Re: [Openstack] [cinder] Pruning Old Volume Backups with Ceph Backend

2018-08-23 Thread David Medberry
Hi Chris, Unless I overlooked something, I don't see Cinder or Ceph versions posted. Feel free to just post the codenames but give us some inkling. On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Chris Martin wrote: > I back up my volumes daily, using incremental backups to minimize > network traffic and sto

Re: [Openstack] Live migration failed with ceph storage

2018-07-25 Thread David Medberry
compute-01 ~]# nova --version > 9.1.2 > > I am using Pike 16.0.15 (My deployment tool is openstack-ansible) > > > What are my option here? > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 8:19 AM, David Medberry > wrote: > > It's not clear what version of Nova you are run

Re: [Openstack] Live migration failed with ceph storage

2018-07-25 Thread David Medberry
It's not clear what version of Nova you are running but perhaps it is badly patched. The 16.x.x (Pike) release of Nova has no "migrate_configure_max_speed" but as best I can tell you are running a patched version of Nova Pike so it may be inconsistent. This parameter was introduced on 2017-08-24:

Re: [Openstack] flavor metadata

2018-07-02 Thread David Medberry
Bernd has this right. Host aggregates (sometimes called Haggs) is the right soluton to this problem. You can setup a flavor to only run on a certain hagg. This works well (in production, at scale). On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 7:52 AM, Satish Patel wrote: > Folks, > > Recently we build openstack for

Re: [Openstack] [pike] general how to get off the ground questions

2018-04-01 Thread David Medberry
Generally recommended to start with a cloud-image and these are available for Centos and RHEL. You can then customize (either via cloud-init which would be the cloud-way or via making a new image from your existing customized instances.) RHEL https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhe

Re: [Openstack] nova live migration setup

2018-03-21 Thread David Medberry
Best practice is to use shared storage and then the "copy" is really only the active memory. A few changes came about in about the newton? timeframe that allows for some memory convergence. Take a look at the nova release notes from that time forward and you should see reference to the change(s).

Re: [Openstack] [Openstack-operators] diskimage-builder: prepare ubuntu 17.x images

2018-02-08 Thread David Medberry
Subscribe to this bug and click the "This affects me." link near the top. https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1585233 On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Volodymyr Litovka wrote: > Hi colleagues, > > does anybody here know how to prepare Ubuntu Artful (17.10) image using > diskimage-builde

[Openstack] Ops Mid Cycle in Tokyo Mar 7-8 2018

2018-01-16 Thread David Medberry
Hi all, Broad distribution to make sure folks are aware of the upcoming Ops Meetup in Tokyo. You can help "steer" this meetup by participating in the planning meetings or more practically by editing this page (respectfully): https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/TYO-ops-meetup-2018 Sign up for the me

Re: [Openstack] Ocata Update libvirtd Error

2017-10-08 Thread David Medberry
Hi G., I don't have Ocata up anywhere, but as a "best practice", I generally do the: nova reset-state --active $UUID followed immediately by nova reboot --hard to try and "restore/resurrect" errored instances. The reset-state --active doesn't actually do anything to the instance, it just manipula

Re: [Openstack] Pike NOVA Disable and Live Migrate all instances.

2017-09-19 Thread David Medberry
Best practice is to never migrate more than one at a time. Maybe that has been encoded. I.e. no more than one off of a compute at a time and no more than one onto a compute at a time. On Sep 19, 2017 5:37 PM, "Steven D. Searles" wrote: > Hello everyone and thanks in advance. I have Openstack Pi

Re: [Openstack] Installing iPerf3 on Cirros

2017-07-07 Thread David Medberry
Cirros is a MICRO distribution for verifying a cloud works, not for doing performance analysis. There are no "packages" for it as it is not designed to have functionality added to it. You can instead install a complete version of Linux (say, Ubuntu) and then run performance analysis as you would no

Re: [Openstack] live migration issue

2017-01-25 Thread David Medberry
Does "virsh capabilities" return the same tree on both hosts? On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 4:10 AM, fabrice grelaud < fabrice.grel...@u-bordeaux.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > i ‘ve got live migration issue in one direction but not in other. > I deploy openstack with OSA, ubuntu trusty, stable/newton branch, 14

Re: [Openstack] Name missing in Contributors list of OpenStack release webpage

2016-10-19 Thread David Medberry
Others reported the same (some of my co-workers). Wasn't at all clear why/how they got missed. On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Jonnalagadda, Venkata < venkata.jonnalaga...@intl.att.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Myself contributed to multiple openstack projects during Mitaka & Newton > but it seems m

Re: [Openstack] Question about VM credentials - newbie

2016-08-31 Thread David Medberry
cloud-init and cloud-config is how one can add a password to a cloud image though it is NEVER recommended. See: http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/examples.html and read about users and groups and mkpasswd cloud-init will read this at vm boot time and apply the cloud-config (presu

Re: [Openstack] Question about creating an image from command line and listing it in Horizon (newbie)

2016-08-29 Thread David Medberry
depending on who created it and in what tenant/project, yes you should be able to see it as that equivalent user in horizon. If you made it public, any user should be able to see it. On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > I use OpenStack (Kilo) on Ubuntu. > > When creat

Re: [Openstack] Ubuntu Xenial Options

2016-08-24 Thread David Medberry
Exactly. Since Xenial released alongside Xenial, UCA is not required. You will find Newton packages in UCA (if not now in pre-release, at some point closer to release.) On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Erdősi Péter wrote: > 2016. 08. 24. 17:55 keltezéssel, Kiriakos Krastillis írta: > >> Is ther

Re: [Openstack] Disable compute node from accepting new VMs?

2016-08-02 Thread David Medberry
nova service-disable $SHORTNAME nova-compute --reason NO_MORE_SCHEDULING_HERE will prevent new VMs from going on but doesn't do anything with existing. On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hi, all. Trying to figure out how to disable a compute node from getting > new VMs sch

Re: [Openstack] Built in security group?

2016-07-12 Thread David Medberry
No, I don't think there is a way to "add" a rule that isn't already in your default settings to an instance so that it can reach the metadata server. If users bypass the "default" (presuming you allow default to access the metadata server), they simply won't have that access. On Tue, Jul 12, 20

Re: [Openstack] Guidance to start contribution

2016-06-26 Thread David Medberry
Asaka, The openstack-dev mailing list may be a better place to ask but since you asked here Read this: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute with special attention to this: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Bug_fixing with these Low Hanging Fruit bugs: https:/

Re: [Openstack] nova "get-password " returns blank line

2016-06-16 Thread David Medberry
1:16 AM, Jean-Pierre Ribeauville < jpribeauvi...@axway.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > This parameter is set to true in nova.conf . : > > > > *enable_instance_password=true* > > > > > > J.P. > > > > *From:* medbe...@gmail.com [mailto:medbe...@gma

Re: [Openstack] nova "get-password " returns blank line

2016-06-15 Thread David Medberry
It all depends on how you have setup your cloud. Most/many OpenStack clouds DO NOT inject into the instance and the password feature is null and void. Look at: enable_instance_password = *True* (BoolOpt) Enables returning of the instance password by the relevant server API calls such as create, r

Re: [Openstack] dumb neutron question

2016-06-04 Thread David Medberry
to the neutron router (but I suspect it doesn't really care if your provider net is RFC 1918 or not. On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 11:59 AM, David Medberry wrote: > Of course, there are almost always two routers on a subnet... (unless it > is the end of the line). What makes you think

Re: [Openstack] dumb neutron question

2016-06-04 Thread David Medberry
Of course, there are almost always two routers on a subnet... (unless it is the end of the line). What makes you think the neutron router has to be at .1? Mine are typically .1 on the VM side (but it is totally fine to use something else) and not .1 on the provider side. On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:

Re: [Openstack] KVM & Hyper-V Performance

2016-05-12 Thread David Medberry
Which drivers (virtio) did you use in the Windows instances? On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: > On 05/12/2016 08:52 AM, gulseren bulut wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I done some tests for windows virtual server on KVM and Hyper-V. >> >> All resources of VMs is same. >> >> VM OS: W

Re: [Openstack] Openstack powered Public cloud

2016-04-26 Thread David Medberry
Hi Jaison, This is an issue that the Neutron team is aware. They will likely be addressing this (at some point) but your understanding aligns with my own. So, public IPV4 usage is a well known, well documented issue and DVR / HA exacerbates it. On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Jaison Peter wrote

Re: [Openstack] Building a new CentOS 6.7 glance image

2016-03-26 Thread David Medberry
There are "official" Centos 6 images here: http://cloud.centos.org/centos/6/images/ On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Jagga Soorma wrote: > Ahhh.. got further.. looks like eth0 was set to onboot=no :( rebooting > with onboot=yes gets me a bit further but the curl is still failing.. > attached is

Re: [Openstack] Cells: *how* experimental?

2016-01-28 Thread David Medberry
Cells v2 is in active development. If you can wait a bit longer and upgrade/reinstall with Mitaka and v2 you will be in a better place. Hopefully a nova core will weigh in to tell me I'm on or off track with that comment. Kris Lindgren also keeps a pretty good eye on this and I've cc'd him. On Thu

Re: [Openstack] Building DevStack

2015-09-02 Thread David Medberry
http://www.slideshare.net/SajuMadhavan/open-stack-devstack-screen-commands-and-key-bindings may be more current. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:57 PM, David Medberry wrote: > Be aware that there is a "screen" session running with each of the > services. If you go to the appropria

Re: [Openstack] Building DevStack

2015-09-02 Thread David Medberry
Be aware that there is a "screen" session running with each of the services. If you go to the appropriate screen in the screen session and then "Ctrl-C" therein and hit up arrow return, you'll basically be restarting just that service. This may be out of date but give it a try: http://www.rushiag

Re: [Openstack] Nova boot from volume problem after Kilo upgrade

2015-08-26 Thread David Medberry
Seen similar issues. There are some known glance issues and also so nova filter issues going on by default. I'd look at enabling "verbose=True" in Nova and seeing if you can get closer to the truth of what's going on and then tail the nova logs. We've put that down in our runbooks as a best practi

Re: [Openstack] Tokyo - Accepted papers list

2015-08-25 Thread David Medberry
It's due out any time (this week). On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Balaji Narayanan (பாலாஜி நாராயணன்) < li...@balajin.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know when will the list of papers accepted for Tokyo be > published? Given that it takes approx 5 weeks for visa, it would be > great if this co

Re: [Openstack] changing hostname by changing instance name

2015-08-14 Thread David Medberry
). On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:45 AM, mad Engineer wrote: > so is editing cloudinit manually the only way to change hostname?.I wonder > how would it get the instance name as hostname during build state. > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:06 PM, David Medberry > wrote: > >> Thi

Re: [Openstack] [KILO] [CEPH] Live Migration failure

2015-08-14 Thread David Medberry
c > Second compute : 899f90c8-e8e8-47b7-8d25-3e14fc2f270a > > but, # virsh secret-get-value uuid gave me same results on my two nodes > > > Regards, > > > > 2015-08-14 3:22 GMT+02:00 David Medberry : > >> Yep, exactly what Mike Smith says. >> >> sud

Re: [Openstack] [KILO] [CEPH] Live Migration failure

2015-08-13 Thread David Medberry
Yep, exactly what Mike Smith says. sudo virsh secret-list # should list one or more on nova-compute nodes using ceph sudo virsh secret-get-value $UUID #from the previous should have a value that looks something like: AQDoABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZoA/A That value come from a ceph keyring. On Thu

Re: [Openstack] [Cinder] juno->kilo migration errors

2015-08-03 Thread David Medberry
The column type for the foreign keys don't match EXACTLY. (Strings). They have to be exact in value and the collation order must be the same. Two issues: a character set (UTFetc) and the collation order must be IDENTICAL. It will use the database default if you don't SET it in the new column..

Re: [Openstack] [all] OpenStack voting by the numbers

2015-07-29 Thread David Medberry
This is just different projects. The vote numbers won't be public for a day or two, if ever. The votes don't fully determine what gets selected. The Track Chairpeople make those final calls. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Perry, Sean wrote: > Where are the actual vote numbers? How did you acq

Re: [Openstack] [Openstack-operators] [all] OpenStack voting by the numbers

2015-07-29 Thread David Medberry
Nice writeup maish! very nice. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: > Some of my thoughts on the Voting process. > > > http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2015/07/openstack-summit-voting-by-numbers.html > > Guess which category has the most number of submissions?? > ;) > > -

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] [Disaster Recovery] How can you do it?

2015-07-06 Thread David Medberry
hot? > > Thank you all, > Giuseppe > > 2015-07-06 18:40 GMT+02:00 David Medberry : > >> Giuseppe, >> >> A great deal of Disaster Recovery planning relies on you / your >> organization to define what they mean by DR planning. Yes, Nova snaps >&

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] [Disaster Recovery] How can you do it?

2015-07-06 Thread David Medberry
Giuseppe, A great deal of Disaster Recovery planning relies on you / your organization to define what they mean by DR planning. Yes, Nova snaps (instance snaps) and Cinder snaps (volume snaps) can be used in DR. Additionally, depending on your architecture you can utilize Swift (if it is geo distr

Re: [Openstack] [openstack][opendaylight]

2015-06-20 Thread David Medberry
-tunnels/ On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:59 AM, David Medberry wrote: > https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OpenStack_and_OpenDaylight > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:53 PM, chinasubbareddy m < > subbareddy.openst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> could you ple

Re: [Openstack] [openstack][opendaylight]

2015-06-20 Thread David Medberry
https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OpenStack_and_OpenDaylight On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:53 PM, chinasubbareddy m < subbareddy.openst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > could you please guide me good blogs for integrating opeack and > opendaylight ? > > > Regards, > subbareddy. > > _

Re: [Openstack] Insanity check: Kilo-Keystone w/ Juno-everything else

2015-06-11 Thread David Medberry
We have run with (really) Liberty keystone, Liberty horizon and everything else Juno. I suspect you can do this mixed thing as long as you pay careful attention. Likewise, when we upgrade our TWO REGIONAL DATACENTERS we always do one and then the next a couple days later, so all of our upgrades h

Re: [Openstack] Glance Images

2015-06-04 Thread David Medberry
I think the best practices are to use the operating system's cloud images (and not bake them yourself.) Ie: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ http://www.cloudbase.it/ws2012r2/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_images etc Converting a running instance into an image for glance is a worst practice

Re: [Openstack] Additional Grizzly releases?

2013-12-17 Thread David Medberry
This page, presumably correct, shows one more Grizzly release in March: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StableBranchRelease Planned stable/grizzly releases 2013.1.5 Mar 20 2014 On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Drew Fisher wrote: > Are there plans for additional Grizzly releases, or is Hava

Re: [Openstack] Summit Sessions

2013-07-30 Thread David Medberry
Anne, it does appear to have been "stuck" for some time. -dave On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jarret Raim > wrote: > >> Two quick questions. >> >> >> When you sign up to present presentations at the summit, you enter your >> name

Re: [Openstack] Summit Sessions

2013-07-29 Thread David Medberry
If you want to be a speaker at the conference, go here: http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/become-a-speaker/ The Icehouse design summit doesn't appear to be up yet (it still refers to the Havana Design Summit which was last April.) On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:48 AM,