Re: DHCP instance/vm issue

2019-07-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
Jesse: As Andrija said, this is a purely DHCP issue, has nothing to do with the CloudStack. We have a similar set up here , where both ACS VM instances and non-ACS servers exist on the same subnet, and they are served by separated DHCP servers (stock ISC dhcp server on RHEL). Here is how we

Re: Can't start systemVM in a new advanced zone deployment

2019-06-06 Thread Yiping Zhang
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Re: Can't start systemVM in a new advanced zone deployment

2019-06-05 Thread Yiping Zhang
;Sergey Levitskiy" wrote: Some operations log get transferred to vCenter log vpxd.log. It is not straightforward to trace I but Vmware will be able to help should you open case with them. On 6/5/19, 11:39 AM, "Yiping Zhang" wrote: Hi, Sergey:

Re: Can't start systemVM in a new advanced zone deployment

2019-06-05 Thread Yiping Zhang
client it would keep failing in ACS. Can you post vmkernel.log from your ESX host esx-0001-a-001? On 6/5/19, 8:47 AM, "Yiping Zhang" wrote: Well, I can always reproduce it in this particular vSphere set up, but in a different ACS+vSpher

Re: Can't start systemVM in a new advanced zone deployment

2019-06-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
using link clones. This can be done by this global setting and restarting management server vmware.create.full.clonefalse On 6/4/19, 9:57 AM, "Yiping Zhang" wrote: Hi, Sergey: Thanks for the help. By now, I have dropped a

Re: Can't start systemVM in a new advanced zone deployment

2019-06-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
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Re: Can't start systemVM in a new advanced zone deployment

2019-06-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
ry storage and try to spin up VM from it directly in vCenter. On 6/3/19, 5:41 PM, "Yiping Zhang" wrote: Hi, list: I am struggling with deploying a new advanced zone using ACS 4.11.2.0 + vSphere 6.5 + NetApp volumes for primary and secon

Can't start systemVM in a new advanced zone deployment

2019-06-03 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, list: I am struggling with deploying a new advanced zone using ACS 4.11.2.0 + vSphere 6.5 + NetApp volumes for primary and secondary storage devices. The initial setup of CS management server, seeding of systemVM template, and advanced zone deployment all went smoothly. Once I enabled the

Error running configureVirtualRouterElement api

2019-05-27 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, List: I am trying to run configureVirtualRouterelement API directly, but it throws an error. Is this a known bug in 4.11.2.0? I am using the cs python client to run api’s. Following are the command outputs: # cs listNetworkServiceProviders name=VirtualRouter

Re: questions on cloudstack and VMware hypervisors

2019-05-22 Thread Yiping Zhang
tions before running this as a normal bash script. Regards, Dag Sonstebo Cloud Architect ShapeBlue On 22/05/2019, 06:31, "Yiping Zhang" wrote: Hi, all: I am creating a new CloudStack 4.11.2.0 instance with VMware hypervis

questions on cloudstack and VMware hypervisors

2019-05-21 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: I am creating a new CloudStack 4.11.2.0 instance with VMware hypervisors. I have some general questions regarding such a set up: My first attempt had some errors, so I decided to blow away the CloudStack database and start from scratch again. Now when I try to add VMware datacenter

Re: ACS management server running out of loop back devices

2019-04-24 Thread Yiping Zhang
ral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue -Original Message- From: Yiping Zhang Sent: 24 April 2019 18:42 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: ACS management server running out of loop back devices Hi, My lab ACS server (ver

ACS management server running out of loop back devices

2019-04-24 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, My lab ACS server (version 4.11.2.0) recently starts to die off a few hours after a restart, with following error message in the log: 2019-04-24 10:38:35,237 INFO [c.c.s.ConfigurationServerImpl] (main:null) Processing updateKeyPairs 2019-04-24 10:38:35,237 INFO

Re: CloudStack affinity group and vSphere DRS

2019-03-28 Thread Yiping Zhang
9 at 21:10, Yiping Zhang wrote: > Hi, All: > > I started playing with vSphere 6.5 hypervisors under ACS 4.11.2.0 in our > lab and have some questions on this set up. > > According to release notes, VMware DRS support in CloudStack was ad

CloudStack affinity group and vSphere DRS

2019-03-28 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, All: I started playing with vSphere 6.5 hypervisors under ACS 4.11.2.0 in our lab and have some questions on this set up. According to release notes, VMware DRS support in CloudStack was added in ACS 4.4.4 (here:

Re: how to run rhel 6.x VM as PV VM on xenserver 7.1CU1?

2019-01-31 Thread Yiping Zhang
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Re: how to run rhel 6.x VM as PV VM on xenserver 7.1CU1?

2019-01-29 Thread Yiping Zhang
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Re: Possible bug fix - sanity check please

2019-01-24 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, Jon: Would you please describe this bug a little more? How do I reproduce it? Is there a Jira or Github issue number for it? It sounds like a bug in 4.11.2.0 affecting VM live migration. I am in the middle of upgrading to 4.11.2.0, and on my lab system I see that the line 488 of file

what happened to /dev/xvdd in my instance?

2018-12-06 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, All: I am working on a script to handle data disks. So, I added a few data disks to my instance. Then I noticed that in listVolumes api output, the third data disk actually has a deviceid 4, instead of 3 as I would expect. Sure enough, in the guest OS, I see three data disks as

Re: number of cores

2018-11-19 Thread Yiping Zhang
lose track of actual allocated and available resources very quickly until you restart all your instances. Yiping On 11/19/18, 3:59 PM, "Eric Lee Green" wrote: On 11/19/18 3:47 PM, Yiping Zhang wrote: > Eric: > > What's your value for global setting cpu.over

Re: number of cores

2018-11-19 Thread Yiping Zhang
Eric: What's your value for global setting cpu.overprovisioning.factor? I have this value set to 3.0. Right now, one of my servers with 32 cores @ 2.0 GHz (with HT enabled), I can allocate a total of 79 vCPU and 139 GHz to 26 VM instances. That's over 200% over provisioning! Yiping On

Re: primary storage best practices?

2018-11-16 Thread Yiping Zhang
ure design must fit every kind of cloud use case, not only yours. пт, 16 нояб. 2018 г., 13:10 Yiping Zhang yzh...@marketo.com: > It sounds like we have an enhancement/feature request here: to be able to > specify primary storage device where the new image to be

Re: primary storage best practices?

2018-11-16 Thread Yiping Zhang
th editing storage tags on storage_pool via SQL (scheduled job), in order to "rotate" list of available storage pools...) Cheers On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 23:01, Yiping Zhang wrote: > Hi, all: > > At my site, our currently practice is to

primary storage best practices?

2018-11-15 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: At my site, our currently practice is to have only one primary storage device for each CloudStack cluster, serving up to 500 disk volumes with total of 10 – 20TB disk space. Now, we are replacing old NetApp clusters with new ones and moving to SSD disks, so I need to recreate all my

Re: 4.9 to 4.11 upgrade broken

2018-10-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
Gosh, I just encountered exactly the same problem! If I understand this thread correctly, the root cause is that the document contains wrong url for systemvm template to download, it points to 4.11.0 version instead of 4.11.1 version of templates for all hypervisors! If so, why hasn’t anyone

vCPU priority setting for Xen VM

2018-06-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: I am trying to find out more info about VM’s vCPU priority settings on XenServer. I noticed that my VM instances have various vCPU weight associated with them, even for instances using the same service offering. I am wondering how does CloudStack set vCPU priority for VM instances?

Re: How exactly does CloudStack stop a VM?

2018-06-06 Thread Yiping Zhang
it should detect the shutdown sent via XAPI. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Yiping Zhang wrote: > We are using XenServers with our CloudStack instances. > > On 6/6/18, 3:11 PM, "Jean-Francois Nadeau" > wrote: > > On KVM,

Re: How exactly does CloudStack stop a VM?

2018-06-06 Thread Yiping Zhang
ce running in the guest OS. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Yiping Zhang wrote: > Hi, all: > > We have a few VM instances which will hang when issue a Stop command from > CloudStack web UI or thru API calls, due to the app’s own startup/stop

How exactly does CloudStack stop a VM?

2018-06-06 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: We have a few VM instances which will hang when issue a Stop command from CloudStack web UI or thru API calls, due to the app’s own startup/stop script in guest OS was not properly invoked. The app’s startup/stop script works properly if we issue shutdown/reboot command in guest OS

Re: 4.11 without Host-HA framework

2018-05-23 Thread Yiping Zhang
I can say for fact that VM's using a HA enabled service offering will be restarted by CS on another host, assuming there are enough capacity/resources in the cluster, when their original host crashes, regardless that host comes back or not. The simplest way to test VM HA feature with a VM

can't start guest VM assigned with new empty affinity group

2018-04-27 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, list: My user is creating a bunch of guest VM instances using affinity groups and we started to see InsufficientServerCapacityException errors and new VM instances won’t start, even though this is for a newly created empty affinity group and both my clusters have plenty of CPU/Memory/IP

[Solved] Re: PV vs HVM guest on XenServer 7.0

2018-04-12 Thread Yiping Zhang
uests regardless Xen hypervisor versions (I only verified on XenServer 6.5 and 7.0). Yiping On 4/11/18, 2:31 PM, "Yiping Zhang" <yzh...@marketo.com> wrote: Hi, list: I am in the process of upgrading my hypervisors clusters from XenServer 6.5 to 7.0 for all my ACS in

PV vs HVM guest on XenServer 7.0

2018-04-11 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, list: I am in the process of upgrading my hypervisors clusters from XenServer 6.5 to 7.0 for all my ACS instances. My XS 7.0 clusters are patched up to XS70E050. During cluster rolling upgrade, VM instances are live migrated several times, eventually all of them running on XS 7.0 hosts.

Re: upgraded XenServer host stays in Alert state

2018-03-27 Thread Yiping Zhang
- Original Message - From: "Yiping Zhang" <yzh...@marketo.com> To: "users" <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 11:47:24 PM Subject: upgraded XenServer host stays in Alert state H

Re: upgraded XenServer host stays in Alert state

2018-03-27 Thread Yiping Zhang
k.com/wavecom.ee - Original Message - From: "Yiping Zhang" <yzh...@marketo.com> To: "users" <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 11:47:24 PM Subject: upgraded XenServer host stays in Alert state Hi, all:

upgraded XenServer host stays in Alert state

2018-03-26 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: I am upgrading my ACS clusters from XenServer 6.5 to XenServer 7.0. I am on ACS version 4.9.3.0. On this ACS instance, I have another fully functioning XenServer 7.0 cluster already. This time, after I upgraded the pool master, it remains in “Alert” state, while all the slave

RE: EOL for supported OSes & Hypervisors

2018-01-16 Thread Yiping Zhang
From end user’s perspective, listing just OS, hypervisor version’s EOL status is only half the story. We need also to consider Apache CloudStack’s own EOL status to help users chose which combination of OS/Hypervisor/ACS versions to deploy for a stable and fully supported environment. For

Re: why instance must be stopped in order to update its affinity groups?

2018-01-12 Thread Yiping Zhang
teering to write it? Kind regards, Paul Angus paul.an...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue -Original Message- From: Yiping Zhang [mailto:yzh...@marketo.com] Sent: 11 Ja

newly installed clondmonkey 5.3.3 won't run

2018-01-11 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, there: I just installed the latest cloudmonkey (version 5.3.3) with pip on a RHEL 6.7 VM, but when I run it, it throws a stack trace: # pip install cloudmonkey DEPRECATION: Python 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team, please upgrade your Python. A future version of pip will

Re: why instance must be stopped in order to update its affinity groups?

2018-01-11 Thread Yiping Zhang
can then > properly decide where it can/should go. > > > > Kind regards, > > Paul Angus > > paul.an...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > @shapeblue

why instance must be stopped in order to update its affinity groups?

2018-01-10 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, List: Can someone please explain why a VM instance must be in stopped state when updating its affinity group memberships? This requirement is in “Feature assumptions” section of the original 4.2 design document

[SOLVED] Re: How to modify Pod start/end IP ?

2017-10-25 Thread Yiping Zhang
o Cloud Architect ShapeBlue On 25/10/2017, 01:28, "Yiping Zhang" <yzh...@marketo.com<mailto:yzh...@marketo.com>> wrote: Hi, all: In ACS web GUI, on the Pod Details page, the fields “Start IP” and “End IP” are editable. This IP range is re

How to modify Pod start/end IP ?

2017-10-24 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: In ACS web GUI, on the Pod Details page, the fields “Start IP” and “End IP” are editable. This IP range is reserved for systemVM’s (SSVM/CPVM). When I built my ACS environments three years ago, I gave this a large range without fully understanding what it is for. Now I am short of

Re: Retiring OLD Primary Storage - Dealing with System VMs and (assumed) Snapshot related artifacts

2017-06-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
Maybe off topic, but the subject of storage migration (both for primary and secondary storage devices) comes up once every few months on this list. I am really surprised that there is still NO official documentation on how to do this properly, or an SOP for users to follow. I went through the

Re: SSVM NIO SSL Handshake error

2017-05-23 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, Jason: By any chance, did your “full update” happen to also update your java version to IBM java? Yiping From: Jason Kinsella Reply-To: "users@cloudstack.apache.org" Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 7:19 AM To:

Re: Unable to start a VM due to insufficient capacity

2017-04-24 Thread Yiping Zhang
When you say there is enough resources on hosts, exactly what’s memory and cpu allocation on each of the hosts? Unless you have updated following global settings, the default settings are to disable VM allocation if cluster’s overall CPU or memory allocation is over 75%, and you will get

Re: vm.network.throttling.rate changed from 200 to 1000 but VMs are still limited to 200

2017-03-06 Thread Yiping Zhang
After this change, you need to stop and start your VM from GUI or via api calls. On 3/6/17, 1:46 PM, "Nezar Madbouh" wrote: Hi, I changed vm.network.throttling.rate from 200 to 1000 but when I run iperf between 2 VMs the maximum speed I get is

Question on host metrics (ACS version 4.8.0)

2017-01-26 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, I am looking at “Home > Infrastructure > Clusters > Cluster Metrics > Hosts Metrics >” page, and I am confused by the values in the column for used CPU. My hosts (running XenServer 6.5 SP1) have 32 cores with total of 83.10 GHz per host. On average, the CPU allocation is >100% for all

Xen hypervisor question

2017-01-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, This is a Xen Server question, but since it is part of my ACS setup, I hope Xen Server experts on this list can provide some help. Every month or so, one of my Xen Server pool (6.5 SP1 with most of patches are installed) with ten hypervisor nodes will go crazy: in CS, only the pool master

Re: AW: API migrateVirtualMachine does not respect affinity group assignment

2016-11-11 Thread Yiping Zhang
gt; (615) 312-6068 > > -Original Message- > From: Yiping Zhang [yzh...@marketo.com] > Received: Tuesday, 08 Nov 2016, 8:03PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org [users@cloudstack.apache.org] > Subject: API migrateVirtualMachine does not respect affinit

API migrateVirtualMachine does not respect affinity group assignment

2016-11-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, It seems that the API migrateVirtualMachine does not respect instance’s affinity group assignment. Is this intentional? To reproduce: Assigning two VM instances running on different hosts, say v1 running on h1 and v2 running on h2, to the same affinity group. In GUI, it won’t let you

updating network throttling rate

2016-10-25 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, I have updated global settings for network.throttling.rate and vm.network.throttling.rate from 200 to 500 Mbps, and restarted mgmt. service. Now I restarted two of my test VM instances, but using iperf3 I still see these two test VM instances got 200 Mbps network bandwidth. What else do

Re: CloudStack Anti-Affinity

2016-10-06 Thread Yiping Zhang
Starting a VM instance will end in error if there is no host suitable for it. We normally limit number of VM in an affinity group to be one less than the number of hosts in the cluster. Let’s say I have 5 instances for my app, and I have 5 hosts in my cluster. I will only put 4 instances in

Re: Adding Hosts to XenCenter Pool

2016-09-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
my port channel won't come up. Jeremy -Original Message- From: Yiping Zhang [mailto:yzh...@marketo.com] Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 12:56 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Adding Hosts to XenCenter Pool Is the xen4 config show

Re: Adding Hosts to XenCenter Pool

2016-09-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
k. http://screencast.com/t/LNPu9XchUU You can see Xen3's config and Xen4 Xen3 is pool master. I need to add Xen4 and more still same error. Jeremy -Original Message- From: Yiping Zhang [mailto:yzh...@marketo.com] Sent: Thursday, Sept

Re: Adding Hosts to XenCenter Pool

2016-09-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
The problem is that for Xen1 and Xen2, the mgmt. interface is NIC4, while for Xen3, the mgmt. interface is Bond4+5. According to docs, incoming server should not have any bond configurations, it will automatically get those from the pool once it becomes a pool member. What you need to do is

Re: All Xen hosts except poolmaster stuck in alerting/connecting state

2016-09-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
same problem,one Pool get in connecting or Alert state. The configuration is the same. > On Sep 7, 2016, at 17:50, Yiping Zhang <yzh...@marketo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > In one of our xen clusters, all host except the pool master are s

All Xen hosts except poolmaster stuck in alerting/connecting state

2016-09-07 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, In one of our xen clusters, all host except the pool master are stuck in alerting or connecting state. There are no scary log entries in catalina.out or management-server.log. I have tried to restart management service already, but it has no effect. What other steps can I take? I am

Re: Cloudstack - volume migration between clusters (primary storage)

2016-08-30 Thread Yiping Zhang
I think the work is mostly performed by the hypervisors. I had seen following during storage live migration in XenCenter: Highlight the primary storage for the departing cluster, then select the “Storage” tab on the right side panel. You should see disk volumes on that primary storage. The

Re: Mess after volume migration.

2016-08-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
I encountered the same problem a few months ago. With help from this list, I fixed my problems without any data loss, and posted my solution on the list. If you search the following subject line “corrupt DB after VM live migration with storage migration”, you should see my posts. Good luck

Re: Migrate vm from local storage to shared - change service offering

2016-07-05 Thread Yiping Zhang
Before staring the VM, you should also switch service offering of the migrated VM in UI, pick one using “shared” storage instead of “local” storage. On 7/5/16, 12:21 AM, "cs user" wrote: Hi Shweta, That's interesting. Yep with 4.5.2 I am able to power down a vm, and

Re: Can't stop mgmt server cleanly for CS 4.8.0

2016-06-10 Thread Yiping Zhang
RHEL 6.7 / java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.85-2.6.1.3 / tomcat6-6.0.24-90 On 6/10/16, 12:49 PM, "Marc-Andre Jutras" <mar...@marcuspocus.com> wrote: >which java / tomcat / centos version you're running on ? > > >On 2016-06-10 3:41 PM, Yiping Zhang wrote: >> Hi, all: &

Can't stop mgmt server cleanly for CS 4.8.0

2016-06-10 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: We have a cron job to restart mgmt. service once a week. However, after we upgraded to CS 4.8.0, the cron job would leave the service stopped and Nagios starts to page oncall. We traced the problem to that the mgmt. service won’t stop cleanly, even when we try to stop it manually

Re: cloudmonkey config file get reset to default settings

2016-05-26 Thread Yiping Zhang
in mutliple terminals in parallel - i've seen >cloudmonkey mess up the config for one of open profiles. > >Specifically, the URL of cloudstack in profile1 might be changed with >url of cloudstack in profile2. > >Rohit, is there a reason why cloudmonkey tries to update the sett

cloudmonkey config file get reset to default settings

2016-05-24 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, We have a few scripts that use cloudmonkey to talk to CloudStack server. The scripts are invoked by Puppet once per hour. However, every once a while, the /root/.cloudmonkey/config file would be over written with default settings. That is, blank apikey/secretkey, default password,

[SOLVED]: corrupt DB after VM live migration with storage migration

2016-05-05 Thread Yiping Zhang
f this problem and how can I avoid it in the future. Have a good day, all. Yiping On 5/4/16, 11:25 PM, "Yiping Zhang" <yzh...@marketo.com> wrote: >Thanks, it’s a good idea to back up those “removed” disks first before >attempting DB surgery! > > > > >On 5/4/

Re: [Urgent]: corrupt DB after VM live migration with storage migration

2016-05-05 Thread Yiping Zhang
to false. That might prevent your >>> disks from being purged. You might also look to export those volumes, or >>> copy them to a safe location, out of band. >>> >>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Yiping Zhang <yzh...@marketo.com> wrote: >>> >&

Re: [Urgent]: corrupt DB after VM live migration with storage migration

2016-05-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
, the cloudstack may kick off a storage cleanup job to remove them from new cluster’s primary storage before I can get the fixes in. Is there a way to temporarily disable storage cleanups ? Yiping On 5/4/16, 3:22 PM, "Yiping Zhang" <yzh...@marketo.com> wrote: >Hi, all: >

[Urgent]: corrupt DB after VM live migration with storage migration

2016-05-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: I am in a situation that I need some help: I did a live migration with storage migration required for a production VM instance from one cluster to another. The first migration attempt failed after some time, but the second attempt succeeded. During all this time the VM instance is

Re: AW: API deploy virtualmachine failed with custom offering

2016-03-23 Thread Yiping Zhang
That syntax worked for me (CS 4.5.1, cloudmonkey 5.3.1). Can you create a VM in UI, using the same zone/domain/template/network/serviceoffering selections as used in your API call? I suspect that your combined selections are not valid, for example: template/network is not available to the

Re: XenServer cluster size

2016-03-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
ck supports Dundee (and neither does Citrix at >the moment). > >-tim > >On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Yiping Zhang <yzh...@marketo.com> wrote: > >> Hi, Tim: >> >> Thanks for very detailed reply. >> >> These are Gen8 HP blades and all my new ser

Re: XenServer cluster size

2016-03-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
>On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Ahmad Emneina <aemne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> IIRC, its just a recommendation. I think it stemmed from performance >> impact, due to numerous VLAN's present, in environments with lots of >> tenants. >> >> On Tue, Mar 8

working with over provisioning factors

2016-03-02 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, I have to change the global and cluster setting memory.overprovisioning.factor for one of clusters with hundreds of running VM instances. Now, in order for the changes to take effect, I need to restart all running instances. I am wondering is there a way to update all running VM

Re: R: A Story of a Failed XenServer Upgrade

2016-01-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
rget the attachment ... > > > >Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung > > >---- Messaggio originale >Da: Yiping Zhang <yzh...@marketo.com> >Data: 08/01/2016 18:44 (GMT+01:00) >A: users@cloudstack.apache.org >Oggetto: Re: A Story of a Failed XenServer Upgrade >

Re: A Story of a Failed XenServer Upgrade

2016-01-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
veryone can benefit? :) >> >> Lucian >> >> -- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> Nux! >> www.nux.ro >> >> - Original Message - >> > From: "Yiping Zhang" <yzh...@marketo.com> >&

Re: R: A Story of a Failed XenServer Upgrade

2016-01-08 Thread Yiping Zhang
Since I can’t use attachment, I just include the doc in the message. Hopefully, the indentations and formats will go through properly. Yiping -- XenServer pool manual upgrade from 6.2 to 6.5 using ISO Reference article for upgrading XenServer pool used for Cloudstack

Re: A Story of a Failed XenServer Upgrade

2016-01-07 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, Alessandro Late to the thread. Is this still an issue for you ? I went thru this process before and I have a step by step document that I can share if you still need it. Yiping On 1/2/16, 4:43 PM, "Ahmad Emneina" wrote: >Hi Alessandro, >Without seeing the logs,

Re: SSVM and CPVM

2015-11-24 Thread Yiping Zhang
Which version of OS and java are you using ? We had encountered a similar error before. AFAICT, we were running RHEL 6.5 and CS 4.3.2 at the time on a newly setup management server. The java version installed was IBM version when we saw this error. Once we changed java package back to

Re: [Proposal] Template for CloudStack API Reference Pages

2015-11-11 Thread Yiping Zhang
As a user who uses API a lot, I would like to see following improvements in api reference pages: 1) In brief description for Title section, please specify if the referenced API is async or not. Currently, this info is available only on the API listing pages with “(A)” after the api name, but

Re: problem assigning an instance to a different account in a different domain

2015-11-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
The api assignVirtualMachine is for this exact purpose. It seems even to be able to move virtual machines into different zones (I never tried this, since I have only one zone) However, there are some limitations: it does not support advanced networking with SecurityGroup enabled. Since I did

Re: problem assigning an instance to a different account in a different domain

2015-11-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
er that I tried to use that method once, but that did not work and I >had to do the change manually. > >On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Yiping Zhang <yzh...@marketo.com> wrote: > >> The api assignVirtualMachine is for this exact purpose. It seems even to >> be able to move

Re: how to assign an instance to a different project ?

2015-11-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
rk >> association for that VM. >> >> Regards, >> Somesh >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Yiping Zhang [mailto:yzh...@marketo.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 2:43 PM >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: how to

how to assign an instance to a different project ?

2015-11-03 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, I need to move some instances from project-1 in domain-1 to project-2 in domain-2. But I can’t find any API to do so. The API “assignVirtualMachine” can move instances between accounts (in the same or different domains), but it does not work with projects. If there is an API to move an

Re: Unable to put host into maintenance mode. Unable to migrate VM

2015-10-30 Thread Yiping Zhang
Some more considerations: How much free CPU, memory resources are available on your remaining hypervisors ? If your XenServer pool resource usages are near to their maximum limits, putting one hypervisor into maintenance could very well push the usage over the limits for remaining

Re: XenServer is disconnected after CS hosts shutdown

2015-07-29 Thread Yiping Zhang
Well, sometimes people can’t answer a question because of lack of relevant information, or simply because no one has encountered a similar situation before. Looking at your past messages on this thread, there were no mentions about primary storage. Obviously, your primary storage configuration

Re: number of expected tcp connections to RabbitMQ cluster

2015-07-17 Thread Yiping Zhang
@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: number of expected tcp connections to RabbitMQ cluster On 17-Jul-2015, at 12:27 am, Yiping Zhang yzh...@marketo.commailto:yzh...@marketo.com wrote: Hi, all: We are in the process of upgrading our CloudStack from 4.3.2 to 4.5.1. I just noticed

number of expected tcp connections to RabbitMQ cluster

2015-07-16 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: We are in the process of upgrading our CloudStack from 4.3.2 to 4.5.1. I just noticed that for CS 4.3.2, there are two TCP connections from cloudstack-management java process to RabbitMQ cluster, but for CS 4.5.1 there is only one TCP connection to RabbitMQ cluster. Can someone

[Urgent]: xenserver hosts stuck in alert state after 4.3.2 - 4.5.1 upgrade

2015-07-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: We just did an upgrade from CS 4.3.2 - 4.5.1. Our environment is rhel 6 + Adv. Zone with SecurtyGroup + XenServer 6.2. After the upgrade, all xenserver hosts were in alert state and MS can’t connect to them with following errors: INFO [c.c.h.x.r.CitrixResourceBase]

Re: [Urgent]: xenserver hosts stuck in alert state after 4.3.2 - 4.5.1 upgrade

2015-07-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
anything? (Sorry for dumb question) Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original Message - From: Yiping Zhang yzh...@marketo.com To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Sent: Thursday, 9 July, 2015 19:22:01 Subject: [Urgent]: xenserver hosts stuck

ghost volumes belonging to a project

2015-04-09 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, We always create VM instances in project context, so that all resources are assigned to project instead of individual accounts. I have a script to call listProjects API to show project’s resource limits and current usages. Recently, I noticed that for a couple of projects, my script

inventory storage volumes on primary storage

2015-03-31 Thread Yiping Zhang
HI, all: I am doing an inventory of all vhd files on my primary storage device. I have only eight active VM instances, but I have 43 vhd files on file system. Running cmd “xe vdi-list” on XenServer provides infor on all vhd files. From the output, I can tell that “name-label” field

customize DNS domain names

2015-03-11 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, All: I have been reading on CS admin guide (latest one is for 4.2.0) about customizing DNS domains : https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.0/html/Admin_Guide/customizing-dns.html After trying it out, I came to the conclusion that this section applies only to

Re: host global config

2015-03-06 Thread Yiping Zhang
If you CloudStack manager is multi-homed, the CloudStack will populate host global settings var with IP address of the interface that is on the same network as your default gateway on your mgr node. If this IP is not your (cloudstack) management interface IP, then you need to change host value,

Re: how to assign an AffinityGroups to VM instances belonging to a project

2015-03-05 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, Rene: Thanks, much appreciated. Yiping On 3/5/15, 6:04 AM, Rene Moser m...@renemoser.net wrote: Hi On 05.03.2015 02:17, Yiping Zhang wrote: How would one bump up priority for this issue and hopefully get looked at by someone sooner than later ? I will try to jump in fixing the project

Re: how to assign an AffinityGroups to VM instances belonging to a project

2015-03-04 Thread Yiping Zhang
How would one bump up priority for this issue and hopefully get looked at by someone sooner than later ? Yiping On 3/4/15, 11:50 AM, Rene Moser m...@renemoser.net wrote: Hi On 03/04/2015 08:42 PM, Yiping Zhang wrote: Hi, all: I am trying to assign an affinity group I just created to VM

Re: Cloudstack + XenServer 6.2 + NetApp in production

2015-02-15 Thread Yiping Zhang
and XenServer is used in a very large number of deployments, so if there is something wrong they'll be more likely to know. For example, there could be a set of XenServer or OnTap patches to help sort this out. -tim On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Yiping Zhang yzh...@marketo.com wrote: Hi, all

Re: Cloudstack + XenServer 6.2 + NetApp in production

2015-02-15 Thread Yiping Zhang
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: *From:* Yiping Zhang yzh...@marketo.com *Date:* February 15, 2015 at 2:00:05 AM GMT-2 *To:* users@cloudstack.apache.org users@cloudstack.apache.org *Subject:* *Re: Cloudstack + XenServer 6.2 + NetApp in production* *Reply-To:* users

Re: how to configure multi-homed management server?

2015-02-13 Thread Yiping Zhang
. As a fix, change the host parameter to your lab network IP address and destroy system VMs. New system VMs will point to correct mgmt IP. Let me know how it goes. Thanks, Praveen On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Yiping Zhang yzh...@marketo.com wrote: Hi, all: My CS management server has two IP

Cloudstack + XenServer 6.2 + NetApp in production

2015-02-13 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: I am wondering if any one is running their CloudStack in production deployments with XenServer 6.2 + NetApp clusters ? Recently, in our non production deployment (rhel 6.6 + CS 4.3.0 + XenServer 6.2 cluster + NetApp cluster), all our XenServer rebooted automatically because of NFS

how to configure multi-homed management server?

2015-02-11 Thread Yiping Zhang
Hi, all: My CS management server has two IP addresses: one IP address on our corporate network (for general access) and one IP address on lab network , which is used at CloudStack’s management network. When I run cloudstack-setup-database script, I have given “—mshost” option with its IP

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