I'm in Sunnyvale. I've been trying to do a meetup and perhaps demo the
whole vmware/cloudstack setup, but i never really got to do this.
Hopefully, we can put something together for July or early August
timeframe for the meetup.
Also, Router VMs have 1 Management and 1 Guest IP - just realized i
missed it.
If i can give you a suggestion in the meantime, try to get your setup
working with stable 4.3. Once you figure the process out - which is
really not that difficult in my opinion (should take 10-30 minutes at
most - granted you have everything pre-set), then try it with master
codebase, and only then master codebase and your patch.
You did not mention if you are using VLAN tagging btw. Not that it
matters greatly, but consider using newer vSphere, you can download
trials from VMware site, you can even do a nested setup and run many
vSphere CloudStack environments for dev/qa - which is what i've been
doing lately. You have 60 day trial, post that, you can reset the
environment to be compliant with vmware licensing model - needless to
say, this can be semi or completely automated, depends how much effort
you want to put into this. I'd double check this with vmware rep to be
on the safe side.
On 7/9/14, 5:36 PM, Ritu Sabharwal wrote:
Hi Ilya,
Thanks for your replies.
This is really helpful. We can surely get into some video conferencing
and get this setup ready. I am in San Jose, CA.
Thanks & Regards,
Ritu S.
*From:*ilya musayev [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:58 PM
*To:* Ritu Sabharwal; Hugo Trippaers
*Cc:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [Help] Help for setting up Vmware Cluster in CloudStack...
Ritu,
That tutorial is a bit old.
Let me try to answer them, i do have an alternative solution, perhaps
we can get on the phone and do a webex session or something similar -
this week is bad for me, i'm traveling, but next week, Thursday and
beyond - my schedule is flexible. I assume you are on PST timezone
somewhere in bay area.
Please see response inline to your inquiries.
On 7/8/14, 6:29 PM, Ritu Sabharwal wrote:
Hi Ilya,
I am trying to add VMWare DC for the first time in CloudStack
management server and need help in doing so. I am trying to test the
Brocade Network Plugin functionality. The Jira id is :
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6823
I am following the Tutorial:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Advanced+Network+Tutorial+-+Step+by+Step
My Network setup:
1.2 ESXi hosts 4.1.0 hosts.
2.vCenter 5.0
Network layout:
vSwitch0: For Management Network
vSwitch0: for Guest Network
vSwitch0 is assigned 1 Physical Nic. This Nic is connected to Brocade
VDX switch.
My test includes:
* Create an isolated network; verify that the port-profile is
created on the Brocade switch.
* Attach a VM to the network; verify that the VMs MAC address is
associated with the port profile of the network on the Brocade switch.
* Add VMs to the same guest network but on different hosts and
verify connectivity.
* Check the availability of the switch by using the CloudStack API:
http://<managerment-server>:8096/client/api?command=listHosts&type=L2Networking.
This should list the switch with its availability status.
* Delete VMs for an isolated network; verify that the VMs MAC
address is disassociated with the port profile of the network on
the Brocade switch.
* Delete the isolated network; verify that the port-profile is
deleted from the Brocade switch.
I have few questions:
1.Where do I download the system vm template for vmware. I am using
master CS codebase, I don't have the script
/usr/lib64/cloud/common/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt
The path is incorrect, this use to apply to CloudStack 4.0 or 4.1, but
anything post 4.2 has cloudstack in its path.
Here is the snippet of my install script:
/usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt
-m /mnt/nfs/secondary -u
http://my-webserver/systemvm64template-latest-master-vmware.ova -h
vmware -F
Note that /mnt/nfs/secondary - is nfs mount - either local or remote
That mount must be accessible by hypervisors. Cloudstack needs to
access hypervisors and vcenter on port 443.
2.Since I am testing L2 connectivity b/w VMs using Brocade switches by
configuring the VLANs( by creating port-profiles) for the network on
the switches, do I need to assign a IP range for Public network and
storage network?
Depends on your setup. Storage network is used when you have a
separate segregated NFS or alike storage network. In that case, that
storage network must be trunked to you hypervisors.
If you are deploying for POC and you dont have a specific storage
network, dont add storage network traffic label.
Public network - also depends on your setup, if you are doing Advanced
Zone with VPC (amazon like cloud), you will need a larger IP pool as
you want to assign public IPs to your guest VMs. However, if you are
deploying Advanced Shared Zone without VPC, where you are using your
physical network and routers/firewalls, then all you need is 2 public
ips per zone - which arent really public in the internet sense.
3.In the tutorial, there are 2 portgroups for VMs on Managemnt Network
and Development Network? What are these 2 types of VMs?
Cloudstack deploys System VMs in following fashion.
Per zone, you have:
Advanced Shared Zone (non VPC)
- Storage VM - doing storage things
uses 1 public ip and 1 management ip (private communication link)
- Console Proxy VM - proxies VNC console session from hypervisor to
end user
uses 1 public ip and 1 management ip (private communication link)
- RouterVM - 1 per VLAN
uses 1 management ip (private communication link)
Advanced Shared Zone (VPC - dont use this type of env so i'm not
certain - but from what i'm told)
- Storage VM - doing storage things
uses 1 public ip and 1 management ip (private communication link)
- Console Proxy VM - proxies VNC console session from hypervisor to
end user
uses 1 public ip and 1 management ip (private communication link)
- RouterVM - 1 per VLAN per Account
uses 1 management ip (private communication link)
For primary storage, do I give the datastore attached to the
hypervisor hosts?
It depends yet again :) If you have VMFS datastores, then yes you have
to specify existing VMFS store already defined in vCenter.
If you are doing NFS, then cloudstack will create it on your behalf.
Regards
ilya
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
Ritu S.
