Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread Joseph Bajin
I agree with all of these items especially with not having Vendor booths. The only thing I would want to mention is that it would be great to have something centrally located within the US, if we are going to choose the US for a session. That way it is only a 3-4 hour flight instead of a 7-9

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread Kris G. Lindgren
+1 (we had 2 people at the mid-cycle last time, so we would not have been impacted by this) When there are multiple 4+ breakout sessions going on at the same time and they are all (hopefully) relevant to you/your company? I would agree that if someone had 20+ people from a single company

Re: [Openstack-operators] Image Based Backups

2015-06-30 Thread Curtis
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Brendan Johnson bjohn...@paragusit.com wrote: What are people using to perform image based backups of Windows and Linux VMs in OpenStack? I am using KVM as the hypervisor, Ceph for block storage and Swift for object storage. I know Cinder can backup volumes

Re: [Openstack-operators] Image Based Backups

2015-06-30 Thread Jason Ford
This isn¹t completely inside of OpenStack, but you can use something like R1soft that is installed on an instance inside of your cloud then use that to connect to other instances to bare metal. We (BlackMesh) have then created a baremetal instance that ceph volumes can be attached to do full

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread Shilla Saebi
Tom, First off, thank you for organizing this event. It has proven to be a success and the growth shows how much interest there is in the community. A couple of ideas came to mind when I read your e-mail. What about breaking the event up into regions? Or having additional sponsors that are users

Re: [Openstack-operators] Image Based Backups

2015-06-30 Thread Mike Lowe
I use qemu-guest-agent inside of a vm and ensure that the mounts are noatime. You can then use the guest agent to issue a freeze and get consistent rbd snaps of the backing devices. Those snaps can be exported, preferably differentially to skip over the unused portions, off to some other

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread David Medberry
Hi Tom, et al, 1) I think corporate operators are fine sponsors (or as I prefer, underwriters) of the event. But with modest/token acknowledgement only of their largesse. * 2) No vendor booths. I'm fine with an Oprah sponsorship goodie bag on the chairs or at registration time, but nothing more

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread Joe Topjian
Hi Tom, I think this is a great problem to have. Difficult to solve, but it shows how popular / important these meetups are. I'm definitely in favor of a no booths type meetup. I feel if a company wants to sponsor, they're doing it out of good will and any recognition would come from that. I'd

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread David Medberry
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Joe Topjian j...@topjian.net wrote: I wouldn't be opposed to having a paid registration for the meetup. Could the amount be polled if paid registration is considered? We (TWC) is also in favor of having paid registration as well as a slush fund for

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread matt
+1 on the no booths rule. -1 on paid registration, I think we need to be mindful of the smaller openstack deployers, their voice is an important one, and their access to the larger operations teams is invaluable to them. I like the idea of local teams showing up because it's in the neighborhood

[Openstack-operators] [os-ansible-deployment] Feedback on Keystone Federation Spec

2015-06-30 Thread Jesse Pretorius
Hi everyone, There was quite a bit of fanfare around the new federation features in OpenStack Kilo. In the os-ansible-deployment/openstack-ansible project we've been putting together a view on how to implement federation with as little complexity as possible. We've been working on some

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread Jesse Keating
Hi Tom, thanks for bringing up the subject. Like many commenters I share some of the same views. I'm very +1 on preventing vendor booth space from happening. This isn't an event to sell a product, booth space would be wasted on both the attendees and the booth staff. I feel that multiple

Re: [Openstack-operators] Live Migration issues

2015-06-30 Thread David Medberry
If we have more than one live-migration occurring at a time, some will fail. Basically the concluding handshake won't complete. It's not clear if this is a contention issue, and issue in Juno (which has some well-documented messaging problems), or something else. These issues occur when trying to

[Openstack-operators] [os-ansible-deployment] new features needing reviewers

2015-06-30 Thread Kevin Carter
Hello all, The os-ansible-deployment/OpenStack-Ansible project is gearing up for a couple feature drops and looking for reviews from interested people within the greater deployer/operator/dev community to ensure that we're developing the features/support people are looking for. Ceilometer:

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread Mike Dorman
I pretty much agree with everyone so far. No vendor booths, distributed “underwriters”, modest registration fee, and sans evening event. Not sure separate regional meetings are a good idea, but would be in favor of alternating North America vs. other region, like the summits. I’ve been

Re: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup

2015-06-30 Thread Edgar Magana
Tom, In my opinion, we should not have booths at all. Actually, we should just only have Operators attending this meetup with a limit of three attendees by company. During the Philadelphia one I noticed that many of the attendees where from the same company and I do not believe those companies