RE: CS 4 Database integrity - mysql server performances

2013-02-14 Thread Alex Huang
> -Original Message- > From: Chiradeep Vittal > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:44 AM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Alex Huang > Subject: Re: CS 4 Database integrity - mysql server performances > > +Alex since he is opinionated on this stuff. &g

RE: First SF bay area cloudstack meetup!

2013-02-08 Thread Alex Huang
ject: First SF bay area cloudstack meetup! > >> > > >> > I don't plan on mentioning all of these here, but for the first time I > thought I > >> would... > >> > > >> > The first bay area CloudStack meet up is being hosted by Br

RE: mgmt VM access to VPC

2013-02-06 Thread Alex Huang
> -Original Message- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 7:43 AM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: mgmt VM access to VPC > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 02:23:08AM +, Alex Heneveld wrote: > > Hi, > > > > W

RE: [PROPOSAL] [DISCUSS] Deprecate CloudStack apis and api server

2013-01-31 Thread Alex Huang
+1 --Alex > -Original Message- > From: John Burwell [mailto:jburw...@basho.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:45 AM > To: cloudstack-...@incubator.apache.org > Cc: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] [DISCUSS] Deprecate CloudStack apis and api server >

RE: [Discuss] Cpu and Ram overcommit.

2013-01-15 Thread Alex Huang
Bharat, A few comments. - On your caveats, I think you should deploy 2b. Accept the change but not add more VMs anymore. You can provide a warning. - As for repeated alerts, that's a problem with the alert mechanism. It should not repeat alerts. Fix it there. On implementation: - You need

RE: best supported hypervisor

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Huang
> > -- > Kraig Amador > > > On Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Alex Huang wrote: > > > Nux, > > > > I would say XenServer is the best supported hypervisor with KVM rapidly > catching up. This is mainly because I've known quite a few XS product

RE: best supported hypervisor

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Huang
Nux, I would say XenServer is the best supported hypervisor with KVM rapidly catching up. This is mainly because I've known quite a few XS production deployments. You'll find a lot of community members are on KVM and since it's been open to apache, there's been a lot of contribution in KVM

RE: best supported hypervisor + SDN

2013-01-09 Thread Alex Huang
That's incorrect. OVS GRE is implemented currently on XenServer and KVM but is at prototype/demo quality. Nicira is on KVM, I believe. Hugo would know more about that. It is not the same as VPC and it is not from client to VR only. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Mathias Mullins

RE: best supported hypervisor + SDN

2013-01-09 Thread Alex Huang
> -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Isn't the Borg Collective already cloud based? --Alex

RE: Secondary storage migration

2013-01-07 Thread Alex Huang
I've had experience doing this. It involves - Stop CloudStack - copying everything from one secondary storage to another. - change the references to that secondary storage in the database to the new secondary storage. I can't recall all the places that need changing but it was not a lot. - res

RE: db table name prefixed with op_

2012-12-31 Thread Alex Huang
Op stands for operations. It means entries in these tables are transitional and are used for keeping track of the status of an operation. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Likitha Shetty [mailto:likitha.she...@citrix.com] > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:50 AM > To: cloudstack-user

RE: [VOTE] Enforcing UUID string in API query

2012-12-27 Thread Alex Huang
with backwards > compatibility and also the fact that both ways needs to be tested and > validated. > > Will > > > -Original Message- > > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:44 PM > > To: cloud

RE: [VOTE] Enforcing UUID string in API query

2012-12-27 Thread Alex Huang
Sorry I don't understand why it needs to be a vote. Why can't we just offer a flag to turn it on and off? --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@citrix.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:11 PM > To: cloudstack-...@incubator.apache.org > Cc: cloudsta

RE: Introducing Storage Tags

2012-12-20 Thread Alex Huang
> > We should fix it so that it doesn't mean 'this'. :) > These are the arguments I have heard against "fixing" it. - If you change it such that null means default, then what means don't care? - If you're tiering storage, why wouldn't you tier the default storage? It somewhat makes sense.

RE: Introducing Storage Tags

2012-12-20 Thread Alex Huang
> > Or does a empty tag mean just put it on some storage no mather of the > storage tag? It means this. --Alex

RE: Request for cloudstack-qa mailing list and QA Scrum call

2012-12-18 Thread Alex Huang
The problem with using -users is that -qa will often have issues that are raised during nightly testing, etc. Exposing users is often too much detail. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Prasanna Santhanam [mailto:prasanna.santha...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:12 P

RE: Changes to wiki top page....

2012-12-13 Thread Alex Huang
> > I actually would like to completely get rid of that table and replace it > > with a > link to a public filter on Jira. (note the line on 4.1 release page that > says " 4.1 > Feature List from Jira. Please someone add a filter add the link here. ") > The > filter should be on the release=[

RE: Changes to wiki top page....

2012-12-13 Thread Alex Huang
> Alex, > > One thing I would like us to change is the contents of the > "Contributed By" column. We're individuals here, and organizations > don't have any standing. So for example, instead of Contributed By: > Citrix for a particular feature I'd like it to either be the specific > people invol

RE: cloudstack features wish-list

2012-12-11 Thread Alex Huang
+1 I think wiki is good for more static stuff. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Kluge [mailto:kevin.kl...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:35 PM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: cloudstack features wish-list > > In other communities I'

Changes to wiki top page....

2012-12-10 Thread Alex Huang
Here's another change on the wiki. Prasanna put together an excellent page with CloudStack design documents. I modified it slightly so that we have 4.1 and 4.0 design documents and so that it's easy to add any design page. I added this page to the top level page. I basically put the 4.1 feat

RE: [DISCUSS][AFSCS41]Releases added to the title page of the wiki

2012-12-10 Thread Alex Huang
> > I think Joe's primary planning / tracking tool for 4.0.1 has been Jira > (which, IMO, is the right thing for bug-fix only releases). +1 on using Jira. I actually tried to create a filter for 4.1 new features in jira so I can link to that from the 4.1 wiki page but apparently I don't have p

[DISCUSS][AFSCS41]Releases added to the title page of the wiki

2012-12-10 Thread Alex Huang
I added a Releases headline to cwiki. Under that headline is the 4.0 release link and a 4.1 release link. The 4.1 release link points to an info page where users and developers can get information on the status of the 4.1 release. We can add links to jir searches that finds 4.1 bugs on this p

RE: Large Bandwidth

2012-11-13 Thread Alex Huang
Trevor, You should talk to XS about this. CloudStack should be fine with this setup but you need verification on XS about whether it can sustain and whether active/active is a supported bond. --Alex From: Trevor Francis [mailto:trevor.fran...@tgrahamcapital.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 20

RE: Mail to the administrator when a user want to create a instance

2012-11-09 Thread Alex Huang
If you want to control this, wouldn't you orchestrate above CloudStack? Why put it into CloudStack? --Alex > -Original Message- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 10:48 AM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Mail to the a

RE: alter resolv.conf nameservers on linux

2012-11-07 Thread Alex Huang
In 4.0, what I would do is this. - Write a plugin. - Listen to vm start events. - On router vm start, ssh into the router vm and change the resolv.conf In the next release, Murali have added proper external event system then you don't even need to do this via a plugin. --Alex -Original M

RE: DNS Issue

2012-11-07 Thread Alex Huang
James, Currently it does not work that way. A DHCP server is deployed per network. --Alex -Original Message- From: James Jeffrey [mailto:james.jeff...@cpp.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:14 AM To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: DNS Issue For the guest IP

RE: CloudStack 4.0 support for XCP 1.6

2012-10-29 Thread Alex Huang
A quick check on devCloud, which uses XCP, shows that it's at version 1.6 so it should be workable. However, that support has not been productized (never officially QAed) and remains at developer support level. My understanding is that XCP is always close to a version of XenServer so the effor

RE: Why do we need mysql server on the dev machine

2012-10-28 Thread Alex Huang
If I'm not mistaken from my limited knowledge of pom, you can set a db.properties.override. If that file is there, it will use this file instead. In there, you should be able to specify a remote mysql server. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Charles Moulliard [mailto:ch0...@gmail.c

RE: Cloudstack mixing Vlan and creating a big mess...

2012-10-23 Thread Alex Huang
Arnaud, Can you provide more information? What are the networks and the network configurations you are deploying the VM into? How did you setup your zone? Is this 3.x, 4.x, 2.x? --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Arnaud Gaillard [mailto:arnaud.gaill...@xtendsys.net] > Sent: Tuesda

RE: will a vm be allocated to a host which has a host tag?

2012-10-22 Thread Alex Huang
My question is: If I use B to create a vm, will it be allocated to host with > tags? Yes it will. > Another question is, System vm will be allocated which place? System VM can be allocated to any host. To force a system VM to a host with a certain tag, you have edit the row for that system

RE: V4 Release Date?

2012-10-06 Thread Alex Huang
It is fairly close, pending QA test completion currently. On a day to day slip. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: bruc...@v365.com.au [mailto:bruc...@v365.com.au] > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 5:24 PM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: V4 Release Date? > >

RE: Storage failure in not handled well in CS

2012-10-03 Thread Alex Huang
> -Original Message- > From: Nik Martin [mailto:nik.mar...@nfinausa.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:27 PM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Storage failure in not handled well in CS > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-251 > > On 10/0

RE: How does XenCenter show stopped state when stop VM from CloudStack

2012-09-26 Thread Alex Huang
; Subject: Re: How does XenCenter show stopped state when stop VM from > CloudStack > > I dit it. A smail trick during stopping time. > > 2012/9/26 Nguyen Anh Tu > > > Thanks for your information, Alex. Looking for AutoScale feature! > > However, I will try to do some

RE: How does XenCenter show stopped state when stop VM from CloudStack

2012-09-25 Thread Alex Huang
When CloudStack stops a VM, it completely takes out the VM meta information from the XenServer database and then reconstructs it when it starts the VM. You can't do anything unless you want to change cloudstack code. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Nguyen Anh Tu [mailto:ng.t...@gmai

RE: [AFSCS40] Release status for CS 4.0

2012-09-25 Thread Alex Huang
; Thanks, > Ram > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > > Sent: 25 September 2012 07:57 > > To: cloudstack-...@incubator.apache.org > > Cc: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: [AFSCS40] Rele

RE: [AFSCS40] Release status for CS 4.0

2012-09-25 Thread Alex Huang
cheme until we have > something to vote on officially? > > - chip > > Sent from my iPhone. > > On Sep 24, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Alex Huang wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I've been reminded that I've neglected to update the community on the > c

[AFSCS40] Release status for CS 4.0

2012-09-24 Thread Alex Huang
Hi All, I've been reminded that I've neglected to update the community on the current status for CloudStack 4.0. I apologize for that oversight. From now til the actual release, I will give a daily update on the status. If you feel anything is missing, please let me know and I'll try to incl

RE: List of New Features in 4.0

2012-09-10 Thread Alex Huang
Hi, I've put together a high level release page so everyone can get information. Please add and edit as you see fit. See [1]. --Alex [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+4.0+Release

RE: really bad UI design

2012-08-15 Thread Alex Huang
loudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: really bad UI design > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Alex Huang wrote: > > > > > > > To sum it up, let's say we need a fine grained Role Based Access > > > Control > > > (RBAC) model in CloudStack. Are

RE: really bad UI design

2012-08-08 Thread Alex Huang
> > To sum it up, let's say we need a fine grained Role Based Access Control > (RBAC) model in CloudStack. Are we using anything specific now or is it just > ad hoc code to handle the handful of cases that already exist? > Agreed ACL in CloudStack is limping. We're looking to change that and in

RE: Initiative for newbies

2012-07-27 Thread Alex Huang
Bharat, Nice work. Something like this deserves front page status. We should make our wiki's front page easier to navigate. For example, separate links for users and developers. And then something like this can go into front page for developers. --Alex > -Original Message- > From:

RE: iSCSI or NFS

2012-07-24 Thread Alex Huang
In our experience, NFS has been much easier to operate than iSCSI. Many thinks they understand iSCSI but it's not easy to get iSCSI + MPIO + multiple VDIs on the same LUN often makes for a operations nightmare. We haven't done straight NFS vs iSCSI performance comparisons but there are papers

RE: Supported browsers

2012-06-18 Thread Alex Huang
Is that also the priority order or is there no priority order? --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Will Chan [mailto:will.c...@citrix.com] > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:21 AM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org; cloudstack- > d...@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Supported br

RE: Management network on a tagged VLAN

2012-06-14 Thread Alex Huang
It should be possible in KVM also. What you have to do is create a bridge with the VLAN and then use that name as the name-label for the management network. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Kelven Yang [mailto:kelven.y...@citrix.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:25 PM > To: clou

RE: How to Bundle Apps?

2012-05-31 Thread Alex Huang
Kevin, You can do this two ways. 1. Use RightScale 2. Roll your own solution by using userdata. In the userdata, you store information about what each VM is supposed to become. Your template contains puppet or chef scripts. Those scripts will access the userdata for that VM and use that to

RE: DB schema upgrade script for CS 3.0.1 -> 3.0.2, probably bug.

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Huang
DB upgrades is one of the easiest things to unit test and there are previous examples of how to unit test them. Please do the unit testing before checking them in. --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Sheng Yang [mailto:sh...@yasker.org] > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:26 AM > To: clo