CloudStack with Xen and vShere

2013-04-07 Thread paul snom
Hi;

I'm evaluating CloudStack, I have a couple of questions I hope someone
can clarify for me:
Q 1: Is CloudStack compatible with Xen Hypervisor (xen.org)?  the
installation manual refers to Citrix XenServer but not Xen as far as I
could see.

Q 2: to continue using my vSphere hosts do I need to keep vCenter?

Thanks!


Re: CloudStack with Xen and vShere

2013-04-07 Thread David Nalley
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi;

 I'm evaluating CloudStack, I have a couple of questions I hope someone
 can clarify for me:
 Q 1: Is CloudStack compatible with Xen Hypervisor (xen.org)?  the
 installation manual refers to Citrix XenServer but not Xen as far as I
 could see.


CloudStack uses XAPI to interact with Xen - so technically Xen.org
will work provided you have XAPI in place. In practice this means
XenServer, XCP, or Xen + XAPI on Debian/Ubuntu.


 Q 2: to continue using my vSphere hosts do I need to keep vCenter?


Yes - CloudStack interacts with the vCenter API, not directly with
vSphere hosts.

--David


Re: CloudStack with Xen and vShere

2013-04-07 Thread paul snom
thanks!!

To test Xen should I just follow the installations steps in the
Installation Manual for Citrix Xenserver, but using the binaries from
xen.org? any good instructional links on xen and cloudstack?

Thanks, again!!
Paul


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:37 AM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote:

 On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi;
 
  I'm evaluating CloudStack, I have a couple of questions I hope someone
  can clarify for me:
  Q 1: Is CloudStack compatible with Xen Hypervisor (xen.org)?  the
  installation manual refers to Citrix XenServer but not Xen as far as I
  could see.


 CloudStack uses XAPI to interact with Xen - so technically Xen.org
 will work provided you have XAPI in place. In practice this means
 XenServer, XCP, or Xen + XAPI on Debian/Ubuntu.

 
  Q 2: to continue using my vSphere hosts do I need to keep vCenter?
 

 Yes - CloudStack interacts with the vCenter API, not directly with
 vSphere hosts.

 --David



Re: CloudStack with Xen and vShere

2013-04-07 Thread Carlos ReƔtegui
Until Cloudstack 4.1 is released I suggest you stick to XenServer 6.0 and not 
try to swap its default xen. 

I finally have a custom build of CS 4.0.1 working with Ubuntu + xcp-xapi but it 
was a real pain to get there and don't recommend you go that route for eval 
purposes. CS 4.1 is supposed to make those pains go away and bring proper 
support for XS 6.2, XCP 1.6 and Ubuntu/Debian + xcp-xapi. 

Cheers
Carlos

On Apr 7, 2013, at 8:59 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote:

 thanks!!
 
 To test Xen should I just follow the installations steps in the
 Installation Manual for Citrix Xenserver, but using the binaries from
 xen.org? any good instructional links on xen and cloudstack?
 
 Thanks, again!!
 Paul
 
 
 On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:37 AM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote:
 
 On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi;
 
 I'm evaluating CloudStack, I have a couple of questions I hope someone
 can clarify for me:
 Q 1: Is CloudStack compatible with Xen Hypervisor (xen.org)?  the
 installation manual refers to Citrix XenServer but not Xen as far as I
 could see.
 
 
 CloudStack uses XAPI to interact with Xen - so technically Xen.org
 will work provided you have XAPI in place. In practice this means
 XenServer, XCP, or Xen + XAPI on Debian/Ubuntu.
 
 
 Q 2: to continue using my vSphere hosts do I need to keep vCenter?
 
 Yes - CloudStack interacts with the vCenter API, not directly with
 vSphere hosts.
 
 --David
 


RE: Putty (ssh) to VM Instances

2013-04-07 Thread Pranav Saxena
I believe , you might need to check your egress rules settings . If they are 
opened by default to allow that.

-Original Message-
From: CK [mailto:cloudw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 7:14 PM
To: cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Putty (ssh) to VM Instances

In an Advanced zone setup, what do I need to do to be able to Putty(ssh) to a 
Linux based VM instance?

Trying to Putty to the VM ip doesn't work.

Regards