[Openstack] Support options

2014-06-19 Thread Ian Marshall
Hi Does anyone know of any companies offering commercial support for small deployments - 4 nodes and manual deployment of Icehouse. Regards Ian ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lis

[Openstack] Ubuntu 14.04 Icehouse nova-compute installation on controller node

2014-05-25 Thread Ian Marshall
Hi I am following the installation document for my OS and have found an issue relating to the default nova.conf file. This is the contents of the /etc/nova/nova.conf after running the following --- apt-get install nova-api nova-cert nova-conductor nova-consoleauth nova-novncproxy nova-scheduler

[Openstack] Icehouse Neutron - Ubuntu 14.04 openvswitch [ovs] requirements on hosts

2014-05-23 Thread Ian Marshall
HI I am building my first openstack system, using Ubuntu 14.04 with Icehouse and based on a combined controller/network node's and compute node's. I have decided to use ML2 with ovs plugin and gre/vxlan. My issue is what [if anything] of the ovs applications are required on the hosts, there are n

Re: [Openstack] Storage Nodes

2014-04-08 Thread Ian Marshall
least ceph has > the ability to stripe access across many nodes, and therefore many more > disks, per volume. > > - Darren > > > On 8 April 2014 12:55, Ian Marshall wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I am considering storage nodes for my small production dep

[Openstack] Storage Nodes

2014-04-08 Thread Ian Marshall
Hi All I am considering storage nodes for my small production deployment. I have rejected Ceph as I cant get confidence that performance will be Ok without SSD drives. I need to be able to boot from block storage, do live migrations and create snapshots which could be used to create new instances

Re: [Openstack] Ceph as unified storage solution

2014-04-04 Thread Ian Marshall
Hi 'All' Thanks for your responses, If going with a Ceph storage solution, the plan would be to use two R720xds per site with each having 128Gb RAM, 10gbe network connections and 24 x 600Gb 10k SAS drives for each storage server with each disk being a single OSD setup as RAID0. Regards Ian

[Openstack] Ceph as unified storage solution

2014-04-03 Thread Ian Marshall
Hi I am implementing a small Openstack production system across two sites. This will initially have 2 controller nodes (also acting as network nodes) and 2 compute nodes at each site. Network up to hadware load balancers will be 10gbe. Expectation is we will be running about 80-100 VMs at each