RE: storage overprovisioning

2013-07-24 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Hi Len, Some Background: There are two Storage 'measures', the actual storage 'used', and the storage 'allocated'. As an example let's assume you are using NFS, have 100GB of Primary Storage, and have set storage.overprovisioning.factor to 4 Because of the Over Provisioning Factor, your syste

RE: Does compute offering in basic network support network rate limit?

2013-07-24 Thread Sanjeev Neelarapu
Yes, basic network does support network rate limit in compute offering. -Original Message- From: WXR [mailto:1485739...@qq.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:03 AM To: users Subject: Does compute offering in basic network support network rate limit? I create a compute offering with 1M

Re: Console Proxy not starting

2013-07-24 Thread David Comerford
Can't say I'd support a separate log for each ssvm but a different log for each zone isn't a bad idea. Could be worth a feature request! Best regards, David Comerford Tel: +353 87 1238295 Email: davest...@gmail.com Website: http://dave.ie GPG key: http://gpg.dave.ie On 2

DHCP options for guest networks

2013-07-24 Thread David Comerford
Hi list, Does anyone know of a way to configure the DHCP pool for guest networks? I'm using a /24 for the Guest CIDR but I'd like the virtual router to only give out addresses for a certain range in that subnet say .10 to .200. Is this possible? Thanks! Best regards, David Comerford

Re: multiple ip addresses in zone

2013-07-24 Thread Murali Reddy
On 22/07/13 5:29 PM, "Valery Ciareszka" wrote: >>Not sure what you meant by 'combined' isolated and guest networks, but >>you >can have both 'isolated' and 'shared' networks co-existing in a zone. > >I created shared network - >http://thesuki.org/temp/ss/SS-20130722145047.png >Cloudstack treats i

RE: DHCP options for guest networks

2013-07-24 Thread Ram Ganesh
> -Original Message- > From: David Comerford [mailto:davest...@gmail.com] > Sent: 24 July 2013 16:23 > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: DHCP options for guest networks > > Hi list, > > Does anyone know of a way to configure the DHCP pool for guest networks? > I'm using a /24 for

Re: DHCP options for guest networks

2013-07-24 Thread David Comerford
Thanks for that. Great feature! I'm guessing it's not possible on versions prior to 4.2 by any other means? Best regards, David Comerford Tel: +353 87 1238295 Email: davest...@gmail.com Website: http://dave.ie GPG key: http://gpg.dave.ie On 24 July 2013 12:19, Ram Ganesh

Re:RE: Does compute offering in basic network support network rate limit??

2013-07-24 Thread WXR
But a vm which uses 1Mb/s network rate compute offering on my cloudstack can reach 100Mb/s inbound/outbound. The link rate of my network is 100Mb/s,I think the limit does not take effect. -- Original -- From: "Sanjeev Neelarapu"; Date: Wed, Jul 24, 2013 05:07

Why does cloudstack create a vm instance through compute offering?

2013-07-24 Thread WXR
Cloudstack is an Iaas platform,I think it should offer elastic compute resources. Creating a limited number of compute offerings previously and apply them to new vms is not a good idea.

Re: Why does cloudstack create a vm instance through compute offering?

2013-07-24 Thread David Comerford
Feel free to make a feature request and/or bug report with any suggests or ideas you have. It's a team effort friend - http://cloudstack.apache.org/contribute.html Best regards, David Comerford Tel: +353 87 1238295 Email: davest...@gmail.com Website: http://dave.ie GPG key

Re: Why does cloudstack create a vm instance through compute offering?

2013-07-24 Thread Kirk Jantzer
This is already an option. Lets say you have two compute offerings: Small (1 vcpu and 1gb ram) and Medium (2 vcpu and 2gb ram). You can simply change an instance from one to the other by powering off the instance and clicking on the 'change service offering' icon. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:08 AM,

Re: Why does cloudstack create a vm instance through compute offering?

2013-07-24 Thread WXR
Do you mean that I can post my request on JIRA? -- Original -- From: "David Comerford"; Date: Wed, Jul 24, 2013 08:16 PM To: "users"; Subject: Re: Why does cloudstack create a vm instance through compute offering? Feel free to make a feature request and/

RE: storage overprovisioning

2013-07-24 Thread Len Bellemore
Hi Geoff, That's a really great explanation. Thanks. One option then is to still use thin provisioning on the storage array, but not put in any kind of overprovisioning factor in Cloudstack. We could then give ourselves a fairly large volume on the array, and defer the monitoring of "real" u

Re: Why does cloudstack create a vm instance through compute offering?

2013-07-24 Thread David Comerford
You can create an issue of type Bug, Improvement or Wish if your serious about contributing some ideas or problems. Best regards, David Comerford Tel: +353 87 1238295 Email: davest...@gmail.com Website: http://dave.ie GPG key: http://gpg.dave.ie On 24 July 2013 13:29, WX

RE: storage overprovisioning

2013-07-24 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Hi Len, The only problem with your approach is that if your users created a bunch of 1TB Data Volumes (the default maximum) but put next to no data on them, with overprovisioning set to 1, the system will assume they all have 1TB of data allocated and it could mark the storage as full and preve

Re: Network offering Public IP

2013-07-24 Thread Dean Kamali
Hello everyone I have been trying to setup this public offering based on Geoff instructions. [image: Inline image 1] According to instructions when this offering is being used, it will spin a router which will not act as a router however it will only process DHCP/DNS requests. However when I en

RE: Network offering Public IP

2013-07-24 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Hi Dean, You will only see Network Offerings which have the Source Nat service enabled listed at that top level. You need to login as a Root Admin, then create the network from the Infrastructure > Zones > Your Zone Name > Physical Network > Your Network Name > Guest - Configure > Network Tab

Re: Network offering Public IP

2013-07-24 Thread Dean Kamali
Thank you, I have created the network, and then created an instance, the vm boots up, I check NICs tab, and I see an assignment of Public IP however the vm stuck at requesting IP for eth0 then the vm starts without IP. I don't see a new virtual router getting created for this network. Any ideas?

windows vm lost static ip config after xe-tools upgrade from 6.0.2 to 6.1

2013-07-24 Thread William Jiang
hello, we had a cloudstack with 4.1 management server and 6.1 xenserver hosts. For those xenserver host, I just upgraded them from 6.0.2 to 6.1. But when I try to upgrade windows vm xe-tools from 6.0.2 to 6.1, after reboot , all the network config was changed from static to dhcp, anyone see the s

RE: Network offering Public IP

2013-07-24 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Hi Dean I've just repeated the process, created an new Network Offering with only DHCP, DNS and User Data, then created a new network from it. I have just spun up a new VM, the VR came online with a randomly assigned IP from the Guest Network range and NO Public IP (as expected) Guest Instance

HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Indra Pramana
Dear all, I tried to shutdown one of my hypervisor hosts to simulate a server failure, and the HA is not working, all the VMs on the affected host is not started on another available host. I am using CloudStack 4.1.0 with KVM hypervisors and Ceph RBD for primary storage. My issue is similar to w

Re: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Chip Childers
Did you enable HA for your compute offering? On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Indra Pramana wrote: > Dear all, > > I tried to shutdown one of my hypervisor hosts to simulate a server > failure, and the HA is not working, all the VMs on the affected host is not > started on another available host. >

RE: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Is it running on KVM, we are seeing some real issue with HA simply not working on KVM. Regards Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] Sen

Cloudstack hardware and software requirements

2013-07-24 Thread Carlos - c2bsi
Good morning, We are a small company, based in Portugal. We like to have your help to design and implement the CloudStack here in our company, for internal testing and to provide some services to our customers with the quai and have some contracts already in requested this service. Melhores Cum

Re: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Indra Pramana
Hi Chip, Yes, "Offer HA" is set to "Yes" on all my compute offerings. Hi Geoff, Yes, I am using KVM. Is this a known issue and is there any solution to this problem? Looking forward to your reply, thank you. Cheers. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Geoff Higginbottom < geoff.higginbot...@s

Re: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Indra Pramana
Dear Chip, Geoff and all, I scrutinized the management server's logs during the time when I shutdown the host and the time when I turned the host back on. This is the management server's logs when the host is being shut down: http://pastebin.com/4wfV830Z During the time, I noted that there are

Re: Network offering Public IP

2013-07-24 Thread Dean Kamali
I have created a new networking offering and enabled (DHCP,VPN,user Data), but I'm unable to create a new work from it, because I can't see it in the drop down list. [image: Inline image 2] However it doesn't show up on here [image: Inline image 1] Any idea? On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:16 AM,

Re: Hosts in CloudStack's avoid set

2013-07-24 Thread Caleb Call
When I've seen this (and I've seen it a lot) I usually see that it thinks it's missed a ping and so it puts the host in an avoid set. I think the "health check" feature in CS needs a lot of work to be much more reliable. Sometimes if I let the host sit long enough, it will magically (there's n

Re: Hosts in CloudStack's avoid set

2013-07-24 Thread Prasanna Santhanam
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:34:58AM -0600, Caleb Call wrote: > When I've seen this (and I've seen it a lot) I usually see that it > thinks it's missed a ping and so it puts the host in an avoid set. > I think the "health check" feature in CS needs a lot of work to be > much more reliable. Sometimes

RE: Re:RE: Does compute offering in basic network support network rate limit?

2013-07-24 Thread Sanjeev Neelarapu
Hi, There is a global setting parameter called " vm.network.throttling.rate" , if this is set , the value in compute offering will be overwrite with this. For the rate limit value in compute offering to take effect, set the global paramet to 0 and restart management server. Btw network rate limi

RE: Cloudstack hardware and software requirements

2013-07-24 Thread Alex Huang
Hi Carlos, Welcome! We're always willing to help but do you have any specific questions? --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Carlos - c2bsi [mailto:carl...@c2bsi.pt] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:41 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Cloudstack hardware and software re

Migrate VM's from Hyper-V to XenServer in Cloud

2013-07-24 Thread iliyas shirol
Greetings ! I have almost 300 VM's (GNU/Linux + Windows) running on Hyper-V. I want to migrate all of them to a fresh private cloud built using Apache CloudStack 4.1 and Citrix XenServer 6.1. I've planned to use the following approach, 1. Shutdown the VM on Hyper-V and copy its VHD. 2. Import th

Re: Cloudstack hardware and software requirements

2013-07-24 Thread Dean Kamali
How many clients / budget ? Tell us more about your ISP / collocation . Number of server / storage ..etc On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Alex Huang wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > Welcome! We're always willing to help but do you have any specific > questions? > > --Alex > > > -Original Message--

Re: Migrate VM's from Hyper-V to XenServer in Cloud

2013-07-24 Thread Dean Kamali
Is xenserver 6.1 supported on CS 4.1? On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, iliyas shirol wrote: > Greetings ! > > I have almost 300 VM's (GNU/Linux + Windows) running on Hyper-V. I want to > migrate all of them to a fresh private cloud built using Apache CloudStack > 4.1 and Citrix XenServer 6.1. >

HA in CS 4.1

2013-07-24 Thread Kirk Jantzer
Can someone "explain like I'm 5" how HA in CS should work? I have 4.1 setup with XCP hosts. To simulate a host failure, I've hard powered off a host through iDRAC and CS doesn't seem to know about it, at all -- the instances still show as running, but I cannot connect to them, and the host shows as

Re: Migrate VM's from Hyper-V to XenServer in Cloud

2013-07-24 Thread iliyas shirol
Yes, it does. PFB the compatibility matrix for ACS-4.1, https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/cloudstack-41-compatibility-matrix.html On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Dean Kamali wrote: > Is xenserver 6.1 supported on CS 4.1? > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, iliyas shirol >wrote: > >

Re: HA in CS 4.1

2013-07-24 Thread Kirk Jantzer
2013-07-24 10:08:50,973 DEBUG [cloud.ha.AbstractInvestigatorImpl] (AgentTaskPool-16:null) host () cannot be pinged, returning null ('I don't know') 2013-07-24 10:08:50,973 DEBUG [cloud.ha.UserVmDomRInvestigator] (AgentTaskPool-16:null) could not reach agent, could not reach agent's host, returning

Re: Migrate VM's from Hyper-V to XenServer in Cloud

2013-07-24 Thread Dean Kamali
So ... storage migration is supported? On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM, iliyas shirol wrote: > Yes, it does. > > PFB the compatibility matrix for ACS-4.1, > > https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/cloudstack-41-compatibility-matrix.html > > > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Dean Kamali > wr

Re: Hosts in CloudStack's avoid set

2013-07-24 Thread Ahmad Emneina
I'll add onto Prasanna's email by saying avoid set is cleared on each deploy vm. So if youre seeing that a lot, there's issues elsewhere. Reading the log line by line when deploying is pretty helpful, you can see what hosts are available for initial deploy, as well as storage pools. Usually there i

Re: Cloudstack hardware and software requirements

2013-07-24 Thread Ahmad Emneina
what type of workloads to you foresee in your cloud? On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Dean Kamali wrote: > How many clients / budget ? Tell us more about your ISP / collocation . > > Number of server / storage ..etc > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Alex Huang wrote: > > > Hi Carlos, > >

Disallow users the ability to add templates/ISOs

2013-07-24 Thread Kirk Jantzer
I recall it being talked about in the past, but can't seem to find it. Is there a way to disallow users from being able to add their own templates/ISOs? -- Regards, Kirk Jantzer http://about.met/kirkjantzer

Re: Disallow users the ability to add templates/ISOs

2013-07-24 Thread Chip Childers
FWIW, I'm not sure about in the UI, but you can change the API's ACL for those commands within the commands.properties file to be root admin only. This will probably leave the UI with the buttons, but will always fail for the users. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Kirk Jantzer wrote: > I recal

Re: Disallow users the ability to add templates/ISOs

2013-07-24 Thread Kirk Jantzer
So, even if I were able to disable it for users in the UI, i'd still have to change the API ACL to completely disallow it? On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > FWIW, I'm not sure about in the UI, but you can change the API's ACL for > those commands within the commands.propert

Re: Disallow users the ability to add templates/ISOs

2013-07-24 Thread Chip Childers
Unless there is a setting somewhere that might do this for you completely, yeah. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Kirk Jantzer wrote: > So, even if I were able to disable it for users in the UI, i'd still have > to change the API ACL to completely disallow it? > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:58

RE: HA in CS 4.1

2013-07-24 Thread Paul Angus
Hi Kirk, I've seen this behaviour with KVM (I filed bug CloudStack-3535) but we've found XenServer works fine. There is a global setting (alert.wait) which is blank by default. This is the number of seconds CloudStack waits after it loses communication a host before doing anything. Blank some

Re: Disallow users the ability to add templates/ISOs

2013-07-24 Thread Alena Prokharchyk
There are just couple of template related global configs: allow.public.user.templates - If false, users will not be able to create public templates. max.template.iso.size - The maximum size for a downloaded template or ISO (in GB). You can set max.template.iso.size to 0, and user won't be able

Re: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Bryan Whitehead
This same thing happened to me - but it was a Power-Supply that died on a box. All my templates have HA turned on. All the VM's (including 1 system-router-vm) were shown as "Running" and the host itself was simply marked "Disconnected". When I tried to shutdown the VM's to start them again I got e

Re:RE: Re:RE: Does compute offering in basic network support network rate limit??

2013-07-24 Thread WXR
I set the vm.network.throttling.rate value to 0,restart the management service,and create a new vm with 1Mb/s compute offering.But the inbound and outbound network rate is still 100Bb/s. -- Original -- From: "Sanjeev Neelarapu"; Date: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 01:00

Re: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Chip Childers
This sucks. Can one of the folks on this thread please open a bug with as much information as possible? I'd like to make sure that someone picks up the issue and gets it resolved for the next release. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > This same thing happened to me - b

Re: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Bryan Whitehead
CLOUDSTACK-3535 bug looks like it is describing the problem perfectly. What else can we add? On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > This sucks. > > Can one of the folks on this thread please open a bug with as much > information as possible? I'd like to make sure that someone pi

Re: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Chip Childers
Nothing, looks good. (And thanks for opening it Paul) On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > CLOUDSTACK-3535 bug looks like it is describing the problem perfectly. > What else can we add? > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Chip Childers > wrote: > > This sucks. > > > > Ca

RE: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Koushik Das
There is another bug for the same. CLOUDSTACK-3421 This document nicely explains how HA works in Cloudstack https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/High+Availability+Developer's+Guide. As can be seen from the logs in this case, Cloudstack is not able to conclusively determine if t

RE: Re:RE: Re:RE: Does compute offering in basic network support network rate limit?

2013-07-24 Thread Sanjeev Neelarapu
Please file a bug in JIRA is it is not working as expected. -Original Message- From: WXR [mailto:1485739...@qq.com] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:03 AM To: users Subject: Re:RE: Re:RE: Does compute offering in basic network support network rate limit? I set the vm.network.throttling.r

Re:RE: Re:RE: Re:RE: Does compute offering in basic network support network rate limit??

2013-07-24 Thread WXR
I can't confirm if it is a bug or my configuration fault. Does any one succeed in limiting the network rate by compute offering? -- Original -- From: "Sanjeev Neelarapu"; Date: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 01:34 PM To: "users@cloudstack.apache.org"; Subject: RE: Re:RE: R

Re: HA not working - CloudStack 4.1.0 and KVM hypervisor hosts

2013-07-24 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Starting off, there is never going to be a way to "conclusively" decide if a host is down. This is just the nature of complex systems. We can only hope our software does "well" - and if "well" is "wrong" - we have a way to clean up the mess created. That said, I like the old behavior 3.0.x has. As

RE: DHCP options for guest networks

2013-07-24 Thread Saksham Srivastava
Although not recommended, but you could do this : In the cloud db, replace the 'cidr' value in the networks table with the new cidr value, corresponding to the guest-network . So the dhcp range for that network will be the new cidr value you specify. Thanks, Saksham -Original Message- Fr