commailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: Nothing in cloud.out--I have some old messages which don't make me feel that great about things, but a tail -f on the file keeps

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

2013-05-31 Thread La Motta, David
...@apache.orgmailto:t...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:34:00PM +, La Motta, David wrote: Nothing in cloud.out--I have some old messages which don't make me feel that great about things, but a tail -f on the file keeps it static when I attempt to add the ISO. The old messages are: 18:47

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

2013-05-30 Thread La Motta, David
serer. -Original Message- From: La Motta, David [mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.comhttp://netapp.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:28 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go So my 4.2 instance is up and running, system

Re: vhd-util missing in 4.2 snapshot?

2013-05-30 Thread La Motta, David
NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.commailto:dlamo...@netapp.com On May 30, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Chip Childers chip.child...@sungard.commailto:chip.child...@sungard.com wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:33:22PM +, La Motta, David wrote: Cool, thanks. I saw a reference to a NetApp plugin

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

2013-05-30 Thread La Motta, David
, Nitin Mehta nitin.me...@citrix.commailto:nitin.me...@citrix.com wrote: David - Can you please follow https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/ssvm-troubleshooting.html to troubleshoot the issues ? Let us know how it goes ? On 30/05/13 7:02 PM, La Motta, David david.lamo

4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

2013-05-29 Thread La Motta, David
So my 4.2 instance is up and running, system VMs are running (secondary storage VM and console proxy VM), primary and secondary storage are up on NFS… all things considered and at a glance, things look good. However, when I try to add an ISO so that I can provision a VM, I am getting: WARN

vhd-util missing in 4.2 snapshot?

2013-05-28 Thread La Motta, David
Hey everybody, I downloaded a 4.2 snapshot today and have been trying to get it going without much luck. I got an error about systemvm.iso not being found, so I manually copied it to the problem spot from a 4.1 tree I have laying around. However, vhd-util is not found, and I am getting a

Re: vhd-util missing in 4.2 snapshot?

2013-05-28 Thread La Motta, David
...@netapp.commailto:dlamo...@netapp.com On May 28, 2013, at 4:20 PM, La Motta, David david.lamo...@netapp.commailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com wrote: Hey everybody, I downloaded a 4.2 snapshot today and have been trying to get it going without much luck. I got an error about systemvm.iso not being found