Aaron, You gap doc will be mostly between ACS4.1(stable) and 4.2 (RC). With 4.2, we cover majority of needed features, except for "CLOUDSTACK-778, better vmsync" and usage of native vmware API calls to do maintenance mode and other tasks. I assume the next release post 4.3 will make it 98% vSphere compatible.
Something undocumented I found, which needs to be documented and only applies to vSphere, if you management network is tagged, officially cloudstack does not support management tagged networks (due to some limitation with Xen). However with vSphere, tag can be defined in Traffic Label, for example "vSwitch0,1099". This is really helpful and unfortunately not documented anywhere for complex network layouts with vsphere. Also, vDs support only applies to public and guest networks. Don't know how helpful this is, Regards Ilya -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Delp [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ACS HA with vSphere Thank you both the responses and that is great. I know VMware HA very well already and was just wondering if there was anything above and beyond in CloudStack. What I'M thinking of doing is putting together some "gap" documentation that would enable an existing VMware admin come up to speed more quickly on ACS. If I get brave and I like it I'Ll look into seeing if I can get it into the official ACS documentation if everyone finds it appropriate. Thank you! Aaron Delp Senior Director Technical Marketing, Cloud Platform Group [email protected] / 919-561-7904 blog: aarondelp.com / twitter: @aarondelp On 8/21/13 12:23 AM, "Shanker Balan" <[email protected]> wrote: >Comments inline. > >On 21-Aug-2013, at 8:56 AM, Kirk Kosinski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, Aaron. For vSphere, CloudStack relies on native vSphere HA. You >> must enable and configure HA in vSphere to use HA regardless of the >> configuration in CloudStack. To understand the functionality of >> vSphere HA I suggest checking the vSphere docs. >> >> I'm not aware of documentation about using vSphere HA with CloudStack >> besides what is in the install and admin guides. There may be things >> not mentioned in the official docs, such as global settings and >> bugs/gotchas. Besides checking the vSphere docs, it would be useful >> to set it up in a lab and try it out. If you have specific questions >> you can ask on the list and file doc bugs. > > >+1 for the "set it up in a lab and try it out" first. It was during >an actual lab test that I found KVM HA fail with Apache CloudStack 4.1 >despite what the documentation claimed. > >FWIW, you never know what surprises are in store till you actually test >features that is critical to internal success criteria(s). CloudStack >codebase has had a lot of churn since it went open source and it is in >the user's best interest to validate CloudStack features/bugs with the >supporting documentation. > >Regards. > >-- >@shankerbalan > >M: +91 98860 60539 | O: +91 (80) 67935867 [email protected] | >www.shapeblue.com | Twitter:@shapeblue ShapeBlue Services India LLP, >22nd floor, Unit 2201A, World Trade Centre, Bangalore - 560 055 > >This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are >intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. >Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do >not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. >If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither >take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. >Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. >Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue >Services India LLP is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. >ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.
