Re: [Openstack] what is the meaning to alliance with VMWare?

2013-07-28 Thread Brian Schott
OpenStack is an open-source foundation with lots of potential competitors working together to build a common infrastructure.  As long as they abide by the contributor license agreement anyone is welcome to participate in our open-source community.  So, OpenStack doesn't have an alliance with

Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.

2013-07-26 Thread Brian Schott
following diskimage-builder that is part of TripleO, but haven't tried to use it yet. https://github.com/stackforge/diskimage-builder Brian On Jul 26, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Brian Schott wrote: When you bundle the image, make sure you

Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.

2013-07-25 Thread Brian Schott
When you bundle the image, make sure you remove the /var/lib/cloud directory. It contains lock files and a local cache from the first time it was run. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx

Re: [Openstack] How to create image for first instance (CentOS 6.4)

2013-07-18 Thread Brian Schott
Did this work for you? http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-image/content/centos-image.html - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Jul 18, 2013, at 5:28 AM, Jake G

Re: [Openstack] Remote access to the windows virtual machine

2013-05-31 Thread Brian Schott
Testing and not production workloads. p From: Openstack [mailto:openstack-bounces+ppouliot=microsoft@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Narayanan, Krishnaprasad Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:53 PM To: Brian Schott Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Remote access

Re: [Openstack] Remote access to the windows virtual machine

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Schott
For windows, you could add TCP port 3389 to your security group and enable remote desktop access in windows. The VNC console access in Horizon is really intended for administrative/management access rather than production usage. Brian - Brian

Re: [Openstack] Remote access to the windows virtual machine

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Schott
specify it in the security groups as this is already taken care in the Windows firewall. Thanks Krishnaprasad From: Brian Schott [mailto:brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2013 23:03 To: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re

Re: [Openstack] Customer Portal Security from Hackers

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Schott
The OpenStack customer-facing portal is called Horizon and is based on Django. https://github.com/openstack/horizon It's intended to be tailored and play nicely with other Django applications. That would be the first place to start. The rest depends on what kind of interface you want to

Re: [Openstack] Future of Launchpad OpenStack mailing list (this list)

2012-09-14 Thread Brian Schott
-partner [no description available] - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Sep 14, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.org wrote: Stefano Maffulli wrote

[Openstack] OpenStack SC12 BOF reviews

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Schott
- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 bof214 Reviews Details Submission: Bridging the Cloud-HPC Gap with OpenStack Contributors: Pai, Schott, Walters Key for the below column headings: hide Review Categories (higher is better): Goals

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-hpc] [HPC] Reminder monthly telecon Sep. 10

2012-09-10 Thread Brian Schott
OK. Standing by. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:02 PM, David Kang dk...@isi.edu wrote: Hello, We will use different webex host today

Re: [Openstack] Future of Launchpad OpenStack mailing list (this list)

2012-08-28 Thread Brian Schott
for the sake of optimization of having too many lists at the cost of community confusion is false optimization, you'll just get more non-dev traffic on the dev list if the choice is -dev or -operators. Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc

Re: [Openstack] Future of Launchpad OpenStack mailing list (this list)

2012-08-27 Thread Brian Schott
Stef, It's pretty obvious to me that there should be a general list at openst...@lists.openstack.org. The operators list is intended for operations people that host OpenStack deployments, not a general OpenStack user audience. I'd create the general openstack list, and setup a daily post to

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-24 Thread Brian Schott
I take it that the instance manager doesn't generate any kind of heartbeat, so whatever monitoring/archiving service we do should internally poll the status over MQ? - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-24 Thread Brian Schott
Yeah, but does that mean the instance is alive and billable :-)? I guess that counts! I thought they were only in response to external API/admin requests. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-23 Thread Brian Schott
Is there a document somewhere on what events the services emit? - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 23, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Monsyne Dragon wrote: This already

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-23 Thread Brian Schott
that Ken wrote allowed you to modify flavors. That would break billing unless you also track flavor modifications. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 23, 2012, at 1

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
mandating implementation technologies in the architecture. MongoDB is fine, but others here would prefer to make their own deployment choices. Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
a metering system in that can handle many billing configurations. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote: Dough

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
an instance was terminated by the user or just crashed. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 22, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Endre Karlson wrote: What is Dough then compared to what

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
The heart of nova-biling is built around accounts, resources, billing segments with a tariff and cost. Not clear at my first review where/how these costs are set. Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
? Could be modeled like oauth style transaction. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 22, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote: You can, but there are more billing

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
I captured some of our discussion in the etherpad, but feel free to extend. Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 22, 2012, at 9:32 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote

[Openstack] seeking brainstorm topic inputs: Bridging the HPC Gap using OpenStack

2012-03-27 Thread Brian Schott
://etherpad.openstack.org/HVHsTqOQGc Thanks, Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [Openstack] HPC with Openstack?

2011-12-02 Thread Brian Schott
I like it. I spent a lot of time at SC11 talking to HPC folks about OpenStack. Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Dec 2, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Oleg Gelbukh

Re: [Openstack] Proposal for Lorin Hochstein to join nova-core

2011-11-29 Thread Brian Schott
+1 - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Lorin has been a great contributor to Nova for a long time and has been

[Openstack] Supercomputing 2011 birds-of-a-feather session in Seattle this week?

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Schott
Our team will be out in Seattle this week at the Supercomputing conference. Anyone else planning to be there? Was looking for a BOF session but didn't see one. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443

Re: [Openstack] Supercomputing 2011 birds-of-a-feather session in Seattle this week?

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Schott
of the dative plural latin for nimbus, meaning to the clouds, but it gets lost in translation... - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Michael Kreeger

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack API Versioning Conventions

2011-10-11 Thread Brian Schott
OK, I get it now :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: Ceci

[Openstack] 55PB storage cloud hosted using Swift

2011-09-29 Thread Brian Schott
- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
users get short-form ID i-abcdefgh from the API service, the API service resolves the ambiguity based on other context information in the call (user-id, tag/name/label, state, ...). - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
of collision plummets. You have to authenticate the user credentials anyway, right? The probability that the same user will have an internal collision in his own pool of instances is very small. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
by REST-based authentication and would be available to the API service. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Eric Day wrote: On Mon, Jul

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
). Swift already does this (account/container/object), so we have a pretty good example to follow here. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [Openstack] SQLAlchemy migration number conflicts

2011-06-01 Thread Brian Schott
. You can't revert back to migration 11 because the new migration 12 is in the way. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: Another option is to have a migration reservation page in the wiki. It would contain a table with a sequence of numbers

Re: [Openstack] SQLAlchemy migration number conflicts

2011-06-01 Thread Brian Schott
That's not crazy, but I'd recommend a range of numbers 900-999? There have been cases where larger branches have multiple migrate files. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: This might be a little crazy, but how about numbering new

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack API, Reservation ID's and Num Instances ...

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Schott
Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com On May 23, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: On May 23, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Jorge Williams wrote: I don't see how that peculates anything. Treat the instance id as the reservation id on single instance creations

Re: [Openstack] distributed and heterogeneous schedulers

2011-04-13 Thread Brian Schott
Jay, :( I've brought this up before as well. The term metadata is used incorrectly to refer to custom key/value attributes of something instead of referring to data about the data (for instance, the type and length constraints of a data field). We could move the cpu_info, xpu_info, and

[Openstack] distributed and heterogeneous schedulers

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Schott
I'm trying to understand how best to implement our architecture-aware scheduler for Diablo: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/schedule-instances-on-heterogeneous-architectures Right now our scheduler is similar in approach to SimpleScheduler with a few extra filters on instances and

Re: [Openstack] Any progress on RequestCapabilities? Can I contribute?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Schott
? As long as we can inject a -t cg1.4xlarge at one end and have that get routed to a compute node with GPU hardware on the other end, we're not tied to the centralized database implementation. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Apr 4, 2011, at 7:32 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: On Apr 2, 2011, at 10

[Openstack] heterogeneous instance types

2011-04-01 Thread Brian Schott
: 2048 kB DirectMap4k:8168 kB DirectMap2M:134209536 kB $ uname -a Linux i-0007 2.6.35-22-virtual #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 23:19:29 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux --- Brian Schott USC Information

Re: [Openstack] heterogeneous instance types

2011-04-01 Thread Brian Schott
metal TFTP-boot image management system for the Tilera system because it doesn't currently support KVM or Xen. I could see some HPC folks interested in managing bare-metal XCAT or Perceus machines. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Brian

Re: [Openstack] installing Nova in the Cloud

2011-03-31 Thread Brian Schott
Do you have a public image? It would be handy for those of us that have infrastructure on EC2 to be able to spin up test servers. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Mar 31, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Chuck Short wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:57:03 -0700 Nelson Nahum nel...@zadarastorage.com

[Openstack] good overview briefings

2011-03-30 Thread Brian Schott
Are there any good overview slide briefings for OpenStack available? Doing some presentations to our sponsors and need a couple of good top-level overview slides. Thanks, Brian Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack Design Summit Registration Open

2011-03-24 Thread Brian Schott
Or blueprints. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.org wrote: Andy Smith wrote: Sorry if I am just way out of the loop here, but where do we submit talk proposals / sign up for a talk? You should contact Stephen Spector, who has been handling

Re: [Openstack] Instance IDs and Multiple Zones

2011-03-22 Thread Brian Schott
allocation, and ease of programming in general. Since UUIDs are unique and persistent, they make excellent Uniform Resource Names. The unique ability to generate a new UUID without a registration process allows for UUIDs to be one of the URNs with the lowest minting cost. Brian

Re: [Openstack] Instance IDs and Multiple Zones

2011-03-22 Thread Brian Schott
for us-east-1 was 0, and the recent change incremented it to 1. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Mar 22, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: The main issue that drove integers is backwards compatibility to the ec2_api and existing ec2 toolsets. People seemed very opposed

Re: [Openstack] GLANCE: How to deal with SQLAlchemy-migrate problems

2011-03-21 Thread Brian Schott
the previous example. I just added downgrade() because the example I followed didn't do that. We can be propagating bad habits. Realize, this is Nova, not Glance, so sorry if off topic. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Mar 21, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: Hi Brian, 1) Did you

Re: [Openstack] Availability of RHEL build of Bexar release of OpenStack Nova

2011-02-25 Thread Brian Schott
. We had to hack Python 2.6.6 onto our boxes as a temporary measure, because 2.6.0 is what ships. Brian --- Brian Schott, Project Leader USC Information Sciences Institute http://www.east.isi.edu/~bschott ph: 703-812-3722 fx: 703-812-3712 On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:55 PM, John Purrier wrote

Re: [Openstack] Instances lost after reboot

2011-02-23 Thread Brian Schott
How did you install and launch OpenStack? The instances are stored in a sqllite or mysql table depending on how things are configured. Brian Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:53 PM, George Argyrides wrote: Why do i lose instances after reboot? How can they remain

Re: [Openstack] Steps that can help stabilize Nova's trunk

2011-02-17 Thread Brian Schott
should strive to achieve before submitting a branch for review. That means you might win the booby prize and hit python_migrate bug totally unrelated to your patch. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Soren Hansen wrote: One other thing I forgot to point out

Re: [Openstack] Steps that can help stabilize Nova's trunk

2011-02-17 Thread Brian Schott
; run_test.sh -N to work. How about some automation to Score your Branch? Do that BEFORE a branch gets proposed for review. Encourage committers to post their branch score in the bug. At least we when see what is broken. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Soren Hansen

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-10 Thread Brian Schott
these through instance_types. What you describe is more flexible, but I wonder if for EC2 api we could stretch the -t flag. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: Does anyone have any thoughts/objections on the blueprint I posted for allowing

[Openstack] Fwd: Pondering multi-tenant needs in nova.

2011-02-07 Thread Brian Schott
that the functionality of projects is what is required. So what is the limitation? Begin forwarded message: From: Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com Date: February 6, 2011 6:09:02 PM EST To: Sandy Walsh sandy.wa...@rackspace.com Cc: Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com, John Purrier j...@openstack.org