Re: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] graduation of VCL as a TLP
+ 1 Alex CSUEB On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FYI - -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] graduation of VCL as a TLP Date: Friday, June 15, 2012, 4:26:09 PM From: Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu To: gene...@incubator.apache.org The VOTE by Apache Incubator to propose to the board graduation of the VCL podling to a TLP has passed. Tally of votes is as follows: 5 +1 votes (3 binding, 2 non-binding) 0 0 votes 0 -1 votes Binding +1 votes: Jukka Zitting Kevan Miller Matt Hogstrom Non-binding +1 votes: Aaron Peeler Josh Thompson This VOTE thread for this can be found at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator- general/201206.mbox/%3C3217657.HtVQX5eHGp%40treebeard%3E I will send the proposal to the board this weekend. Josh On Monday, June 11, 2012 2:02:47 PM you wrote: IPMC members, Given the positive feedback from Jukka Zitting and no negative feedback, I'd like to request a vote for the graduation of VCL as a TLP to be proposed to the ASF Board at the June board meeting. I've included the discussion email I sent last week as a reference. I'd like to close the vote on Friday morning, June 15th. This will allow the vote to be open for over 72 hours and allow enough time to get the resolution submitted to the board and on the agenda for the June meeting. Please reply with your vote. +1 yes, VCL should graduate 0 don't know -1 no, VCL should not graduate - please include why not Thanks, Josh Thompson PPMC member, ASF VCL -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [DISCUSS] graduation of VCL as a TLP Date: Thursday, June 07, 2012, 1:18:33 PM From: Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu To: gene...@incubator.apache.org IPMC members, The VCL project would like to graduate. We think we have fulfilled all of the requirements for graduation. We had a successful community graduation vote, including positive votes from 2 mentors. The result of that vote is in this email (mentors denoted by * in the list): http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vcl- user/201205.mbox/CAD7o_Xzkwd3ckZNWaDNPAhuJs9USKftgZcPhS=BNqpXsQhMivA@mail.g mail.com We have prepared a board resolution that can be viewed on our wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/graduation-board-resolution.html There is one member listed in the initial member list (Dmitri Chebotarov) whose ICLA has been sent in but not yet processed. If something were to keep his ICLA from being processed, we understand that his name would need to be removed from the list before a vote is called for us to graduate. There was also a vote in the community to appoint Andy Kurth as our initial chair. The result for that vote is in this email: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vcl- dev/201205.mbox/%3CDD527FB1-35F4-474A-9BEB-77461F617B78%40amherst.edu%3E Please provide any feedback on our charter. Also, let us know if there are any other issues that may need to be completed before we would be allowed to graduate. Thanks, Josh -- --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/bmr0ACgkQV/LQcNdtPQMa+wCfUNkBTQvBQo6IqeDsL9OeK2dY p5cAnA1Kk1uIqT6NvYBluZgB/5jYEKjq =F4xk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Re: Max Number of VMs per Host
Hello, ESXI 5 is limit by licenses with the amount of ram you can run on each machine. The 8 GB vRAM limit is for the upcoming 5.0 free Hypervisor, the 4.x version had no such memory limits. VM makes you pay now if you want to use X amount of ram per host with the upcoming version. Making 4.1 I Free Version a much more attractive option to go with We have each of our blades running ESXI 4.1 with 16 Cores and 48 GB of ram and we have 20 VM's per blade but we give 1.5 GB of ram to each VM. More info here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014006 -Alex On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: I am planning on using a free version of vSphere 5 depending on the how many VMs I can get. I would like to get 50 VMs per host. Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager – Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:01 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Here is some info: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1155 This is for VMware View which could be approximated to VCL. There is also limits per VMFS datastore (if you not using NFS). I have seen different recommendations for VM number per ESXi host per shared VMFS - VMWare recommends 16 VMs per Host for shared VMFS for VMFS-v3. What hypervisor do use for VCL? Thanks. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11:42 , Young h Oh wrote: Normally, you can calculate the average number of VMs depends on the computing power (CPU). For example, 1 physical core can supports 2 VMs with 2 GB RAM. If you have 2 CPUs with 16 cores, then you might run 32VMs with 64GB RAM. However, the max number of VMs per host depends on variable facts as Al Quiros mentioned, In addition to Al's comments, you might also consider the application you want to run on guest VMs. If applications are more computation intensive, the number of CPUs would be important fact to decide the max number of VMs per host. In our environment, we don't use VMware but running RHEL 6 x64 with KVM on IBM blade hosts with 16 CPUs and 24GB RAM. We run average 15 Windows XP VMs with 1GB memory without much performance overhead. However, we can run up to 22 VMs but the performance was not good. Best regards, Young Hyun Oh IBM Tivoli Evelio Quiros ---05/24/2012 10:58:12 AM---Hello, As you know, the number of Virtual Machines per host depends on available resources (CPU, RAM From: Evelio Quiros evq...@fiu.edu To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org vcl-user@incubator.apache.org, 'vcl-...@incubator.apache.org' vcl-...@incubator.apache.org, Date: 05/24/2012 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Hello, As you know, the number of Virtual Machines per host depends on available resources (CPU, RAM, Disk), as well as the demands of the image. As a general guide, I have found the following to be reasonable. Other admins, please share your opinions. For a single VM host with 12 virtual CPU and 98 GB RAM, I typically allocate 25 Windows VM. When necessary, I have raised it to 32 Windows XP machines. For linux based images, I have used 50 VM without issues. Monitor the performance tab on your vSphere client to see if the host is over-worked. On Virtual Machines that require higher performance, I usually will not place them on a host with more than 10 working VM. But the most important thing is to watch the performance closely. You will get a feel for how many VM per host by experience. As always, your mileage may vary. Regards, Al Quiros Florida International University From: Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu Reply-To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:53 PM To: 'vcl-...@incubator.apache.org' vcl-...@incubator.apache.org, 'vcl-user@incubator.apache.org' vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Max Number of VMs per Host All, What is the number of VMs do you all run per VMware host? Is it limited to the RAM limitation for vSphere 5? How many purchase vSphere licenses? Arbin Darren
Re: Max Number of VMs per Host
I'm not sure from what I have been reading, might want to contact your VMware Rep and see what they can do if you plan on upgrading to 5. WIth ESXI 4.1 Infrastructure limitations Some limitations in ESX Server 4 may constrain the design of data centers: Guest system maximum RAM: 255 GB Host system maximum RAM: 1 TB[ Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 Number of Primary Nodes in ESX Cluster high availability: 5 Number of hosts in a Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster: 32 Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 8 Maximum number of processors per host: 160 Maximum number of cores per processor: 12 Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 320 VMFS-3 limits files to 262,144 (218) blocks, which translates to 256 GB for 1 MB block sizes (the default) or up to 2 TB for 8 MB block sizes.However, on a VMFS Boot drive, it is usually very difficult to use anything other than 1 MB Block size With ESXI 5 there has been some changes to these limits Guest system maximum RAM: 1 TB Host system maximum RAM: 2 TB Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 32 Maximum number of processors per host: 160 Maximum number of cores per processor: 25 Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 512 VMFS-3 is supported and has the same limits as before VMFS-5 however has a max volume size of 64 TB and a max file size of 2 TB - 512 B How much vRAM does a VMware vSphere Hypervisor license provide? vSphere Hypervisor license provides a vRAM entitlement of 32GB per server, regardless of the number of physical processors. vSphere Hypervisor can be used on servers with maximum physical RAM capacity of 32GB. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: Alexander, What if I use the paid version of vSphere5? And I have 96 GB of memory? Could I get more than 20 VMs? Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Alexander Patterson [mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:17 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Hello, ESXI 5 is limit by licenses with the amount of ram you can run on each machine. The 8 GB vRAM limit is for the upcoming 5.0 free Hypervisor, the 4.x version had no such memory limits. VM makes you pay now if you want to use X amount of ram per host with the upcoming version. Making 4.1 I Free Version a much more attractive option to go with We have each of our blades running ESXI 4.1 with 16 Cores and 48 GB of ram and we have 20 VM's per blade but we give 1.5 GB of ram to each VM. More info here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014006 -Alex On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: I am planning on using a free version of vSphere 5 depending on the how many VMs I can get. I would like to get 50 VMs per host. Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:01 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Here is some info: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1155 This is for VMware View which could be approximated to VCL. There is also limits per VMFS datastore (if you not using NFS). I have seen different recommendations for VM number per ESXi host per shared VMFS - VMWare recommends 16 VMs per Host for shared VMFS for VMFS-v3. What hypervisor do use for VCL? Thanks. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11:42 , Young h Oh wrote: Normally, you can calculate the average number of VMs depends on the computing power (CPU). For example, 1 physical core can
VCL software licensing
Hello, I wanted to know how are people dealing with software licensing for VCL? Does anyone have a document or information on how they are dealing with the different vendors when it comes to VCL. For example with Microsoft you are using 1 license for each virtual machine you spin up in a Windows environment. Do you have one per user base? Is this for concurrent users? Are you able to split up lab licensing for in house software to be used in the VCL? Do the companies know you are doing this? Does anyone have an agreement with any vendors that goes within the current VCL licensing that they are using? If someone has like an overview or general information on how you are licensing the VCL for educational use; that would be very helpful. We are starting to run into licensing walls and I would love some inside information from someone who has gone through this. -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Re: VCL software licensing
Hello Michael, We have %100 of the same model that you are using, we are working on getting everything into complacency and we are running into big walls starting with Microsoft for copies of the OS that is running on the VCL. Have you talked with Microsoft and do they know you are using the VCL to install virtual instances of the Microsoft product into a Virtual machine environment? We are in talks with Microsoft and they want to charge us X more for doing this, it could lead to the end of our pilot. We have the same campus license that you have and just wanted more insight if anyone has worked closer to the vendors to work on a VCL licensing for software -Alex On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Waldron, Michael H mwald...@email.unc.eduwrote: Alex In our case, we really haven't had to do anything special in regards to licensing. For Microsoft products, we have a campus license which allows us to install on any University-owned systems using the campus site key. For many applications we have network license servers, so the VCL images with that software point to the license servers to get licenses. For all other licenses we have, the license is for a specific number of seats, not specific computers, so we just set the maximum concurrent usage setting on the image to the number of licenses there are for the application. Mike Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -- *From:* Alexander Patterson [alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 07, 2012 1:12 PM *To:* vcl-user@incubator.apache.org *Subject:* VCL software licensing Hello, I wanted to know how are people dealing with software licensing for VCL? Does anyone have a document or information on how they are dealing with the different vendors when it comes to VCL. For example with Microsoft you are using 1 license for each virtual machine you spin up in a Windows environment. Do you have one per user base? Is this for concurrent users? Are you able to split up lab licensing for in house software to be used in the VCL? Do the companies know you are doing this? Does anyone have an agreement with any vendors that goes within the current VCL licensing that they are using? If someone has like an overview or general information on how you are licensing the VCL for educational use; that would be very helpful. We are starting to run into licensing walls and I would love some inside information from someone who has gone through this. -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Re: Creating a base image
Hello Aaron Can you log in into your Vsphere Client ESXI 4.1 Server the one hosting the images Go to Configurations Under Software Click on Security Profile Click on Properties Under Remote Access make sure you have Remote Teach Support SSH is Running and Automatically Turned on You should check if you can ssh without a password from the base image to the management node but also and vice versa. Also did you add in the IP range into trusted hosts? -Alex On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Aaron Bryant amb...@pitt.edu wrote: Greetings, I completed installing Cygwin SSHD and I'm attempting to run the vcld -setup command. My problem occurs in this step while creating a base image. I am able to get through all of the prompts and start the creation before the script crashes. I have checked the '/var/log/vcld.log' log file and this is a portion of the output: --- VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK |10951|20:20|image| WARNING |10951|20:20|image| 2012-02-28 13:32:34|10951|20:20|image|VMware.pm:initialize(273)|no methods are available to control VM host vsphere, the vSphere SDK cannot be used to control the VM host and the host OS cannot be controlled via SSH |10951|20:20|image| ( 0) VMware.pm, initialize (line: 273) |10951|20:20|image| (-1) Module.pm, new (line: 207) |10951|20:20|image| (-2) Module.pm, create_provisioning_object (line: 423) |10951|20:20|image| (-3) State.pm, initialize (line: 117) |10951| 20:20|image| (-4) Module.pm, new (line: 207) |10951|20:20|image| (-5) vcld, make_new_child (line: 564) |10951|20:20| image| WARNING |10951|20:20|image| 2012-02-28 13:32:34|10951|20:20|image| Module.pm:create_provisioning_object(431)|provisioning object could not be created, returning 0 |10951|20:20|image| ( 0) Module.pm, create_provisioning_object (line: 431) |10951|20:20|image| (-1) State.pm, initialize (line: 117) | 10951|20:20|image| (-2) Module.pm, new (line: 207) |10951|20:20|image| (-3) vcld, make_new_child (line: 564) |10951| - I have checked and am able to ssh between the management node and the virtual machines using key authentication. Please see the log file attached for more information. Thanks, Aaron Bryant -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Re: rdp file auto login
Hello, As far as I know you always need to manually log into a virtual machine with the randomly generated password. But you can leave a machine with the same password forever if you wanted To do this Go to Manage Images Then Click on Edit (The Image you want to do this one) Click on Advanced Options Check for logged in user change this to NO Then you can make a reservation for X amount of time I use this on campus for testing servers have VM's that have been up for months at a time with the same log in and password. To give yourself or whoever in your group more Initial Max Time Minutes. You can click on Manage Groups Then Create a User Group For Example AdminTeam@Local or whatever Give them like 9 Minutes and Max Reservation and you can then check out an image as for a really log time and don't have to worry about it timing out or getting kicked off when the system checks for a user. This is a walk around this might fit your situation -Alex On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Gene I'm relatively new with VCL and I may be wrong. I could not find any options in preferences for RDP file to include password. Having password in RDP file would make it easier and if it's possible it would be great. I would like to have this option as well and will be looking into the code which generates a RDP file for new reservations. Thanks On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:58 , Gene Lui wrote: Thanks Dmitri, Wanted to confirm if its possible by using the rdp file, users can auto login with the mstsc (would be preferred over entering password manually). Thanks for such a quick reply and answer to my question. Take care, Gene Drexel University On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 12:47 -0500, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Gene, Username/password would be on your reservation page. Username is Admin, password is generated for each reservation and you need to type it manually when open RDP. Thanks. On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:32 , Gene Lui wrote: Hi there, I wonder if any of you bright individuals can help me out here with this wonderful project you got here. When I use the RDP file supplied on the vcl connection page (Windows 7 client) , I assume it will automatically supply the credentials to log into the remote desktop image (Windows 7 image). The problem is that it does not automatically logs in and it prompts for my password. Do I have this wrong and a password is needed to be manually entered? If not, how do I enable the auto login? I have tried changing group policy settings on the remote desktop host but nothing works. I appreciate any help anyone can give. Thanks, Gene Drexel University -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Re: Reservation/reload errors
Hello Huang Lei, Go to Manage Images Then Click on Edit of whatever image you are having this issue with Click on advanced Options Make sure that Available for checkout is listed and the Machines RAM CPU speed match the VM's numbers that you have in your pool For example 2400mhz 1.5ghz of ram 100mbps network card 1 core I have machines with the same spec that can be loaded on this. Also check the Maximum concurrent users is not capped? Selection not currently available Means there are no computers with whatever spec ready to be loaded on so it's not available. You should have a vmguest-5 in your manage Computer Click on Manage Computer, then Edit Computer Information Click on vmguest-5 click on EDIT Make sure your information is correct and will work with the same spec's your image is. Hope this helps -Alex When you see On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Huang,Lei lhu...@pvamu.edu wrote: Dear all, Our VCL stops working when I try to reserve any images. It always says that Selection not currently available all images. I see that all computers and vmguests are available, and I can log into these nodes too. When I try to reload an image for a vmguest, there is the following error message: No functional management node was found for the following computers. They could not be reloaded at this time: vmguest-5 I don't see anything special in the log file either. I wonder if anyone has seen this problem before, and how to reset the system. Thanks, Lei Huang -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Re: deleting user group associated with a block allocation
1 most of the information that is lost isn't important and when they need to make another block they can redo it. We don't do as many blocks are you do, but 1 would be ideal. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just discovered a problem with deleting user groups that are associated with a block allocation. The web interface will not let you delete a user group that is associated with a block allocation. However, block allocation entries are kept around forever, which means that any user groups that were used for a block allocation can never be deleted. Obviously, this is bad. There are a few ways we can deal with this. Block allocations have a status field that is set to 'completed' when they are done. We could allow user groups that are only associated with completed block allocations to be deleted. But, then, we just lost some information. What information did we lose? Probably the most useful information would be the user group name, however, there are other attributes associated with user groups. Since the membership of the user group could be modified, we can't count on that as being accurate some time down the road. If it is important to keep the information contained in the user group name, we could create another table named usergrouparchive into which deleted user groups would be moved. Another option is to just add a 'deleted' flag to the usergroup table that gets toggled when we delete a user group instead of actually deleting the entry from the table. That option introduces unique indexing issues because we couldn't have a unique key on the usergroup name and affiliation. So, I'd like to know people's thoughts. Please select which option you prefer: (1) I don't care about the name, just delete it from the table (2) Archive deleted user group information to another table (3) Use a 'deleted' flag so the entry isn't actually removed from the table (4) Other - please specify I like #1 best as I don't really think knowing the user group name buys us that much down the road. Thanks, Josh - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6oZl8ACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPLCACfRYUGxQUjXfdG+h+LgNYLt2Qg NRsAn2pNM7NAIwePNE66mVyrp59VPjwI =BkDl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Re: How to configure a new computing node?
Hello, Did you check su - Log in as root for the image you are working on Password: Turn on sshd by typing /etc/init.d/sshd start Got to the /etc/init.d/ then type chkconfig sshd on Have you made sure that you can ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key hostname or IP address ? I had this issue with ssh not kicking off before as well and it was a issue with the image itself. Another helpfull command to check would be ssh -vv (IP address) Have you logged into your box running VMware to see if you are getting a public and private ip address? On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Huang,Lei lhu...@pvamu.edu wrote: Sorry for asking again. I suspect that the problem may be related to network setting. I don't understand why ssd on VM was not active. Is it possible that the IP address of VM is not correct? Any suggestions/hints would be very much appreciated! Thanks, Lei From: Huang,Lei [lhu...@pvamu.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:36 AM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org; aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu Subject: Re: How to configure a new computing node? Aaron, Thank you for your reply. I copied some log information as follows. It looks like the VM was started, but sshd on the VM was not active. The script looped and waited for half an hour and failed at the end. The image works fine on existing blades. I wonder if there is some configuration of VM server I didn't set correctly for the new node. Thanks, Lei === 2011-09-21 23:31:27|14402|518:512|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing SSH command on CSB308: |14402|518:512|new| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x CSB308 'vmware-cmd /install/vmware_files/runningvms/CentOS5_5-base10-v0vmguest-10/CentOS5_5-ba se10-v0vmguest-10.vmx start' 21 2011-09-21 23:31:31|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:31:31 2011-09-21 23:31:36|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:31:36 2011-09-21 23:31:40|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:check_connection(1765)|checking for connection by admin on vmguest-2, attempt 27 2011-09-21 23:31:40|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing SSH command on vmguest-2: |14122|517:511|inuse| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x vmguest-2 'netstat -an' 21 2011-09-21 23:31:40|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing SSH command on vmguest-2: |14122|517:511|inuse| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x vmguest-2 'who' 21 2011-09-21 23:31:41|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6262)|run_ssh_command output: |14122|517:511|inuse| none 2011-09-21 23:31:41|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6276)|SSH command executed on vmguest-2, returning (0, none) 2011-09-21 23:31:41|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:31:41 2011-09-21 23:31:46|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:31:46 2011-09-21 23:31:48|14402|518:512|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6262)|run_ssh_command output: |14402|518:512|new| start() = 1 2011-09-21 23:31:48|14402|518:512|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6276)|SSH command executed on CSB308, returning (0, start() = 1) 2011-09-21 23:31:48|14402|518:512|new|vmware.pm:load(808)|started /install/vmware_files/runningvms/CentOS5_5-base10-v0vmguest-10/CentOS5_5-ba se10-v0vmguest-10.vmx on CSB308 2011-09-21 23:31:48|14402|518:512|new|utils.pm:insertloadlog(4710)|inserted computer=17, startvm, started vm on CSB308 |14402|518:512|new| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x CSB308 'vmware-cmd /install/vmware_files/runningvms/CentOS5_5-base10-v0vmguest-10/CentOS5_5-ba se10-v0vmguest-10.vmx getstate' 21 2011-09-21 23:32:11|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:32:11 2011-09-21 23:32:16|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:32:16 2011-09-21 23:32:21|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:check_connection(1765)|checking for connection by admin on vmguest-2, attempt 29 2011-09-21 23:32:21|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing SSH command on vmguest-2: |14122|517:511|inuse| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x vmguest-2 'netstat -an' 21 2011-09-21 23:32:21|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:32:21 2011-09-21 23:32:21|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing SSH command on vmguest-2: |14122|517:511|inuse| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x vmguest-2 'who' 21 2011-09-21 23:32:22|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6262)|run_ssh_command output: |14122|517:511|inuse| none 2011-09-21 23:32:22|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6276)|SSH command executed on vmguest-2, returning (0, none) 2011-09-21
Re: How to configure a new computing node?
I am posting this on behalf of Greg Duhon
I have one more suggestion to add. Verify that the networks are not
switched. In other words, is the public network on the private
interface or private network on the public interface. I can't tell
you how many times this one dinged us when we first started using VCL.
-Greg Duhon
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM, James O'Dell jod...@fullerton.edu wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
If you can't ping your gateway, it's either a network problem,
or a firewall problem.
Try pinging the gateway, and then dumping your arp table
('arp -an'). If you see the mac address for the gateway in
your arp table, it's probably a firewall issue. If the
mac address isn't there, it's a network problem
__Jim
On 9/23/2011 9:27 AM, Huang,Lei wrote:
Hi Alex,
Thanks for your suggestions! For the image, it works fine when it
lauches on virtual hosts on existing nodes. The problem happens
when it runs on a new node. I assume the sshd works fine on the
image itself.
I have set up the ssh key to allow the management node to log in
the node successfully. After I log into the new node running
VMware, I can see that my network eth0 and eth1 have private and
public ip address. However, I found that I cann't ping my gateway
from the node. Are there any settings I need to do?
Thanks, Lei
From: Alexander Patterson
[alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] Sent: Friday, September 23,
2011 11:08 AM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Cc:
aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu Subject: Re: How to configure a new computing
node?
Hello,
Did you check su - Log in as root for the image you are working on
Password: Turn on sshd by typing /etc/init.d/sshd start Got to the
/etc/init.d/ then type chkconfig sshd on
Have you made sure that you can ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key hostname
or IP address ?
I had this issue with ssh not kicking off before as well and it was
a issue with the image itself.
Another helpfull command to check would be ssh -vv (IP address)
Have you logged into your box running VMware to see if you are
getting a public and private ip address?
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Huang,Lei lhu...@pvamu.edu
wrote:
Sorry for asking again. I suspect that the problem may be related
to network setting. I don't understand why ssd on VM was not
active. Is it possible that the IP address of VM is not correct?
Any suggestions/hints would be very much appreciated!
Thanks, Lei From:
Huang,Lei [lhu...@pvamu.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011
10:36 AM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org;
aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu Subject: Re: How to configure a new
computing node?
Aaron,
Thank you for your reply. I copied some log information as
follows. It looks like the VM was started, but sshd on the VM was
not active. The script looped and waited for half an hour and
failed at the end. The image works fine on existing blades. I
wonder if there is some configuration of VM server I didn't set
correctly for the new node.
Thanks, Lei
===
2011-09-21
23:31:27|14402|518:512|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing
SSH command on CSB308: |14402|518:512|new| /usr/bin/ssh -i
/etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x CSB308 'vmware-cmd
/install/vmware_files/runningvms/CentOS5_5-base10-v0vmguest-10/CentOS5_5-ba
se10-v0vmguest-10.vmx start' 21
2011-09-21 23:31:31|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated
for management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:31:31 2011-09-21
23:31:36|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:31:36 2011-09-21
23:31:40|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:check_connection(1765)|checking
for connection by admin on vmguest-2, attempt 27 2011-09-21
23:31:40|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing
SSH command on vmguest-2: |14122|517:511|inuse| /usr/bin/ssh -i
/etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x vmguest-2 'netstat -an' 21
2011-09-21
23:31:40|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing
SSH command on vmguest-2: |14122|517:511|inuse| /usr/bin/ssh -i
/etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x vmguest-2 'who' 21
2011-09-21
23:31:41|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6262)|run_ssh_command
output:
|14122|517:511|inuse| none 2011-09-21
23:31:41|14122|517:511|inuse|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6276)|SSH
command executed on vmguest-2, returning (0, none) 2011-09-21
23:31:41|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:31:41 2011-09-21
23:31:46|3929|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
management node 1: 2011-09-21 23:31:46 2011-09-21
23:31:48|14402|518:512|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6262)|run_ssh_command
output:
|14402|518:512|new| start() = 1 2011-09-21
23:31:48|14402|518:512|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6276)|SSH
command executed on CSB308, returning (0, start() = 1)
2011-09-21
23:31:48|14402|518:512|new
Re: windows 7 sysprep???
Hello Patrick, Windows 7 doesn't use sysprep. This is only used in Windows XP. Check in your php table under Imagemeta for your Windows 7 image id # that your using that sysprep is set to 0 then give that a try. For example Your Image Id =6 CheckUser =1 Subimage = 1 Sysprep = 0 -Alex On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM, James Patrick Sigmon jpsig...@ncsu.edu wrote: Hey Guys, I've run into a problem with captured windows 7 images. They seem to capture fine, but when you make a reservation for them they time out at the ssh step. Looking at the console, I can see why. There is a pop-up box that reads: Windows could not parse or process the unattended answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup]. I've been frantically searching for a generic answer to this, and it sounds like to could be a sysprep issue, however, the image is a virtual machine. I'm still searching for solutions on my own, but I thought it would be best to go ahead and post this issue as our pilot went live and I'm trying to figure this out ASAP. Any help is much appreciated, -Patrick Sigmon -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Re: windows 7 sysprep???
Make sure you run /usr/local/vcl/bin/vcld -setup When Prompted Click on 3 We are using product keys Click on 2 for Add product Key Click on 1 for Global or 2 for Local This will then give you a choice Choose a Windows product: 1. Windows XP 2. Windows Server 2003 3. Windows Vista Business 4. Windows Vista Business N 5. Windows Vista Enterprise 6. Windows Vista Enterprise N 7. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter 8. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V 9. Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems 10. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 11. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V 12. Windows Server 2008 Standard 13. Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V 14. Windows Web Server 2008 15. Windows Server 2008 HPC 16. Windows 7 Professional 17. Windows 7 Professional N 18. Windows 7 Professional E 19. Windows 7 Enterprise 20. Windows 7 Enterprise N 21. Windows 7 Enterprise E 22. Windows Server 2008 R2 Web 23. Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC edition 24. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 25. Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 26. Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 27. Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems 28. Other For Windows 7 it's very picky about it's key. I went ahead and set all of my Windows 7 to the same key, I could do this due to our key working for all of these version. This fixed my Issue about not being able to image on Windows 7 Just select the number for example 19 Then copy and paste your product key. It will be saved as the congratulation for either globe or local whatever you selected. Hope this is helpful -Alex On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Hartl, Gerhard L. gha...@odu.edu wrote: VCL 2.2 does use a unattend.xml for sysprep. It is located at /usr/local/tools/Windows_7/Utilities/Sysprep/Unattend.xml. Are you imaging Win7 x64 or x86? What version? Enterprise, Pro, Ultimate, etc? The key provided is for the Enterprise edition and would fail if you are trying to create a Win 7 Pro image. Also the processorArchitecture must equal the architecture you are trying to image. This is the section that is apparently your issue: component name=Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup processorArchitecture=x86 publicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35 language=neutral versionScope=nonSxS xmlns:wcm=http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State; xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; - Display ColorDepth32/ColorDepth DPI120/DPI HorizontalResolution800/HorizontalResolution RefreshRate72/RefreshRate VerticalResolution600/VerticalResolution /Display ComputerName*/ComputerName TimeZoneEastern Standard Time/TimeZone ProductKey33PXH-7Y6KF-2VJC9-XBBR8-HVTHH/ProductKey /component - Gerhard Old Dominion University -Original Message- From: Alexander Patterson [mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:20 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: windows 7 sysprep??? Hello Patrick, Windows 7 doesn't use sysprep. This is only used in Windows XP. Check in your php table under Imagemeta for your Windows 7 image id # that your using that sysprep is set to 0 then give that a try. For example Your Image Id =6 CheckUser =1 Subimage = 1 Sysprep = 0 -Alex On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM, James Patrick Sigmon jpsig...@ncsu.edu wrote: Hey Guys, I've run into a problem with captured windows 7 images. They seem to capture fine, but when you make a reservation for them they time out at the ssh step. Looking at the console, I can see why. There is a pop-up box that reads: Windows could not parse or process the unattended answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup]. I've been frantically searching for a generic answer to this, and it sounds like to could be a sysprep issue, however, the image is a virtual machine. I'm still searching for solutions on my own, but I thought it would be best to go ahead and post this issue as our pilot went live and I'm trying to figure this out ASAP. Any help is much appreciated, -Patrick Sigmon -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay -- Thanks, Alex Patterson User Support Services Operating System Analyst California State University, East Bay
Broken Image Loading on VCL
I was changing some settings on the PHPmyadmin and I broke my current system. I'm not sure what I need to change to get this working. |16296|96:88|deleted| image name: vmwarewinxp-build33-v0 |16296|96:88|deleted| OS module: VCL::Module::OS::Windows::Version_5::XP 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(614)|computer ID argument was specified, retrieving data for computer ID: 9 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(644)|image ID argument was specified: 6, DataStructure object will contain image information for the production imagerevision of this image 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(661)|retrieved data for imagerevision ID: 6 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(677)|retrieved data for image ID: 6 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_datastructure(1187)|created DataStructure object for VM host: vclesxi01 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_os_object(1229)|attempting to load VM host OS module: VCL::Module::OS::Windows::Version_5::XP 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_os_object(1235)|VM host OS module loaded: VCL::Module::OS::Windows::Version_5::XP 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|Module.pm:new(165)|VCL::Module::OS::Windows::Version_5::XP object created for image vmwarewinxp-build33-v0, address: 45f2290 2011-03-11 10:01:36|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_os_object(1241)|VM host OS object created: VCL::Module::OS::Windows::Version_5::XP 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|OS.pm:is_ssh_responding(401)|vclesxi01 is responding to SSH, port 22: open, port 24: closed 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:initialize(254)|OS on VM host vclesxi01 will be controlled using a VCL::Module::OS::Windows::Version_5::XP OS object 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(614)|computer ID argument was specified, retrieving data for computer ID: 9 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(644)|image ID argument was specified: 6, DataStructure object will contain image information for the production imagerevision of this image 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(661)|retrieved data for imagerevision ID: 6 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(677)|retrieved data for image ID: 6 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_datastructure(1187)|created DataStructure object for VM host: vclesxi01 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_api_object(1290)|attempting to load VMware control module: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_api_object(1296)|loaded VMware control module: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|Module.pm:new(169)|VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK object created for computer vmguest-12, address: 45f2510 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|vSphere_SDK.pm:initialize(1829)|loaded VMware vSphere SDK modules 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|vSphere_SDK.pm:initialize(1840)|unable to use vSphere SDK, VM host username is not configured in the database for the VM profile 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_api_object(1310)|API object could not be created: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(614)|computer ID argument was specified, retrieving data for computer ID: 9 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(644)|image ID argument was specified: 6, DataStructure object will contain image information for the production imagerevision of this image 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(661)|retrieved data for imagerevision ID: 6 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|DataStructure.pm:_initialize(677)|retrieved data for image ID: 6 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_datastructure(1187)|created DataStructure object for VM host: vclesxi01 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_api_object(1290)|attempting to load VMware control module: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VIM_SSH 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_api_object(1296)|loaded VMware control module: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VIM_SSH 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|Module.pm:new(169)|VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VIM_SSH object created for computer vmguest-12, address: 462e090 |16296|96:88|deleted| WARNING |16296|96:88|deleted| 2011-03-11 10:01:37|16296|96:88|deleted|VIM_SSH.pm:initialize(112)|required VM host OS subroutine is not implemented: execute |16296|96:88|deleted| ( 0) VIM_SSH.pm, initialize (line: 112) |16296|96:88|deleted| (-1) Module.pm, new (line:
