Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread Ricardo Makino
Hi Everyone, I have a doubt about what kind of software licensing you use to provide Microsoft instances in a IaaS environment, such like windows server instances. Regards, -- Ricardo Makino

Re: Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread Sean Hamilton
From memory, licensing your compute hosts as Microsoft Datacenter Edition then you can run unlimited Windows instances on that host. If you're worried about having to license every host in your cloud, you could look at host tags and see if you can ensure instances built with Windows Templates are

Re: Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread Ricardo Makino
Ok it's a good idea, but I don't need to run Windows Server as host (a.k.a hypervisor), right? Regards, -- Ricardo Makino On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.ukwrote: From memory, licensing your compute hosts as Microsoft Datacenter Edition then you can run

Re: Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread Sean Hamilton
No, the license is per processor on a physical host. We use VMware, but license each host for the instances. No Hyper-V here (just yet). On 11 February 2014 13:47, Ricardo Makino ricardo.n...@gmail.com wrote: Ok it's a good idea, but I don't need to run Windows Server as host (a.k.a

Re: KVM Snapshot issues

2014-02-11 Thread Tanner Danzey
Alright, will do. Thank you very much! Tanner Danzey Systems Engineer Northstar Technology Group tanner.dan...@northstar-tg.com arkan...@gmail.com (701) 237-9096 x7222 On Feb 9, 2014 8:59 PM, Dave Hoffman david.hoff...@appcore.com wrote: First thing I'm seeing at the top of the error log is

Re: Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread Ricardo Makino
Ok understood, thanks for the help! Regards, -- Ricardo Makino On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.ukwrote: No, the license is per processor on a physical host. We use VMware, but license each host for the instances. No Hyper-V here (just yet). On 11

Re: Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread Tim Mackey
If you want to host Windows VMs you should really look into the Microsoft Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program: http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/licensing/splabenefits.aspx From the FAQ : Microsoft SPLA is the only Microsoft Volume Licensing program that allows Microsoft

Re: dom0 configuration of Xenserver

2014-02-11 Thread Umair Azam
Matthew, Thank you so much for detailed information. Umair Azam On 2/11/2014 10:20 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: Hello, By default, XenServer automatically tunes the dom0 settings during installation. IIRC, on a 4G system, ~768MB gets allocated to dom0. The defaults should work just fine for

Re: Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread John Kinsella
I spent too much time researching this last year…I’d consider http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13090 to be the gold standard on explaining the topic in an understandable manner. On Feb 11, 2014, at 4:30 AM, Ricardo Makino ricardo.n...@gmail.commailto:ricardo.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I

Re: dom0 configuration of Xenserver

2014-02-11 Thread Matthew Kaufman
You're welcome, anytime :)! I am aiming to contribute in a lot more areas overall in many mailing lists. I usually just read. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Umair Azam ua...@i2cinc.com wrote: Matthew, Thank you so much for detailed information. Umair Azam On 2/11/2014 10:20 AM,

how to create a copy of a VM

2014-02-11 Thread Nordin, Lars P
It isn't crystal clear to me from the documentation how to do this - I'm most familiar with using VMWare ESX. If I understand correctly, the only way I can do this is to create a template from my existing VM and then create a copy from the template.

Re: how to create a copy of a VM

2014-02-11 Thread Nux!
On 11.02.2014 22:38, Nordin, Lars P wrote: It isn't crystal clear to me from the documentation how to do this - I'm most familiar with using VMWare ESX. If I understand correctly, the only way I can do this is to create a template from my existing VM and then create a copy from the template.

NFS machine not responding, timed out issue

2014-02-11 Thread Umair Azam
I am facing an error while setting up cloud system, following issue arises when management server machine requests hypervisor to launch CP/SS VM's. After this request hypervisor tries to contact primary storage to access storage but that primary storage server doesn't responds, following are

Re: NFS machine not responding, timed out issue

2014-02-11 Thread abhisek basu
Are we able to mount that NFS manually on the Xen Server? Sent from my iPhone On 12 Feb 2014, at 6:31 am, Umair Azam ua...@i2cinc.com wrote: I am facing an error while setting up cloud system, following issue arises when management server machine requests hypervisor to launch CP/SS VM's.

Re: NFS machine not responding, timed out issue

2014-02-11 Thread Umair Azam
Abhisek, Yes i am able to mount manually. I dont whats the problem i m stuck here for last 2 weeks :/ Umair Azam On 2/12/2014 7:22 AM, abhisek basu wrote: Are we able to mount that NFS manually on the Xen Server? Sent from my iPhone On 12 Feb 2014, at 6:31 am, Umair Azam ua...@i2cinc.com

Re: NFS machine not responding, timed out issue

2014-02-11 Thread Umair Azam
I am also getting following in hypervisor logs. Do you think its the issue with NIC of primary storage, well i can mount that filesystem manually /var/log/messages:Feb 11 08:16:40 xenserver-Host1 kernel: [ 3103.098811] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Down /var/log/messages:Feb 11 08:21:31

Re: NFS machine not responding, timed out issue

2014-02-11 Thread Shanker Balan
Comments inline. On 12-Feb-2014, at 9:09 am, Umair Azam ua...@i2cinc.com wrote: I am also getting following in hypervisor logs. Do you think its the issue with NIC of primary storage, well i can mount that filesystem manually /var/log/messages:Feb 11 08:16:40 xenserver-Host1 kernel: [

Problems with Cloudstack 4.2.1 installation

2014-02-11 Thread Giri Prasad
Hello All,  I have downloaded cloudstack 4.2.1 and trying to install it in my pc. The system config is : i3 processor, 8 gb ram, 500 gb hard disk, 1 nic card etc etc.  I have installed java and maven as follows: javac -version javac 1.7.0_51 mvn --version Apache Maven 3.1.1