[Openstack] Noob question about api client access

2012-06-24 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I have a shiny new install of openstack and from the controller node (the one with keystone, glance, horizon and all the nova pieces) I can run everything as I expect using the nova cli tools upload images boot instances manage the network, etc. I can also use the Horizon wed interface

[Openstack] Managing projects roles and quotas (Dashboard -vs- nova-manage)

2012-07-05 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I have a new Essex install on Ubuntu 12.04 and just starting to kick the tires. I would like to manage resource quotas for different projects/tenants but having created them in Dashboard nova-manage doesn't see them, though keystone does and I can join users to tenants with roles using

[Openstack] [Nova] resource free -vs- allocated utilization?

2012-07-11 Thread Jonathan Proulx
is there an easy way to see free -vs- allocated nova resources? for example that 300 of 1000 cpu cores are in use (and similar with memory and storage). Thanks, -Jon ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to :

Re: [Openstack] Networking issues in Essex

2012-07-12 Thread Jonathan Proulx
I've only deployed openstack for the first time a couple weeks ago, but FWIW... I had similar symptoms on my Essex test deployment (on Ubuntu 12.04) turned out my problem was taht while the br100 bridge was up and configured the underlying eth1 physical interface was down so the bits went

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] resource free -vs- allocated utilization?

2012-07-12 Thread Jonathan Proulx
, Jonathan Proulx j...@jonproulx.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Chris Behrens cbehr...@codestud.com wrote: Hi Jon, There's actually a review up right now proposing to add an OS API extension to be able to give some of this data: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9544/ that seems

[Openstack] [nova] Specifying Schedule Filters Per Request?

2012-07-21 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/admin/content/compute-options-reference.html states that the scheduler_default_filters option in nova.conf controls which filter class names to use for filtering hosts when not specified in the request. How can I specify what filters to

[Openstack] Ceph performance as volume image store?

2012-07-23 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I've been looking at Ceph as a storage back end. I'm running a research cluster and while people need to use it and want it 24x7 I don't need as many nines as a commercial customer facing service does so I think I'm OK with the current maturity level as far as that goes, but I have less

[Openstack] Instance stuck in deleting state with error

2012-07-30 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I have an instance that has been in this state for a couple days: | OS-EXT-STS:power_state | 0| | OS-EXT-STS:task_state | deleting| | OS-EXT-STS:vm_state | error

Re: [Openstack] Instance stuck in deleting state with error

2012-07-30 Thread Jonathan Proulx
:03 PM, Jonathan Proulx j...@jonproulx.com wrote: Hi All, I have an instance that has been in this state for a couple days: | OS-EXT-STS:power_state | 0| | OS-EXT-STS:task_state | deleting| | OS-EXT

Re: [Openstack] Instance stuck in deleting state with error

2012-07-30 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Thanks but I'm using KVM so not that bug...figures that's the part of my stack I left out. -Jon ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help :

Re: [Openstack] Instance stuck in deleting state with error

2012-08-01 Thread Jonathan Proulx
FYI the nova reset-state command exists on my Debian 6.0 workstations where python-novaclient is installed via pip (presumably the gets latest version from trunk?) it is not available on my Ubuntu 12.04 systems using standard Ubuntu repository versions (essex). -Jon On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:22

Re: [Openstack] Instance stuck in deleting state with error

2012-08-01 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Lorin Hochstein lo...@nimbisservices.com wrote: What's the use case for resetting an instance to the error state? Is the idea to do: nova reset-state instance nova delete instance That was my use case, though I ended up doing both in the database because I

Re: [Openstack] Instance stuck in deleting state with error

2012-08-02 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Lorin Hochstein lo...@nimbisservices.com wrote: I believe pip gets it from PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-novaclient/ Ah, I documented this internally and promptly forgot, this is where my version of python-novaclient with reset-state came from: sudo

[Openstack] issues with fixed_range blocking new instance creation?

2012-09-06 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, my stack stopped launching instances last night I've been chasing my tail for a while but I think it think's it's out of fixed IPs. the system is Essex as packages on Ubuntu 12.04 using FlatDHCP, with multihost and a fixed range or 10.0.0.0/16 --multi_host=True --public_interface=eth0

Re: [Openstack] issues with fixed_range blocking new instance creation?

2012-09-07 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya vishvana...@gmail.com wrote: fixed range is likely fine. I suspect you created your network with a 10.0.0.0/24 though. It might be a bit tricky to switch to a larger range now. You may have to create the rest of your fixed ips manually in the

[Openstack] After expanding fixed ip range instances no longer have network

2012-09-07 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, Running Essex on Ununtu 12.04 using multi-host FlatDHCP nova-networking I ran out of IPs on my fixed_ip range so I shut everything (instances, nova-network, nova-compute) down deleted the old network and recreated it with a smaller netmask. This seems to have almost worked. I can

Re: [Openstack] After expanding fixed ip range instances no longer have network

2012-09-07 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Proulx j...@jonproulx.com wrote: Can any one tell me what I've looked? I assumed stopping and restarting nova-network would restart dnsmasq since dnsmasq doesn't have it's own init script, but this seems not to be the case. dnsmasq is listening

Re: [Openstack] After expanding fixed ip range instances no longer have network

2012-09-07 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Jonathan Proulx wrote: :On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Proulx j...@jonproulx.com wrote: :dnsmasq is listening on an IP the system nolonger has, I'm sure I'll :find the answer ot this on my own soon enough but how does one :properly restart

Re: [Openstack] After expanding fixed ip range instances no longer have network

2012-09-07 Thread Jonathan Proulx
:restart nova-network : :Vish : :On Sep 7, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Proulx j...@jonproulx.com wrote: : : On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Proulx j...@jonproulx.com wrote: : : Can any one tell me what I've looked? : : I assumed stopping and restarting nova-network would restart dnsmasq

Re: [Openstack] Using EC2 through OpenStack

2012-10-02 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:19:45PM +0200, Michaël Van de Borne wrote: :Hi all, : :This might be obvious, but I can't find the answer. Is there a way to :control EC2 instances using OpenStack? OpenStack provides the same facility as EC2 but on your own hardware, so they don't really touch. Glance

[Openstack] Folsom nova-scheduler race condition?

2012-10-09 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, Looking for a sanity test before I file a bug. I very recently upgraded my install to Folsom (on top of Ubuntu 12.04/kvm). My scheduler settings in nova.conf are: scheduler_available_filters=nova.scheduler.filters.standard_filters

Re: [Openstack] Folsom nova-scheduler race condition?

2012-10-10 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Huang Zhiteng winsto...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but it seems Jonathan's filter list doesn't include RetryFilter, so it's possible that he ran into a race condition that RetryFilter targeted to solve. Yes, that was it exactly. Thank you for seeing the obvious

[Openstack] nova-volume - cinder troubles

2012-10-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I'm trying to get from nova-volume to cinder and seem to be tripping up near the end. I have ServerA running as the cloud controller (horizon, keystone, glance, rabbitmq, mysql, nova-api, etc...), ServerB was running nova-volume and is now running cinder. I got the DB created (on

Re: [Openstack] nova-volume - cinder troubles

2012-10-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 03:06:15PM -0400, Jonathan Proulx wrote: :Hi All, : :I'm trying to get from nova-volume to cinder and seem to be tripping :up near the end. : :I have ServerA running as the cloud controller (horizon, keystone, glance, :rabbitmq, mysql, nova-api, etc...), ServerB was running

[Openstack] Possible upgrade bug in nova-volume ( cinder)?

2012-10-24 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I'm seeing a bug due to my recent essex to folsom upgrade relating to LVM back volume storage, I'm not sure where it got introduced most likely either in nova-volume or in the Ubuntu cloud archive packaging...I only noticed it after transitioning from folsom-nova-volume to fosom-cinder

Re: [Openstack] Possible upgrade bug in nova-volume ( cinder)?

2012-10-24 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Proulx j...@jonproulx.com wrote: To fix this for me I can look up the volumes by ID in the database and then lvrename the logical volumes (I don't have too many and all on one volume server right now). That maybe the wrong answer as the database (both

Re: [Openstack] Using nova-volumes openstack LVM group for other pourposes

2012-10-24 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 08:56:26PM +0200, Daniel Vázquez wrote: :Hi here! : :Can we create and use news logical volumes for own/custom use(out of :openstack) on nova-volumes openstack LVM group, and use it beside :openstack operational? :IMO it's LVM and no problem, but it has openstack collateral

Re: [Openstack] Possible upgrade bug in nova-volume ( cinder)?

2012-10-24 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:01 PM, John Griffith john.griff...@solidfire.com wrote: Hey Jon, Couple of things going on, one is the volume naming (in progress here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/14615/). I'll take a closer look at some of the other issues you pointed out. Hi John, On this

Re: [Openstack] Using nova-volumes openstack LVM group for other pourposes

2012-10-25 Thread Jonathan Proulx
if I use nova pattern labeling via logical volumen creation : or via renaming label, I hope can switch the content of this custom : logical volument to use with openstack, an attach to a VM in future. : : : : 2012/10/24 Jonathan Proulx j...@csail.mit.edu: : On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 08:56:26PM +0200

Re: [Openstack] Possible upgrade bug in nova-volume ( cinder)?

2012-10-25 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:32 PM, John Griffith john.griff...@solidfire.com wrote: Hey Jon, Cool... Yeah, I had intended for that patch to be a stable/folsom patch but shouldn't have submitted it to master :( The real problem isn't just normalizing the lvm names, but also the

[Openstack] Special Zero Size root in Flavor, what exactly does it mean?

2012-10-27 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I know that specifying a zero size root volume in a flavor is special but what exactly does it mean. I'm writing up some documentation on flavors and realized I can't fully explain the default m1.tiny ... Thanks, -Jon ___ Mailing list:

[Openstack] Scheduler issues in folsom

2012-10-30 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I'm having what I consider serious issues with teh scheduler in Folsom. It seems to relate to the introdution of threading in the scheduler. For a number of local reason we prefer to have instances start on the compute node with the least amount of free RAM that is still enough to

Re: [Openstack] Scheduler issues in folsom

2012-10-31 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All While the RetryScheduler may not have been designed specifically to fix this issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1011852 suggests that it is meant to fix it, well if it is a scheduler race condition which is my suspicion. This is my current scheduler config which gives the failure

Re: [Openstack] Scheduler issues in folsom

2012-10-31 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Huang Zhiteng winsto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, If I understand correctly, that bug is about multiple scheduler There is only a single process, I was reading it as relating to include threads within a single process, but they should clearly be able to

Re: [Openstack] Scheduler issues in folsom

2012-11-01 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya vishvana...@gmail.comwrote: My patch here seems to fix the issue in the one scheduler case: https://github.com/vishvananda/nova/commit/2eaf796e60bd35319fe6add6dd04359546a21682 If you could give that a try on your scheduler node and see

[Openstack] How to I unconfuse my resource_tracker?

2012-11-06 Thread Jonathan Proulx
My compute nodes are confused about how many resource they have free. I suspect this is largely due to RPC timeouts I was experiencing due to a misconfiguration compounded by high load and a scheduler bug, but not so much interested in how it got this way as to how to clean it up. for example on

[Openstack] [Nova] used_max -vs used_now resources?

2012-11-25 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I'm trying to make sense of 'nova-manage service describe_resource' output from Folsom running on Ubuntu 12.04 with KVM back end. I'd thought used_now accounted for running resource use and used_max included reservations that had not yet been instantiated. That assumption seemed to

Re: [Openstack] How to deploy openstack automatically in your env.

2012-12-03 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:21:54PM +0800, Lei Zhang wrote: :It is a wired thing that the openstack is a python project. But many tools :for it are build on ruby? Puppet (http://puppetlabs.com/) and Chef (http://www.opscode.com/chef), the main players in configuration management are both written

[Openstack] Help, erroneous resource tracker preventing instances from starting

2013-01-07 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I have a growing problem in which compute nodes are puzzlingly over reporting their resource utilization and thus appearing to be over utilized when they are in fact empty. System is Ubuntu 12.04 using cloud archive Folsom (2012.2-0ubuntu5~cloud0) problem appeared on a single node after

Re: [Openstack] Help with VMs

2013-02-19 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Harvey West harvey.w...@btinternet.com wrote: This boots ok. kvm -m 2048 -hda freeBSD.img -boot c (note: did not use virtio mods. Assumed these were just optimized NIC/SCSI drivers. Which I can live without for the time being) I ran into the same isssue with

Re: [Openstack] Network layout/planning for HA

2013-03-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 03:25:56PM -0400, Samuel Winchenbach wrote: :It looks like 802.3ad is for making parallel, redundant connections. I :only have two NICs in the server; I don't think I would want to bind by :internal and external NICs together would I? What you want is up to you :) You

Re: [Openstack] multi-host mode in quantum

2013-04-04 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Henry Gessau ges...@cisco.com wrote: Unfortunately, I don't think multiple network nodes is the same multi-host network mode that Xin is asking about. The following did not make it into grizzly and is now targeted for havana:

Re: [Openstack] Checkpoint VM and roll back

2013-04-25 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Tim Bell tim.b...@cern.ch wrote: I'd like to be able to 1. checkpoint a running virtual machine 2. run a test 3. rollback to the checkpoint from step 1 Has anyone had experience of doing this using OpenStack (such as with snapshots) ? For slow cycling

Re: [Openstack] Grizzly Bear

2013-07-19 Thread Jonathan Proulx
As long as the network the interfaces connect to is properly configured for the traffic you are trying to put across them there's no reason I know of that OpenStack should care if they are physical or virtual (or tunnels or bonded interfaces, or what). That said I've not tried virtual interfaces.