Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-28 Thread Remi Bergsma
: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward Hi all, Since CloudStack 4.4 the implementation of HA in CloudStack was changed to use the XenHA feature of XenServer. As of 4.4, it is expected to have XenHA enabled for the pool (not for the VMs!) and so XenServer will be the one to elect a new

RE: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Turner
Message- From: Remi Bergsma [mailto:r...@remi.nl] Sent: 28 May 2015 12:53 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward Hi Stephen, Thanks for getting in touch! First of all, good to hear we agree that this change wasn't done in a nice way. For now

RE: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-27 Thread Stephen Turner
@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward Hi all, Since CloudStack 4.4 the implementation of HA in CloudStack was changed to use the XenHA feature of XenServer. As of 4.4, it is expected to have XenHA enabled for the pool (not for the VMs!) and so XenServer

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread Remi Bergsma
: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward Hi all, Thanks for pointing me to the proposal, Koushik. Too bad no one responded to such a major change. When I put my Operations hat on, I see several issues. First of all, there was no mention of this change in the release notes. Not as a new feature

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread Tim Mackey
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Remi Bergsma [mailto:r...@remi.nl] Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Mai 2015 12:36 An: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward Hi all, Thanks for pointing me to the proposal, Koushik. Too bad no one responded

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread Koushik Das
The below is the proposal for switching to XenServer HA. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cloudstack-dev/201403.mbox/%3c83f77ff1bd50194ab65afa5479d082a71e4...@sjcpex01cl02.citrite.net%3E On 04-May-2015, at 9:03 PM, Tim Mackey tmac...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for starting this thread

AW: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread S . Brüseke - proIO GmbH
2015 08:12 An: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward The below is the proposal for switching to XenServer HA. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cloudstack-dev/201403.mbox/%3c83f77ff1bd50194ab65afa5479d082a71e4...@sjcpex01cl02.citrite.net%3E

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread Remi Bergsma
Hi all, Thanks for pointing me to the proposal, Koushik. Too bad no one responded to such a major change. When I put my Operations hat on, I see several issues. First of all, there was no mention of this change in the release notes. Not as a new feature, nor as a bug that was fixed. How do we

AW: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread S . Brüseke - proIO GmbH
more information on this? Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards, Swen Brüseke -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Remi Bergsma [mailto:r...@remi.nl] Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Mai 2015 12:36 An: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward Hi all

[DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-04 Thread Remi Bergsma
Hi all, Since CloudStack 4.4 the implementation of HA in CloudStack was changed to use the XenHA feature of XenServer. As of 4.4, it is expected to have XenHA enabled for the pool (not for the VMs!) and so XenServer will be the one to elect a new pool master, whereas CloudStack did it before.

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-04 Thread Tim Mackey
Thanks for starting this thread Remi. From my perspective the pros of simply enabling XenServer HA are: - automatic election of pool master in the event of hardware failure - automatic fencing of a host in the event of dom0 corruption - automatic fencing of a host in the event of heartbeat