Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev] Upstream LTS Releases

For those wondering why operators can’t always upgrade sooner, I can add a little bit of color: In our clouds, we have a couple vendors (one network plugin, one cinder driver) and those vendors typically are 1-3 releases behind ‘cutting edge’. By the time they support the version we want to

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] Upstream LTS Releases

For those wondering why operators can’t always upgrade sooner, I can add a little bit of color: In our clouds, we have a couple vendors (one network plugin, one cinder driver) and those vendors typically are 1-3 releases behind ‘cutting edge’. By the time they support the version we want to

Re: [Openstack] [RDO] RDO Pike released

Thank you for your continued efforts RDO team! > On Sep 1, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the > RDO build for OpenStack Pike for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux 7 > and Red Hat Enterprise

Re: [Openstack] [Fuel] storage question. (Fuel 10 Newton deploy with storage nodes)

servers dedicated to Ceph regardless of how you want to use it. Some people to colocate Ceph onto their compute nodes and have them perform double duty (i.e. ‘hyperconverged’) Hopefully this gives you a little bit of information regarding how Ceph is used. Mike Smith Lead Cloud System Architect

Re: [Openstack-operators] Experience with Cinder volumes as root disks?

At Overstock we do both, in different clouds. Our preferred option is a Ceph backend for Nova ephemeral storage. We like it because it is fast to boot and makes resize easy. Our use case doesn’t require snapshots nor do we have a need for keeping the data around if a server needs to be

Re: [Openstack] How do you manage your openstack utilisation?

One thing we do at Overstock.com to try and help with this concern in our dev and test environments is to require that an expiration date is associated with each Openstack resource. As users spin up an environment, they have an expiration date such that if they don’t

Re: [Openstack-operators] Leveraging Gnocchi in Mitaka

Thanks for the response Gordon. I work together with Tracy and can add a couple of things: We use ceilometer-compute and we would like to have it push metrics directly to Gnocchi, bypassing the rabbit queues that ceilometer uses in the default Mitaka configuration. Currently our

Re: [Openstack] Production openstack on 5 node

I am working on deploying ooo just finished >> the doc for Ocata undercloud. >> >> Just my two cents to concord with Mike’s statement. >> >> Remo >> >> Inviato da iPhone >> >> Il giorno 20 giu 2017, alle ore 20:51, Mike Smith >> <mism...@ov

Re: [Openstack] Production openstack on 5 node

deploys. Since they are affiliated with RedHat, they would also lean heavily towards the Ansible option as well. Good luck! Mike Smith Overstock Cloud Team On Jun 20, 2017, at 5:49 PM, Erik McCormick <emccorm...@cirrusseven.com<mailto:emccorm...@cirrusseven.com>> wrote: This is

Re: [Openstack] Deployment for production

At Overstock.com we use RDO on CentOS for our production clouds. Works great for us. We do the install straight from the openstack docs but do our own puppet modules since we use puppet for everything we do. Mike > On May 3, 2017, at 1:01 AM, Satish Patel wrote: > >

Re: [Openstack] [Nova/Neutron] Container networking

Eswar You may want to check out the Magnum project. It is one way to do containers within VMs in the Openstack ecosystem On Apr 22, 2017, at 2:03 PM, ESWAR RAO > wrote: Hi All, Please let me know if nova supports spawning of containers inside

[Openstack] [aodh] alarm-action posts don't seem to have any payload

to configure AODH to include this type of information in it’s POST payload for the alarm-actions? Thanks, Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://overstock.com> ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/li

Re: [Openstack] [cinder][nova] Issue with live-migration on new Mitaka cloud using FC XIO storage

the scenes on the XIO via their image caching live-migrate ok, but any volumes that were ‘originals’ fail miserably to migrate. EMC is working through those issues and several more we found. On Mar 10, 2017, at 12:23 AM, Mike Smith <mism...@overstock.com<mailto:mism...@overstock.com&g

[Openstack] [cinder][nova] Issue with live-migration on new Mitaka cloud using FC XIO storage

s. I believe the XIO Cinder driver is responsible for making sure the storage paths are properly presented, but I don’t fully understand the relationship between what Nova is doing and what the Cinder driver does. Any insight would be appreciated! Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architec

Re: [Openstack] Assume user or create a instance for a user as admin

Can you verify that you have given the admin user access to the demo tenant? > On Mar 2, 2017, at 12:03 AM, Kim Gert Nielsen <k...@one.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 02:41:37PM +, Mike Smith wrote: >> Using the nova command, you can do ‘nova —os-p

Re: [Openstack] Assume user or create a instance for a user as admin

directly. Hope this helps. Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://overstock.com> On Mar 1, 2017, at 1:28 AM, Kim Gert Nielsen <k...@one.com<mailto:k...@one.com>> wrote: Hi, I have been trying to find a way where I can create an instance for a user/pr

Re: [Openstack-operators] ceph vs gluster for block

of running low on disk space! You never want to run low on a Ceph cluster because it will write lock until you add more disk/OSDs Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://overstock.com> On Feb 16, 2017, at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Abdiel Gonzalez Valdebenito <jon

Re: [Openstack-operators] CentOS 7.3 libvirt appears to be broken for virtio-scsi and ceph with cephx auth

pain. That’s frightening that the virtio-scsi support is broken as well. Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://overstock.com> On Dec 20, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Mike Lowe <joml...@iu.edu<mailto:joml...@iu.edu>> wrote: I got a rather nasty surprise upgradi

Re: [Openstack-operators] Any serious stability and performance issues on RBD as ephemeral storage ?

Vahric - We use Ceph for nova ephemeral as well on thousands of VMs and we love it. Fast provisioning of VMs, solid, reliable and flexible. Works great with live-migration. The only time we ever have a problem is an OSD is allowed to get too full. Never let that happen! Mike Smith Lead

Re: [Openstack-operators] Nova live-migration failing for RHEL7/CentOS7 VMs

Yeah, I saw that in his response. Sounds like a good option if you want to try it. I hadn’t tried it only because I didn’t know about it at the time, and the older version was working fine for us on our other hosts. Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://overstock.

Re: [Openstack-operators] Nova live-migration failing for RHEL7/CentOS7 VMs

compute hosts to the old ones, did the yum downgrade of those packages on the new hosts, and then rebooted those hosts for good measure. After that I no longer had the problem. Good luck! Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://overstock.com> On Sep 28, 2016, at 8

Re: [Openstack-operators] Nova live-migration failing for RHEL7/CentOS7 VMs

7_2.4 Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://overstock.com> On Sep 28, 2016, at 8:30 AM, William Josefsson <william.josef...@gmail.com<mailto:william.josef...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I have problems with nova live-migration for my CentOS7 and RHEL7 VMs.

Re: [Openstack-operators] Nova

Hi Adam - The OS of the guest is independent of the Openstack version. Your choice of hypervisor (KVM, VMWare, HyperV, etc) would just need to support the OS version that you want to run on your guests. Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://overstock.com> On

Re: [Openstack-operators] Blazar? (Reservations and/or scheduled termination)

Yes, at Overstock our users don't provision instances directly out of horizon or nova. They use an orchestration tool we wrote in Django which among other things tracks a lease time, warns users about expiration, allows them to extend etc. Works great for us, but the same approach may not

Re: [Openstack] password in clear text

Piggybacking on this question, I also would like to know if there is a solution to prevent storing passwords in the various service config files. We store our configs in subversion, and I hate that I have those passwords in there. Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<h

Re: [Openstack-operators] Austin Summit Ops Day - Kuryr and Containers Networking

/8375 Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> On Mar 12, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Edgar Magana <edgar.mag...@workday.com<mailto:edgar.mag...@workday.com>> wrote: Hello Gal, I will speak in behalf on my own experience. I do believe there is a

Re: [Openstack] ceph and openstack

for general use, and also Ceph as one option in a multi-backend Cinder configuration. We also use it for a Glance store, which is a fantastic option because it makes disk provisioning for Nova instant, since you’re essentially snapshotting and image RBD into an RBD for Nova/Cinder. Mike Smith Lead

[Openstack-operators] [ceilometer] Is it possible to set how often a ceilometer alarm fires when continuous alarm is true?

for our use-case, but doing it multiple times per minute is excessive. I haven’t seen anything about this in the docs or in my search. Help appreciated! Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> ___ Ope

Re: [Openstack-operators] libvirt cpu type per instance?

Jonathan - There are some nova settings (at least for KVM that you are probably thinking of, such as: cpu_mode cpu_model http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/kvm.html Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> On Mar 3, 2016, a

Re: [Openstack-operators] COMMERCIAL:Re: How to install magnum?

Mike (Perez) I believe he’s referring to me. I volunteered to help write Operator/Production oriented documentation assuming that there are RPMs I can use (and that eventually those RPMs are part of RDO) Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com>

Re: [Openstack-operators] How to install magnum?

was able to use those to get things installed. As a side note, I’m still very interested in Magnum, had to set it aside for now because the heat template used by magnum required an external network, which is something our specific implementation doesn’t use. Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceph] Different storage types on different disk types

for SSD-backed Cinder volumes in addition to our Ceph based Cinder volumes since Cinder lets you have multi-backend. Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team Lead Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> On Oct 26, 2015, at 7:02 AM, Adam Lawson <alaw...@aqorn.com<mailto:alaw...@aqorn

Re: [Openstack-operators] [release] RDO Liberty released in CentOS Cloud SIG

+1. Thanks for getting this out so quickly! Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team Lead Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> On Oct 23, 2015, at 8:40 AM, Edgar Magana <edgar.mag...@workday.com<mailto:edgar.mag...@workday.com>> wrote: I do second that! Great effort. Edg

Re: [Openstack] KILO -- Max disk size is 20 gb

scripts that resize these for you, or Kilo has an provisioning-time option to make the disk automatically resize Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team Lead Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> On Sep 24, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Nasir Mahmood <nasir.mahm...@gmail.com<mailto:nasir.mahm.

Re: [Openstack] Admin guide

Those are available at docs.openstack.org<http://docs.openstack.org> Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team Lead Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> On Sep 15, 2015, at 5:19 PM, venkatesh kotipalli <openstackvenkat...@gmail.com<mailto:openstackvenkat...@gmail.com>>

[Openstack-operators] Using VMs as hypervisors for nova-docker

through those issues, but if there is some reason that this just won’t work I’d love to spare myself some time. Thanks Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team Lead Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> ___ OpenStack-operators mailing list Ope

Re: [Openstack-operators] [magnum] Trying to use Magnum with Kilo

: - Original Message - From: David Medberry openst...@medberry.netmailto:openst...@medberry.net To: Mike Smith mism...@overstock.commailto:mism...@overstock.com Distributions are respectively responsible for what they package or don't package (though if they package the service they SHOULD IMHO package

[Openstack-operators] [magnum] Trying to use Magnum with Kilo

. However, the “magnum” command doesn’t seem to exist. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to exist as a symlink to something else? Is anyone else out there using Magnum with RDO Kilo? I’d love to chat with someone else that has worked through these issues. Thanks, Mike Mike Smith Principal Engineer

Re: [Openstack-operators] [magnum] Trying to use Magnum with Kilo

the dependency overhead. Unless it’s something we can do to help get the packages into the RDO repos (i.e. become a package maintainer as a way of contributing) Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team Lead Overstock.comhttp://Overstock.com On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:47 PM, David Medberry openst

Re: [Openstack] [KILO] [CEPH] Live Migration failure

on one compute host but not the other? In our setup with Ceph we have the same libvirt secret uuid across all our hypervisor hosts for Ceph and live migration works great. Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team Lead Overstock.comhttp://Overstock.com On Aug 13, 2015, at 6:22 AM, Mehdi

[Openstack] Magnum Installation Docs?

/openstack/magnum/tree/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst Is this the most current documentation for installing Magnum? If there is not something better out there, I’d be willing to help write something and get this into the main documentation area. Thanks Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team

Re: [Openstack] Magnum Installation Docs?

if there was anything more production oriented. I will give it a shot and see how it goes. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out. Mike Smith Principal Engineer / Cloud Team Lead Overstock.comhttp://Overstock.com On Jun 10, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Lana Brindley openst...@lanabrindley.commailto:openst

Re: [Openstack] [Glance] Images

We use the Oz tool (see http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_creating_images_automatically.html#oz) to build images from scratch and then upload them to Glance. We actually have scripts in place to do both those things automatically each month and it works great for us. Mike

Re: [Openstack] Deploy

I don’t think you will like the results of trying to run Openstack on RHEL 5. It will be a huge headache to get everything to work, if it’s even possible. For RH distros, newer versions (Juno, Kilo) need RHEL 7 and even older versions (Folsom, Grizzly, Havana) are geared for RHEL 6 Mike

Re: [Openstack] Cinder error with Ceph backend, ImageCopyFailure: Failed to copy image to volume

. If it works fine, then the issue is likely related to the libvirtd secrets” section and making sure nova and libvirt are set up. Let us know what you see and I’ll see if I can help. Mike Mike Smith Principal Engineer, Website Systems Overstock.comhttp://Overstock.com On May 11, 2015, at 4:49 PM

Re: [Openstack] user who provision a vm

If you do a “nova show UUID”, there is a “user_id” field that shows you the keystone user id of the user that created the VM. On Apr 23, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Jesus arteche chechu.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Is there any way to get who provisioned a VM? also, is possible to get a

Re: [Openstack] vm and hots cpu memory utilization

Hi Group, I am trying to find out if vm and host %cpu and %memory utilzation can be extracted to external repository from openstack for all vms and hosts, like pulling data from vcenter for vmware? Has anybody done something like this? Thanks, Mike___

Re: [Openstack-operators] Sharing resources across OpenStack instances

(no Ceilometer yet). Mike Smith Principal Engineer, Website Systems Overstock.com On Apr 22, 2015, at 6:26 PM, Marc Heckmann marc.heckm...@ubisoft.com wrote: [top posting on this one] Hi, When you write Openstack instances, I'm assuming that you're referring to Openstack deployments right

Re: [Openstack] pull guest resource utilization data from Suse Cloud 5

I need to pull resource utilization for guest hosted on Cloud 5 open stack. Has anybody done something like this? Any insight is appreciated? Thanks, Mike___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to :

[Openstack-operators] No more identity groups?

Hello all. On my Havana-version openstack cloud, Horizon has the option of creating groups of users and then adding groups of users to tenants instead of having to add users individually. On my Juno-version cloud, this feature seems to no longer exist.I checked the keystone catalog and

Re: [Openstack-operators] No more identity groups?

of the keystone v3 api I think. I've only seen it show up when I configure horizon to specifically talk v3 to keystone. Thanks, Kevin From: Mike Smith [mism...@overstock.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 4:33 PM To: openstack-operators

Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev][openstack-operators]flush expired tokens and moves deleted instance

resources. We recommend that you use cron to configure a periodic task that purges expired tokens hourly: # (crontab -l -u keystone 21 | grep -q token_flush) || \ echo '@hourly /usr/bin/keystone-manage token_flush /var/log/keystone/ keystone-tokenflush.log 21' \ /var/spool/cron/keystone Mike

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators]flush expired tokens and moves deleted instance

resources. We recommend that you use cron to configure a periodic task that purges expired tokens hourly: # (crontab -l -u keystone 21 | grep -q token_flush) || \ echo '@hourly /usr/bin/keystone-manage token_flush /var/log/keystone/ keystone-tokenflush.log 21' \ /var/spool/cron/keystone Mike

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Cinder] volume / host relation

+1 in that we experienced this as well. We implemented an HA iscsi cinder and failover from one node to the other works great until you have to do some administrative action on the volume and the mismatched name in the database messes that up. We’ve had to change hostnames in the DB or fail

Re: [Openstack] Suddenly plagued with RPC response errors

I do so, I would love to know if anyone has an idea as to why this would be occurring.Restarting nova-network is not something I love doing because we lose network connectivity to our instances for several minutes. Thanks On May 28, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Mike Smith mism

Re: [Openstack] Opentack and DNS / DHCP / IPAM

of different providers (including InfoBlox as an option) I will confess that I have not played around with Designate yet. Mike Smith Principal Engineer, Website Systems Overstock.comhttp://Overstock.com On Nov 25, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmarti...@gmail.commailto:thiagocmarti

[Openstack-operators] Active/passive nova-network failover results in both controllers APRing for gateway addresses

, or alternatively automating the tear-down of these gateway addresses. Am I missing something here? Thanks, Mike Smith Principal Engineer, Website Systems Overstock.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is intended only for the use and review

[Openstack] Adding vif types to instance_info_caches after upgrade from Folsom

. Is there a recommended way to back-populate the vif type into the instance_info_caches table for all my existing instances? Do I need to do this manually, or is there some manager tool that can be used to set these? Thanks, Mike Mike Smith Overstock.com CONFIDENTIALITY

[Openstack] Suddenly plagued with RPC response errors

I have a CentOS 6.5 Folsom cluster running 716 VMs across 16 hypervisors. This past week I have started seeing problems which I believe are related to message queueing. Symptom one: Horizon stalls for a long time upon login or when changing tenants, and eventually displays a Could not

[Openstack] User groups, roles, domains disappear from Horizon after Havana 2013.2.2-1 upgrade

I recently upgraded my Havana cluster to version 2013.2.2-1. After the upgrade, I notice that the Identity Panel section of the admin dashboard no longer shows items for Domains, Groups, or Roles. Has anyone else experienced this? Do I have to configure something differently now to show

Re: [Openstack] [2nd Try] A bug about OpenStack VlanManager on single-host

Bird - We're running with VlanManager on Centos 6.4 on Folsom, Grizzly and Havana and it works great for us. What is the specific issue you're having with it? Mike From: Matt Riedemann [mrie...@linux.vnet.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 7:20 AM

Re: [Openstack] Creating nova-network in Havana with doesn't respect specified VLAN number

admin_tenant_name = admin admin_user = admin auth_host = openstack-keystone.stage.ostk.com On Nov 1, 2013, at 12:22 PM, amit gupta wrote: Please post your configuration files for proper response (nova.conf and api conf files etc with passwords removed) On 11/1/2013 10:21 AM, Mike Smith wrote

Re: [Openstack] Doc or Link for enabling Active Directory authentication for login information in Havana

I'm looking to do the exact same thing Ankush (AD just for Keystone user authentication but SQL backend for everything else Keystone related) and have done quite a bit of searching. So far I see multiple people saying it can be done, but haven't found anyone who's documented how to do it. +1