Re: Really really confused about Cloudstack networking

2016-03-03 Thread Mario Giammarco
Simon Weller writes: > > I do agree that the docs are confusing, especially if you have a limited knowledge of networking concepts. > > In terms of the complexity, a lot of that has to do with the fact that every company has different service > requirements and ACS needs to be flexible enough t

Re: Really really confused about Cloudstack networking

2016-03-03 Thread Ron Wheeler
I have been using Linux and the Internet since the mid 1990s. There are still 3 consecutively numbered C class registered to me for different clients back in the days when c-class networks were given out from massive ranges of free numbers. I have set up small ISP operations for clients with mu

System VMs keeps failing to start

2016-03-03 Thread cloudstackhelp
Hi Ron and all, You mentioned that SVMs need to be started. I'm finding that my installation keeps looping the command "Creating system VMs (this may take a while)". Right now, it's done its 70th cycle (s-70-VM) and seems to want to keep going on until it crashes. I'm thinking I should j

Re: System VMs keeps failing to start

2016-03-03 Thread Ahmad Emneina
Hey Josh, Are you seeing the VM's being spun up on the backend (hypervisor)? If so, I'd imagine its a communication issue between the management server and the public interface on the system vm. If you use VLAN tagging for your public network, make sure the VLAN is trunked to your hypervisors in t

Re: System VMs keeps failing to start

2016-03-03 Thread cloudstackhelp
Nothing's being spun up on the HVs. I'm using separate networks for each component (public, management, guest, storage). They all have a dedicated NIC each. On the HVs it seems like CS created its own cloud link local network but the link status is Thanks Josh On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at

Re: System VMs keeps failing to start

2016-03-03 Thread Ahmad Emneina
Josh, can you share the logs off the management server. Namely: /var/log/cloudstack/management/management-server.log Post as much as you can to pastebin or similar. That'll help identify what part of the process is failing... Ahmad E > On Mar 3, 2016, at 12:44 PM, > wrote: > > > > Nothin

Re: System VMs keeps failing to start

2016-03-03 Thread cloudstackhelp
It's really huge. Which part am I looking for exactly? On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:38 PM -0800, "Ahmad Emneina" wrote: Josh, can you share the logs off the management server. Namely: /var/log/cloudstack/management/management-server.log Post as much as you can to pastebin or similar. Th

Re: System VMs keeps failing to start

2016-03-03 Thread Ahmad Emneina
If you see any exceptions, I'd ideally like to see a few hundred lines above and below. It might be easiest to stop the management service, rename the log file. Restart the service, observe the system vm's go through their life cycle... stop the management server and post that. Whatever works best

RE: Really really confused about Cloudstack networking

2016-03-03 Thread Sanjeev Neelarapu
Hi Ron, It would be helpful for all the users in the community if you can specify what changes needs to be done for the cloudstack documents to get way with the confusions about the networking. If you specify what problems you have faced while setting up the cloudstack that would also be helpfu