Yeah, that's kind of what I was interested in learning about.

Now that we have zone-wide primary storage, does that mean CS is able to
issue the live migration of a VM from one cluster to another (or are we
still confined to clusters)?


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Travis Graham <tgra...@tgraham.us> wrote:

> Was that a limitation caused by the primary storage only being available
> to a single cluster and not zone wide like 4.2.0 provides?
>
> Travis
>
> On Oct 4, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Mike Tutkowski <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Maybe this is a silly question, but if CS handles Live Migrations, are we
> > still constrained to migrating VMs from one host to another in the same
> > cluster?
> >
> > Same question for HA.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Clayton Weise <cwe...@keyinfo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> AFAIK, no, but it's a great RFE that I would vote for.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 9:26 PM
> >> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: Hypervisor Questions
> >>
> >> Oh, and, yes, when I referred to HA, it was (as you said) with the
> meaning
> >> of a host going offline and VMs being restarted on other hosts (perhaps
> in
> >> a prioritized order if there are an insufficient number of resources to
> >> support all of the VMs that were running on the downed host).
> >>
> >> Does CS support assigning a priority to a VM in case not all VMs can be
> >> restarted on the remaining resources?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Mike Tutkowski <
> >> mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks, Clayton!
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, copy/paste mistake there. :) I meant it as you said.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Clayton Weise <cwe...@keyinfo.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> First, I think you meant to put XenServer, KVM, and VMware and not
> >>>> XenServer 3 times in a row.  That being said I think in all cases
> >>>> (somebody correct me if I'm wrong here) it goes something like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> Live Migration: Request is made by CS but carried out by the HV.
> >>>> High Availability: More accurately it's "recovery after host failure"
> >>>> because it's still a disruptive action when a host goes sideways, but
> >>>> by default this is handled by CS.  I _think_ there's an option to let
> >>>> the HV handle this but I'm not totally sure.
> >>>> DRS: Managed by CS through one of several methods with the global
> >>>> setting vm.allocation.algorithm (see below)
> >>>>
> >>>> 'random', 'firstfit', 'userdispersing', 'userconcentratedpod_random',
> >>>> 'userconcentratedpod_firstfit' : Order in which hosts within a
> >>>> cluster will be considered for VM/volume allocation.
> >>>>
> >>>> That being said, after deployment there isn't any further DRS
> >>>> monitoring; it's only done at the time an instance is instantiated.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Clayton
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com]
> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 3:00 PM
> >>>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> >>>> Subject: Hypervisor Questions
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I was wondering if people could clarify for me what CloudStack
> >>>> manages versus what the hypervisor manages in terms of live
> >>>> migration, high availability, and distributed resource scheduling?
> >>>>
> >>>> I know it is probably different for XenServer, VMware, and KVM.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can people fill in the info below (managed by the management server,
> >>>> the hypervisor, or some combination of both)?
> >>>>
> >>>> XenServer
> >>>>   Live migration:
> >>>>   High availability:
> >>>>   Distributed Resource Scheduling:
> >>>>
> >>>> XenServer
> >>>>   Live migration:
> >>>>   High availability:
> >>>>   Distributed Resource Scheduling:
> >>>>
> >>>> XenServer
> >>>>   Live migration:
> >>>>   High availability:
> >>>>   Distributed Resource Scheduling:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> *Mike Tutkowski*
> >>>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
> >>>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com
> >>>> o: 303.746.7302
> >>>> Advancing the way the world uses the
> >>>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
> >>>> *(tm)*
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> *Mike Tutkowski*
> >>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
> >>> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com
> >>> o: 303.746.7302
> >>> Advancing the way the world uses the
> >>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
> >>> *(tm)*
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> *Mike Tutkowski*
> >> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
> >> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com
> >> o: 303.746.7302
> >> Advancing the way the world uses the
> >> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
> >> *(tm)*
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > *Mike Tutkowski*
> > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
> > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com
> > o: 303.746.7302
> > Advancing the way the world uses the
> > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
> > *™*
>
>


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