[openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Migration from nova-network to Neutron for large production clouds

2014-08-20 Thread Tim Bell
Michael has been posting very informative blogs on the summary of the mid-cycle meetups for Nova. The one on the Nova Network to Neutron migration was of particular interest to me as it raises a number of potential impacts for the CERN production cloud. The blog itself is at http://www.stillhq.

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Migration from nova-network to Neutron for large production clouds

2014-08-21 Thread Tim Bell
On 21 Aug 2014, at 12:38, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Tim Bell wrote: >> Michael has been posting very informative blogs on the summary of the >> mid-cycle meetups for Nova. The one on the Nova Network to Neutron >> migration was of particular interest to me as it raises a n

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [ptls] The Czar system, or how to scale PTLs

2014-08-23 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: John Dickinson [mailto:m...@not.mn] > Sent: 23 August 2014 03:20 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [ptls] The Czar system, or how to scale > PTLs > > I think Anne makes some excellent points

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Migration from nova-network to Neutron for large production clouds

2014-08-26 Thread Tim Bell
> From: Michael Still [mailto:mi...@stillhq.com] > Sent: 25 August 2014 23:38 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Migration from nova-network to > Neutron for large production clouds ... > Mark McClain and I discusse

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Migration from nova-network to Neutron for large production clouds

2014-08-27 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Still [mailto:mi...@stillhq.com] > Sent: 26 August 2014 22:20 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Migration from nova-network to > Neutron for large production clouds ... > >

Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Comments on the concerns arose during the TC meeting

2014-09-04 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:thie...@openstack.org] > Sent: 04 September 2014 16:59 > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Comments on the concerns arose during > the TC meeting > > Sean Dague wrote: > > [...] > > So, honestly,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Comments on the concerns arose during the TC meeting

2014-09-05 Thread Tim Bell
ailto:dtro...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 September 2014 19:11 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Comments on the concerns arose during the TC meeting On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Thierry Carrez mailto:thie...@openstack.org>> wrote: Tim B

Re: [openstack-dev] Kilo Cycle Goals Exercise

2014-09-08 Thread Tim Bell
The End User working group is being described at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/End_User_Working_Group. Chris Kemp is establishing the structure. This page covers how to get involved... Tim From: Brad Topol [mailto:bto...@us.ibm.com] Sent: 08 September 2014 19:50 To: OpenStack Development Ma

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Maintenance mode in OpenStack during patching/upgrades

2014-09-09 Thread Tim Bell
It would be great if each OpenStack component could provide a maintenance mode like this… there was some work being considered on Cells https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/disable-child-cell-support which would have allowed parts of Nova to indicate they were in maintenance. Something g

Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Comments on the concerns arose during the TC meeting

2014-09-10 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Stefano Maffulli [mailto:stef...@openstack.org] > Sent: 10 September 2014 19:29 > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Comments on the concerns arose during > the TC meeting > > On 09/05/2014

Re: [openstack-dev] [Keystone][Horizon] CORS and Federation

2014-09-17 Thread Tim Bell
Has Kristy's patch made it into Juno ? Tim > -Original Message- > From: David Chadwick [mailto:d.w.chadw...@kent.ac.uk] > Sent: 17 September 2014 15:37 > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org; Kristy Siu > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Keystone][Horizon] CORS and Federation > > Hi Adam

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Can we deprecate the server backup API please?

2018-11-17 Thread Tim Bell
Mistral can schedule the executions and then a workflow to do the server image create. The CERN implementation of this is described at http://openstack-in-production.blogspot.com/2017/08/scheduled-snapshots.html with the implementation at https://gitlab.cern.ch/cloud-infrastructure/mistral-wo

Re: [openstack-dev] Introducing the new OpenStack service for Containers

2013-11-21 Thread Tim Bell
Can we make sure that the costs for the end users are also considered as part of this ? - Configuration management will need further modules - Dashboard confusion as we get multiple tabs - Accounting, Block Storage, Networking, Orchestration confusion as the concep

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] future fate of nova-network?

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Bell
Starting from the existing code also makes migration for production environments currently using the code much easier. Support those of us running production OpenStack clouds needs to be one of the major development concerns as people reflect on refactoring along with making sure we don't make

Re: [openstack-dev] tenant or project

2013-11-23 Thread Tim Bell
Horizon uses Project in the user interface, yet the openstack.rc file contains tenant_id and tenant_name. It makes it very difficult to write user guides given that such a fundamental concept has two names. No problem to maintain compatibility (i.e. try OS_TENANT_NAME after OS_PROJECT_NAME) bu

Re: [openstack-dev] tenant or project

2013-11-23 Thread Tim Bell
To be clear, I don't care Tenant vs Project. However, I do care that we should not continue this confusion. One or the other... but not both and a plan to depreciate the other. Naturally, at least 1 release backwards compatibility for environment variables or APIs. Tim From: Dean Troyer [mail

Re: [openstack-dev] tenant or project

2013-11-26 Thread Tim Bell
Can we get a TC policy that 'project' is the standard and that all projects using tenant should plan a smooth migration path to project along with the timescales for implementation and retirement of tenant ? Tim From: Christopher Yeoh [mailto:cbky...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 November 2013 12:48 To:

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] [glance] Heater Proposal

2013-12-05 Thread Tim Bell
Completely agree with Brad... a new project for this is not what is needed. >From an operator's point of view, it is a REAL, REAL, REAL pain to be >configuring yet another project, yet another set of Puppet/Chef recipes, >additional monitoring, service nodes, new databases, more documentation,

Re: [openstack-dev] Project-Scoped Service Catalog Entries

2013-12-16 Thread Tim Bell
+1 There is also the use case where a new service is being introduced for everyone eventually but you wish to start with a few friends. In the event of problems, the effort to tidy up is much less. Documentation can be updated with the production environment. Tim > -Original Message-

Re: [openstack-dev] a time-based resource management system

2013-12-17 Thread Tim Bell
There appears to be some overlap of this proposal with 'climate' which provides a resource reservation system. They meet regularly ... see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Climate for contacts. Tim From: Alan Tan [mailto:y...@students.waikato.ac.nz] Sent: 16 December 2013 23:42 To: ope

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack] Quota delegation tool (for nova) ?

2013-12-28 Thread Tim Bell
I'm not sure how Climate would map to the non-predictable nature of the workload. I had understood Climate as providing a booking system to reserve resources in the future (which is a valuable use case but not quite the problem Ulrich is describing of delegation of quota). Looking at https://b

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility

2013-12-28 Thread Tim Bell
I think there is a need for an incompatible change review process which includes more of the community than just those performing the code reviews. This kind of change can cause a lot of disruption for those of us running clouds so it is great to see that you are looking for more input. In the

Re: [openstack-dev] Announce of Rally - benchmarking system for OpenStack

2013-12-28 Thread Tim Bell
I think there also needs to be a scalability best practise and reference architecture. Benchmarking allows us to identify problems with the code but we also need some community wisdom on how to deploy at scale. Does this fit within Rally or can you advise where this community wisdom should be

Re: [openstack-dev] Announce of Rally - benchmarking system for OpenStack

2013-12-28 Thread Tim Bell
From: bo...@pavlovic.ru [mailto:bo...@pavlovic.ru] On Behalf Of Boris Pavlovic Sent: 28 December 2013 21:02 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Ali Beddah; Tim Bell Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Announce of Rally - benchmarking system for OpenStack Ali Gamal, ?

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] - Revert change of default ephemeral fs to ext4

2013-12-30 Thread Tim Bell
There is a big difference between DocImpact (i.e. needing some improvements to the doc) and putting the migration effort onto the users without automation to help... as I have said previously, while this (and others like it) may be a worthwhile change in isolation, making the upgrade process mor

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility

2014-01-01 Thread Tim Bell
> - Changes in default behaviour: Always likely to affect existing systems in > some way. Maybe we should have an additional type of review vote that comes > from people who are recognised as reperensting large production deployments ? This is my biggest worry... there are changes which ma

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility

2014-01-02 Thread Tim Bell
Is there a mechanism to tag changes as being potentially more appropriate for the more ops related profiles ? I'm thinking more when someone proposes a change they suspect could have an operations impact, they could highlight this as being one for particular focus. How about an OpsImpact tag ?

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Dynamic Meters in Ceilometer

2014-01-06 Thread Tim Bell
Thinking using inotify/configuration file changes to implement dynamic meters, this would be limited to administrators of ceilometer itself (i.e. with write access to the file) rather than the project administrators (as defined by keystone roles). Thus, as a project administrator who is not the

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Tim Bell
+1 from me too UpgradeImpact is a much better term. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com] > Sent: 07 January 2014 17:53 > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional > changes that b

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Dynamic Meters in Ceilometer

2014-01-08 Thread Tim Bell
files. Yes, the data collection was designed to be configured and controlled by the deployer, not the tenant. What benefits do we gain by giving that control to the tenant? ildikov: Sorry, my explanation was not clear. I meant there the configuration of data collection for projects, what was ment

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility

2014-01-09 Thread Tim Bell
org > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional > changes that break backwards compatibility > > Jay Pipes wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 14:26 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >> Tim Bell wrote: > >>> +1 from me too UpgradeImpact

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [rfc] drop XML from v3 API entirely

2014-01-15 Thread Tim Bell
Is the impact of dropping XML understood for the users of the OpenStack APIs ? Tim > -Original Message- > From: Alex Xu [mailto:x...@linux.vnet.ibm.com] > Sent: 15 January 2014 14:33 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Power/temperature monitors for scheduler

2014-01-22 Thread Tim Bell
Is there overlap with https://launchpad.net/kwapi and https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/send-data-to-ceilometer ? Tim From: Gao, Fengqian [mailto:fengqian@intel.com] Sent: 23 January 2014 06:25 To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Power/temperatu

Re: [openstack-dev] MariaDB support

2014-01-24 Thread Tim Bell
This is exactly my worry... at what point can I consider moving to MariaDB with the expectation that the testing confidence is equivalent to that which is currently available from MySQL ? The on-disk format is not so much a concern but there are many potential subtle differences in the API whi

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] nova-network in Icehouse and beyond

2014-01-29 Thread Tim Bell
I'm not seeing a path to migrate 1,000s of production VMs from nova network to Neutron. Can someone describe how this can be done without downtime for the VMs ? Can we build an approach for the cases below in a single OpenStack production cloud: 1. Existing VMs to carry on running without dow

Re: [openstack-dev] [Network] Allocate MAC and IP address for a VM instance

2014-02-18 Thread Tim Bell
Jay, We've got a similar requirement at CERN where we would like to have pools of ip/mac combinations for each subnet and have it so that the user is just allocated one (and for the same subnet that the hypervisor is on). We've not found a good solution so far. Tim > -Original Message---

Re: [openstack-dev] Monitoring IP Availability

2014-02-20 Thread Tim Bell
Are these hooks generic enough to be included upstream ? This may solve a problem we've been struggling with. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Collins, Sean [mailto:sean_colli...@cable.comcast.com] > Sent: 20 February 2014 22:59 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage qu

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Fixing the console.log grows forever bug.

2014-12-07 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Tony Breeds [mailto:t...@bakeyournoodle.com] > Sent: 06 December 2014 06:39 > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: [openstack-dev] [nova] Fixing the console.log grows forever bug. > ... > > However I was encouraged to investigate fixing this in qem

Re: [openstack-dev] Hierarchical Multitenancy

2014-12-23 Thread Tim Bell
It would be great if we can get approval for the Hierachical Quota handling in Nova too (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/129420/). Tim From: Morgan Fainberg [mailto:morgan.fainb...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 December 2014 01:22 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject:

Re: [openstack-dev] Hierarchical Multitenancy

2014-12-23 Thread Tim Bell
AM, "Tim Bell" mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch>> wrote: > > > > It would be great if we can get approval for the Hierachical Quota handling > in Nova too (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/129420/). Nova's spec deadline has passed, but I think this is a good candidate

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Hierarchical Multitenancy quotas

2015-01-07 Thread Tim Bell
I think this is a good candidate for an >exception. We will announce the process for asking for a formal spec >exception shortly after new years. > From: Tim Bell [mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch] Sent: 23 December 2014 19:02 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) S

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][L3] Stop agent scheduling without topping sevices

2015-01-08 Thread Tim Bell
There must be other OpenStack services which have also faced this ‘stop scheduling but keep replying’ issues. Can we make the names for the various states and transitions consistent ? Tim From: Kyle Mestery [mailto:mest...@mestery.com] Sent: 08 January 2015 16:26 To: OpenStack Development Maili

Re: [openstack-dev] Vancouver Design Summit format changes

2015-01-09 Thread Tim Bell
Let's ask the operators opinions too on openstack-operators mailing list. There was some duplication during the summit between the tracks but there is also a significant operator need outside the pure code area which comes along with the big tent tagging for projects. We need to make sure that

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] reckoning time for nova ec2 stack

2015-01-09 Thread Tim Bell
Let's not forget that more than a quarter of OpenStack production deployments are using the EC2 interface from my memory of the user survey. Our experience is that the basic functionality is OK but you need to keep into the appropriate subset. Any plans for depreciation of the EC2 inside Nova

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] RAID interface - backing disk hints

2015-01-21 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Victor Lowther [mailto:victor.lowt...@gmail.com] > Sent: 21 January 2015 21:06 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] RAID interface - backing disk hints > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Ji

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

2015-01-25 Thread Tim Bell
This is often mentioned as one of those items which catches every OpenStack cloud operator at some time. It's not clear to me that there could not be a scheduled job built into the system with a default frequency (configurable, ideally). If we are all configuring this as a cron job, is there a

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone] Redesign of Keystone Federation

2014-05-28 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Adam Young [mailto:ayo...@redhat.com] > Sent: 28 May 2014 18:23 > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone] Redesign of Keystone Federation > > On 05/28/2014 11:59 AM, David Chadwick wrote: > > Hi Everyone > > > > at the A

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone] Redesign of Keystone Federation

2014-05-29 Thread Tim Bell
A further vote to maintain compatibility . One of the key parts to a good federation design is to be using it in the field and encountering real life problems. Production sites expect stability of interfaces and functions. If this cannot be reasonably ensured, the federation function deploymen

Re: [openstack-dev] Gate proposal - drop Postgresql configurations in the gate

2014-06-12 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Sean Dague [mailto:s...@dague.net] > Sent: 12 June 2014 17:37 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Gate proposal - drop Postgresql configurations in > the gate > ... > But if we're talking about a dev

[openstack-dev] [nova] Reducing quota below utilisation

2014-06-17 Thread Tim Bell
We have some projects which are dynamically creating VMs up to their quota. Under some circumstances, as cloud administrators, we would like these projects to shrink and make room for other higher priority work. We had investigated setting the project quota below the current utilisation (i.e.

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC - using Gerrit for Nova Blueprint review & approval

2014-03-07 Thread Tim Bell
The recent operator gathering (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/operators-feedback-mar14) concluded a similar proposal, based on Blueprint-on-Blueprints (BoB for short). The aim was that operators of production OpenStack clouds should engage to give input at an early stage - Raising concerns

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][db][performance] Proposal: Get rid of soft deletion (step by step)

2014-03-11 Thread Tim Bell
If the deleted column is removed, how would the 'undelete' functionality be provided ? This saves operators when user accidents occur since restoring the whole database to a point in time affects the other tenants also. Tim > Hi all, > > >>> I've never understood why we treat the DB as a LOG

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][db][performance] Proposal: Get rid of soft deletion (step by step)

2014-03-11 Thread Tim Bell
Typical cases are user error where someone accidentally deletes an item from a tenant. The image guys have a good structure where images become unavailable and are recoverable for a certain period of time. A regular periodic task cleans up deleted items after a configurable number of seconds to

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][db][performance] Proposal: Get rid of soft deletion (step by step)

2014-03-11 Thread Tim Bell
][db][performance] Proposal: Get rid of soft deletion (step by step) On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Tim Bell mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch>> wrote: Typical cases are user error where someone accidentally deletes an item from a tenant. The image guys have a good structure where images

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][db][performance] Proposal: Get rid of soft deletion (step by step)

2014-03-12 Thread Tim Bell
mes infallible human beings as a design > criteria is making an invalid assumption. > > > > -- > > Paul Carver > > VO: 732-545-7377 > > Cell: 908-803-1656 > > E: pcar...@att.com > > Q Instant Message > > > > > > -Original Message- &

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][db][performance] Proposal: Get rid of soft deletion (step by step)

2014-03-12 Thread Tim Bell
> > If you want to archive images per-say, on deletion just export it to a > 'backup tape' (for example) and store enough of the metadata > on that 'tape' to re-insert it if this is really desired and then delete it > from the database (or do the export... asynchronously). The > same could be

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][db][performance] Proposal: Get rid of soft deletion (step by step)

2014-03-14 Thread Tim Bell
I think we need to split the scenarios and focus on the end user experience with the cloud a few come to my mind from the CERN experience (but this may not be all): 1. Accidental deletion of an object (including meta data) 2. Multi-level consistency (such as between Cell API and child ins

Re: [openstack-dev] [db][all] (Proposal) Restorable & Delayed deletion of OS Resources

2014-03-15 Thread Tim Bell
+1 .. looks like it would cover the accidental use case. Something could then be included into oslo for standardisation. Tim From: Boris Pavlovic [mailto:bpavlo...@mirantis.com] Sent: 13 March 2014 20:42 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev] [db][all] (Proposal) Restora

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][db][performance] Proposal: Get rid of soft deletion (step by step)

2014-03-17 Thread Tim Bell
Glance provides a very nice set up for this - Default is no delayed deletion - Length of time before scrubbing is configurable - The clean up process is automated using the glance scrubber which can be run as a standalone job or as a daemon Tim > -Original Message- > From: Radomir Dopi

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] [QA] Slow Ceilometer resource_list CLI command

2014-03-17 Thread Tim Bell
At CERN, we've had similar issues when enabling telemetry. Our resource-list times out after 10 minutes when the proxies for HA assume there is no answer coming back. Keystone instances per cell have helped the situation a little so we can collect the data but there was a significant increase i

Re: [openstack-dev] [db][all] (Proposal) Restorable & Delayed deletion of OS Resources

2014-03-17 Thread Tim Bell
Interesting proposal... there would also be a benefit of different tables per program from an operational perspective. If I need to recover a database for any reason, having different tables would ensure that I could restore glance to a point in time without having to lose the nova delete data.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer][QA][Tempest][Infra] Ceilometer tempest testing in gate

2014-03-18 Thread Tim Bell
If UCA is required, what would be the upgrade path for a currently running OpenStack Havana site to Icehouse with this requirement ? Would it be an online upgrade (i.e. what order to upgrade the different components in order to keep things running at all times) ? Tim From: Chmouel Boudjnah [m

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer][QA][Tempest][Infra] Ceilometer tempest testing in gate

2014-03-20 Thread Tim Bell
+1 for performance analysis to understand what needs to be optimised. Metering should be light-weight. For those of us running in production, we don't have an option to turn ceilometer off some of the time. That we are not able to run through the gate tests hints that there are optimisations t

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer][QA][Tempest][Infra] Ceilometer tempest testing in gate

2014-03-20 Thread Tim Bell
meter][QA][Tempest][Infra] Ceilometer tempest testing in gate Tim, yep. If you use one db for Ceilometer and Nova then nova's performance may be affected. I've seen this issue. Will start profiling ASAP. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Tim Bell mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch>> wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Updates to Juno blueprint review process

2014-03-21 Thread Tim Bell
I am a strong advocate of the Blueprint-on-Blueprints process we discussed in the operator mini-summit so that experienced cloud administrators can give input before lots of code is written (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/operators-feedback-mar14) but we need to be aware that these people wi

Re: [openstack-dev] Rolling upgrades in icehouse

2014-03-24 Thread Tim Bell
How does this interact with cells ? Can the cell API instances be upgraded independently of the cells themselves ? My ideal use case would be - It would be possible to upgrade one of the cells (such as a QA environment) before the cell API nodes - Cells can be upgraded one-by-one as needed by

Re: [openstack-dev] Rolling upgrades in icehouse

2014-03-24 Thread Tim Bell
t; > On Mar 24, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Tim Bell wrote: > > > > > How does this interact with cells ? Can the cell API instances be upgraded > > independently of the cells themselves ? > > > > My ideal use case would be > > > > - It would be possible t

Re: [openstack-dev] [All][Keystone] Deprecation of the v2 API

2014-03-26 Thread Tim Bell
My assumption on the depreciation messages is that this is targeted at non-core OpenStack applications. OpenStack developer pressure should be established within the projects, not by overwhelming production clouds with logs that something is depreciated. Equally, asking locally developed inte

Re: [openstack-dev] [All][Keystone] Deprecation of the v2 API

2014-04-02 Thread Tim Bell
I’ve added the depreciation process to the section on meet the PTLs/TC for the Atlanta Ops unconference (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ATL-ops-unconference-RFC). Currently, it is difficult to tell how much a particular feature is being used and the impact of depreciation. Tim Sessions are

Re: [openstack-dev] Doc for Trove ?

2014-04-06 Thread Tim Bell
Anne, >From my understanding, Trove is due to graduate in the Juno release. Is documentation for developers, operators and users not one of the criteria (http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/incubation-integration-requirements) ? * Documentation / User support **

Re: [openstack-dev] Doc for Trove ?

2014-04-06 Thread Tim Bell
/install/yum/content/ ? Tim From: Anne Gentle [mailto:a...@openstack.org] Sent: 06 April 2014 20:33 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Glen Campbell; openstack-d...@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Doc for Trove ? On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Tim

Re: [openstack-dev] Doc for Trove ?

2014-04-06 Thread Tim Bell
My worry is that many deployers are waiting for programs to reach integrated before looking at them in detail. When something is announced as integrated, there is an expectation that the TC criteria are met. When there is no installation documentation or end user CLI or dashboard information,

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Dynamic scheduling

2014-04-11 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Laski [mailto:andrew.la...@rackspace.com] > Sent: 11 April 2014 16:38 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Dynamic scheduling > > On 04/10/14 at 11:33pm, Oleg Gelbukh wrote: > >Andrew,

Re: [openstack-dev] deliver the vm-level HA to improve the business continuity with openstack

2014-04-14 Thread Tim Bell
Can Heat control/monitor a VM which it has not created and restart it (potentially on a different hypervisor with live migration) ? Tim > -Original Message- > From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com] > Sent: 14 April 2014 19:21 > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re:

Re: [openstack-dev] deliver the vm-level HA to improve the business continuity with openstack

2014-04-14 Thread Tim Bell
4 at 10:56 -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > > On 04/14/2014 10:46 AM, Tim Bell wrote: > > > Can Heat control/monitor a VM which it has not created and restart it > > > (potentially on a different hypervisor with live migration) ? > > > > > > Tim > >

Re: [openstack-dev] nova-specs

2014-04-15 Thread Tim Bell
+2 I think that there is also a need to verify the user story aspect. One of the great things with the ability to subscribe to nova-specs is that the community can give input early, when we can check on the need and the approach. I know from the CERN team how the requirements need to be review

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] nova-specs

2014-04-16 Thread Tim Bell
As a native English speaker who works in two Francophone countries for an international organisation, I would suggest tolerance in this area. Where there are sufficient language difficulties that the blueprint is difficult to read and understand, this should be a -1. Where someone accidentally

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Performance tests of ceilometer-collector and ceilometer-api with different backends

2014-04-23 Thread Tim Bell
Joe, There are a number of problem reports on ceilometer performance and some promising blueprints to address them. I'd suggest we re-run the performance test when those are in place. Having reference performance tests such as this are helpful to pick up cases where there are regression or sca

Re: [openstack-dev] Thoughts on OpenStack Layers and a Big Tent model

2014-09-22 Thread Tim Bell
On 22 Sep 2014, at 20:53, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > On Sep 19, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >> Monty Taylor wrote: >>> I've recently been thinking a lot about Sean's Layers stuff. So I wrote >>> a blog post which Jim Blair and Devananda were kind enough to help me edit. >>> >>> h

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [All] API standards working group

2014-09-24 Thread Tim Bell
Seems like there is some overlap with the end user (i.e. consumer) working group at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/End_User_Working_Group Sounds like it would be worth discussing with them on how to focus on these needs. The scope of the end user is much larger than just the API but a consist

Re: [openstack-dev] Thoughts on OpenStack Layers and a Big Tent model

2014-09-27 Thread Tim Bell
Monty talking about this :) Comments > inline... > > On 09/22/2014 03:11 PM, Tim Bell wrote: > > The quality designation is really important for the operator community > > who are trying to work out what we can give to our end users. > > So, I think it's important to p

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] developer survey on contribution policies

2014-09-28 Thread Tim Bell
Alison, Can you give some more details on the survey with respect to OpenStack ? I have both a developer contribution policy survey and a project contribution policy survey. It would also be good to have more background as to the interest in obtaining the survey results and what you intend to

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [tc] Multi-clouds integration by OpenStack cascading

2014-09-30 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: John Garbutt [mailto:j...@johngarbutt.com] > Sent: 30 September 2014 15:35 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [tc] Multi-clouds integration by OpenStack > cascading > > On 30 September 2014 14

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Automatic evacuate

2014-10-14 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com] > Sent: 14 October 2014 19:01 > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Automatic evacuate > > On 10/13/2014 05:59 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: > > Nice timing. I was working on a blog post

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Maintenance mode in OpenStack during patching/upgrades

2014-10-20 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Aedo [mailto:d...@aedo.net] > Sent: 21 October 2014 04:45 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Maintenance mode in OpenStack during > patching/upgrades > ... > > Also, I would like

Re: [openstack-dev] [Summit] Coordination between OpenStack & lower layer virt stack (libvirt, QEMU/KVM)

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] > Sent: 21 October 2014 13:08 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Summit] Coordination between OpenStack & > lower layer virt stack (libvirt, QEMU/KVM)

Re: [openstack-dev] Taking a break..

2014-10-22 Thread Tim Bell
Chris, Thanks for your work on cells in OpenStack nova... we're heavily exploiting it to scale out the CERN cloud. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Chris Behrens [mailto:cbehr...@codestud.com] > Sent: 22 October 2014 19:37 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questio

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Cells conversation starter

2014-10-22 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Laski [mailto:andrew.la...@rackspace.com] > Sent: 22 October 2014 21:12 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Cells conversation starter > > > On 10/22/2014 12:52 AM, Michael Still wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] How can we get more feedback from users?

2014-10-23 Thread Tim Bell
Angus, There are two groups which may be relevant regarding ‘consumers’ of Heat -Application eco system working group at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Application_Ecosystem_Working_Group -API working group at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/API_Working_Group There are some d

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] How can we get more feedback from users?

2014-10-24 Thread Tim Bell
There is a formal structure via the OpenStack user committee and the associated working groups (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee). We have Monday afternoon and all of Thursday in the summit time dedicated to discussions. The specs review process was prepared w

Re: [openstack-dev] Travels tips for the Paris summit

2014-10-24 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Carl Baldwin [mailto:c...@ecbaldwin.net] > Sent: 24 October 2014 19:05 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Travels tips for the Paris summit > > +1 > > It would be great to know where to go in the a

Re: [openstack-dev] LTFS integration with OpenStack Swift for scenario like - Data Archival as a Service .

2014-11-14 Thread Tim Bell
There were some discussions over the past years. I raised the question of Swift tape support in my keynote in Boston in 2011 (http://www.slideshare.net/noggin143/cern-user-story) but there was limited interest. LTFS makes it more likely but we should not underestimate the challenges. Ensuring

Re: [openstack-dev] [swift] LTFS integration with OpenStack Swift for scenario like - Data Archival as a Service .

2014-11-17 Thread Tim Bell
hival as a Service . > > On 14.11.14 20:43, Tim Bell wrote: > > It would need to be tiered (i.e. migrate whole collections rather than > > files) and a local catalog would be needed to map containers to tapes. > > Timeouts would be an issue since we are often waiting hours for r

Re: [openstack-dev] [swift] LTFS integration with OpenStack Swift for scenario like - Data Archival as a Service .

2014-11-17 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Tim Bell [mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch] > Sent: 17 November 2014 19:44 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [swift] LTFS integration with OpenStack Swift for > scenario like - Data Arc

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][scheduler] Proposal: FairShareScheduler.

2014-06-30 Thread Tim Bell
Eric, Thanks for sharing your work, it looks like an interesting development. I was wondering how the Keystone token expiry is handled since the tokens generally have a 1 day validity. If the request is scheduling for more than one day, it would no longer have a valid token. We have similar sce

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][scheduler][keystone] Renewable tokens (was Proposal: FairShareScheduler.)

2014-07-01 Thread Tim Bell
ld advise how tokens could be renewed in such a scenario. Tim On 01/07/2014 08:46, Tim Bell wrote: > Eric, > > Thanks for sharing your work, it looks like an interesting development. > > I was wondering how the Keystone token expiry is handled since the tokens > generally have a 1 d

Re: [openstack-dev] Inter Cloud Resource Federation (Alliance)

2014-07-02 Thread Tim Bell
Will this work will be built to exploit the existing federated authentication and role mapping code in Icehouse ? Resource discover/access/provisioning is a natural next step but I hope it is built on the existing identity frameworks. Tim From: Tiwari, Arvind [mailto:arvind.tiw...@hp.com] Sen

[openstack-dev] [specs] how to continue spec discussion

2014-07-16 Thread Tim Bell
As we approach Juno-3, a number of specs have been correctly marked as abandoned since they are not expected to be ready in time for the release. Is there a mechanism to keep these specs open for discussion even though there is no expectation that they will be ready for Juno and 'defer' them to

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][rally] Application for a new OpenStack Program: Performance and Scalability

2014-07-22 Thread Tim Bell
As I mentioned on the review, the title could cause confusion. Rally tests performance and scalability but the title could lead people to think that if you install Rally, you will get Performance and Scale from your OpenStack instance. Adding Benchmark or Testing in to the description would cl

[openstack-dev] Medium Availability VMs

2013-09-19 Thread Tim Bell
Discussing with various people in the community, there seems to be interest in a way to - Identify when a hypervisor is being drained or is down and inventory its VMs - Find the best practise way of restarting that VM for hypervisors still available o Live migration

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