Re: vCenter Patching - Stop Cloud Management Service?

2014-02-24 Thread Sean Hamilton
When I've patched vCenter servers in the past, the rough process I've followed is: If you can, disable the zone. Go to each cluster and click 'unmanage cluster' Update vCenter Go to each cluster and click 'manage cluster' Enable the zone. Allow CloudStack time to re-check the environment (a

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 Sean Hamilton
hypervisor), right? Regards, -- Ricardo Makino On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.uk wrote: 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

Can't start cloudstack-usage

2014-02-05 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hey guys, This morning our cloudstack-usage service fell over. When trying to start it with: sudo service cloudstack-usage start [same command I always use] I get this response: bash-4.1$ sudo service cloudstack-usage start Starting CloudStack Usage Monitor cloudstack-usage05/02/2014 04:19:54

Re: Not able to add primary Storage Cloudstack 4.3

2014-02-01 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi Tejas, What hypervisor are you using? I can't remember if CIFS is a valid protocol for hypervisors other than Hyper-V. NFS is used for other hypervisors. Cheers, Sean On 1 Feb 2014, at 09:26, Tejas Gadaria refond.g...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, While adding primary Storage I am getting

Re: Move running vm to project

2014-01-20 Thread Sean Hamilton
going to be migrate to that user and not to a project. Unless the 'master' account of a project has the ability to migrate its VMs to a specific project since it can be master in more than one project. On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.uk wrote: Isn't

Re: Move running vm to project

2014-01-20 Thread Sean Hamilton
and unfortunately it does not work Regards Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Sean Hamilton [mailto:s...@seanhamilton.co.uk] Sent: 20 January 2014 09:47 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org

Re: Change SCSI type in VMware

2014-01-17 Thread Sean Hamilton
let me know how it goes. Regards, Sateesh -Original Message- From: Sean Hamilton [mailto:s...@seanhamilton.co.uk] Sent: 16 January 2014 22:58 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Change SCSI type in VMware Thanks! On 16 January 2014 09:03, sebgoa run...@gmail.com

Re: Change SCSI type in VMware

2014-01-16 Thread Sean Hamilton
Thanks! On 16 January 2014 09:03, sebgoa run...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 15, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.uk wrote: It's out of my league too. Hope this comes in a release soon. I change the ticket to a 'Bug' and added 4.3 has a branch where the problem exists

Change SCSI type in VMware

2014-01-09 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi Guys, One of our users is trying to use Windows Server 2012 R2. On install they can't see the disk attached. I checked and it looks like Microsoft removed the LSI Logic Parallel driver from that OS. Changing the storage adapter to LSI Logic SAS should work (and does work in VMware). In

Re: Unable to execute PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand

2013-12-05 Thread Sean Hamilton
. Would you mind filing a bug for this please ? Thanks, -Nitin On 04/12/13 1:44 PM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.uk wrote: We're seeing a bug where cloudstack tries to spool a template from any secondary storage in any zone in a region to primary storage. DB selects show a rand

Re: Improving SSVM performance

2013-12-05 Thread Sean Hamilton
Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -Original Message- From: Sean Hamilton [s...@seanhamilton.co.uk] Received: Monday, 02 Dec 2013, 10:10pm To: users@cloudstack.apache.org [users@cloudstack.apache.org] Subject: Re: Improving SSVM performance Hey Simon, Is that done

Re: Unable to execute PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand

2013-12-04 Thread Sean Hamilton
We're seeing a bug where cloudstack tries to spool a template from any secondary storage in any zone in a region to primary storage. DB selects show a rand() at the end, it took a few attempts to get the template onto primary storage. Must be a bug. On 4 Dec 2013, at 13:23, John Skinner

Re: Improving SSVM performance

2013-12-02 Thread Sean Hamilton
(www.nitrodesk.com) -Original Message- From: Sean Hamilton [s...@seanhamilton.co.uk] Received: Friday, 29 Nov 2013, 4:10am To: users@cloudstack.apache.org [users@cloudstack.apache.org] Subject: Improving SSVM performance We run 4.2 with VMware hypervisor. We'd like to improve

Improving SSVM performance

2013-11-28 Thread Sean Hamilton
We run 4.2 with VMware hypervisor. We'd like to improve the SSVM performance, specifically when exporting and deploying templates. Does anyone have any guides on doing this at all? Thanks, Sean

Re: Reg: Resource limit bug in account

2013-11-26 Thread Sean Hamilton
Did you manage to file a bug? Can you share the link? On 26 November 2013 05:46, prak...@assistanz.com wrote: Hi, I have setup Primary Storage limits (GiB) -1 in cloudstack global setting and created account. It setup account limit as some -1074678 gb. This is major bug in resource

Re: Windows instance DNS entries being lost by AD DNS servers

2013-11-26 Thread Sean Hamilton
. Regards, Kirk Jantzer http://about.me/kirkjantzer On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.uk wrote: I've been experiencing this. From our experiences we've set the DNS servers on the instance to the IP addresses of the AD DNS servers. We also

Re: Windows instance DNS entries being lost by AD DNS servers

2013-11-25 Thread Sean Hamilton
I've been experiencing this. From our experiences we've set the DNS servers on the instance to the IP addresses of the AD DNS servers. We also set the DNS search suffix list to include the DNS suffix for the AD domain. We haven't had anyone complain recently... On 25 November 2013 15:17, Kirk

Re: stop VM and lost everything

2013-11-23 Thread Sean Hamilton
Did you un mount the ISO before stopping/starting your instance? Sounds like it's just trying to reinstall because your instance is booting from the ISO install media. On 23 Nov 2013, at 12:28, Du Jun dj199...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I booted a VM via ISO and then stoped it.When I start

Re: stop VM and lost everything

2013-11-23 Thread Sean Hamilton
informations in my VM. Would you please tell me how to prevent things from bad to worse?Many thanks! - Best regards, Frank 2013/11/23, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.uk: Did you un mount the ISO before stopping/starting your instance? Sounds like it's just trying to reinstall

Multiple simultaneous tasks in vCenter

2013-11-13 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi, We use VMware for our hypervisor layer and run 4.2.0. We've noticed that when a user creates a template from a volume, CloudStack creates a Exporting OVF template task in vCenter. This seems to stop any other commands from being issued into vCenter until this task has completed. Has anyone

VMware vCloud to CloudStack migration

2013-11-05 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi Guys, I have a user that is trying to export an instance from vCloud so that they can import into CloudStack. They've exported the .ova file which contains: - .ovf file - .vmdk file When they upload the template they get a deployment fail, I think that this is due to the metadata in the .ovf

Re: set hostname of vm

2013-10-21 Thread Sean Hamilton
Jerry, What OS type are you using? On 21 Oct 2013, at 04:47, Jerry Jiang jerry.ji...@sjcloud.cn wrote: Hi all, May I set the vm hostname automatically like what I want instead of uuid? JerryJiang

Re: Windows Server 2012

2013-10-11 Thread Sean Hamilton
im.vm.GuestOsDescriptor.GuestOsIdentifier.html. Thanks -min On 10/7/13 4:51 AM, Erdősi Péter f...@niif.hu wrote: Dear, 2013.10.07. 10:54 keltezéssel, Sean Hamilton írta: Does anyone know where the prerequisites are listed for running Windows Server 2012 in ACS 4.2? I think, this limitation

Windows Server 2012

2013-10-07 Thread Sean Hamilton
Does anyone know where the prerequisites are listed for running Windows Server 2012 in ACS 4.2? I'm running: vCenter 5.0 Update 1a vSphere hosts at 5.0 Update 2 I'm seeing that when I upload a 2012 template and mark it as that, the vms created have a guest OS type as Windows Server 2008 R2

Re: CS 4.2 - DC already managed issue

2013-09-26 Thread Sean Hamilton
11:28, Sean Hamilton wrote: Hey Gaspare, I had this issue too. It looks like 4.2 uses a custom field in vCenter to show it's managing that Datacenter. If you look at your vDC in vSphere, you should see cloud.zone which will be set to 'true'. If you want to remove the parameter just delete

Re: AWS interface in CloudStack 4.1.1 with Advanced Networking

2013-09-18 Thread Sean Hamilton
I checked the documentation. AWS interface only supports basic zone. Sorry! On 18 September 2013 09:46, Sebastien Goasguen run...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Richard Chatterton richard.chatter...@contegix.com wrote: Howdy, CloudStack users! I'm wanting to set up the

Re: 4.2 VMware memory overcommit

2013-09-10 Thread Sean Hamilton
. Can you please try with latest 4.2. -Harikrishna On 23-Aug-2013, at 9:38 PM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.uk wrote: Hey guys, I'm playing around with 4.2 and VMware vSphere (version 5.0). We're interested in memory overcommit, but the observed behaviour isn't what I expected

4.2 VMware memory overcommit

2013-08-23 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hey guys, I'm playing around with 4.2 and VMware vSphere (version 5.0). We're interested in memory overcommit, but the observed behaviour isn't what I expected. I'm seeing my instances being created in vCenter with a memory reservation that is equal to the configured memory. If I then change the

Re: How can Windows get hostname from dhcp?

2013-08-22 Thread Sean Hamilton
I don't use DHCP for this. I query the metadata for this: http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Admin_Guide/user-data-and-meta-data.html On 22 August 2013 16:27, Netsons Roberto Iervolino r.iervol...@netsons.com wrote: Hello, for Windows Server 2008r2 and

Network domain option and duplicate instance names

2013-08-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi all, I'm hoping that you could shed some light onto an issue I've been having. I have two zones in one region both zones have the same Network Domain setting of: zone1.local. I thought that this would be enough to stop instances with the same name being created in both zones, but it doesn't

Re: Network domain option and duplicate instance names

2013-08-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS On 19 Aug 2013, at 06:40, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.ukmailto: s...@seanhamilton.co.uk wrote: Hi all, I'm hoping that you could shed some light onto an issue I've been having. I have two zones in one region both zones have the same

Re: Windows License

2013-08-07 Thread Sean Hamilton
Look at using KMS (key management server) to handle licensing. On 7 Aug 2013, at 06:45, Ahmad Emneina aemne...@gmail.com wrote: You can probably have a windows license server and floating licenses if you're going to go heavy on the windows. You can also look at system center from microsoft.

Re: Unable to upload ISO for VM installation in

2013-07-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
Are you using the UI to upload the iso? What message are you seeing for the status? On 19 July 2013 11:23, Deepak Yadav deepak@gmail.com wrote: Dear Team I am using cloudstack 4.1. after cloud basic deployment. I want to upload an iso image. But fail to upload! I feel that is their

Re: Unable to upload ISO for VM installation in

2013-07-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
Sounds silly, but have you tried to download the .iso using your desktop browser? Just to make sure that it's a valid URL? On 19 July 2013 11:28, Deepak Yadav deepak@gmail.com wrote: connection refused ! Status : Not Ready On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Sean Hamilton s

Re: Cloudstack password enabled template

2013-06-28 Thread Sean Hamilton
The deployVirtualMachine API is an a-sync job. You'll need to use the ID returned to use queryAsyncJobResult to get the password. On 28 June 2013 12:32, Asmita Vagyani asmita.vagy...@sigma-systems.comwrote: The getVMPassword API doesnot return the password. If the VM is created using the ssh

Re: Password Reset Utility on Windows

2013-06-13 Thread Sean Hamilton
It might be that the service was in the stopped state when the image was created. This has got me a couple of times. You might want to try that one. Sean On 13 June 2013 17:17, Geoff Higginbottom geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.comwrote: Hi Len, Not seen this issue, and have rolled out many

Re: creating ESX instances with the vmxnet3 adapter

2013-05-10 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi Len, I specify the adapter type when I upload my template. In Cloudstack 3.0.5 there seems to be a bug in the UI where you have to specify a zone, then the options for adapter type are visible. Thanks, Sean On 10 May 2013 14:00, Len Bellemore len.bellem...@controlcircle.com wrote: Hi