Re: [Openstack-operators] Openstack deployment tool advice

2015-02-11 Thread Christian Berendt
On 02/09/2015 12:38 PM, Pedro Sousa wrote: > I'm looking into some options to deploy Openstack. I use RDO based Juno > distro and had been using packstack tool (based on puppet) to deploy it, > but it's not flexible enough as it lacks some features, as HA. Packstack does not lack features like HA.

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Christian Berendt
On 02/06/2015 10:27 PM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote: > I’ve been building out a small cluster of intel NUC’s and have been > quite happy with them – reasonable performance, 16g ram, and usb3 if you > need storage. I think NUCs are a greate choice. According to http://liliputing.com/2015/01/intel-unv

Re: [Openstack-operators] [cinder] Driver Filters and Goodness Weighers... Who plans to use this?

2015-02-11 Thread Christian Berendt
On 02/11/2015 07:54 AM, Mike Perez wrote: > Proposed Documentation: > http://thing.ee/x/doc-20150210/content/driver_filter_weighing.html Thank you for bringing this to the attention of this list. There is a pending review for this documentation available at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/152325/

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Will Snow (wasnow)
Yes, I was considering waiting for the new NUCs but they’re March (scheduled) which means general availability sometime after that. Which would make things a bit tight for my talk at Vancouver (if it gets accepted) --Will Snow was...@cisco.com Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering Mobile: +1-

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
3) no 10 gig. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM, matt wrote: > i dislike 2 things about the NUCs... > > 1) only a single interface > 2) no lights out management > > =/ > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) > wrote: > >> Yes, I was considering waiting for the new NUCs but th

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
i dislike 2 things about the NUCs... 1) only a single interface 2) no lights out management =/ On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote: > Yes, I was considering waiting for the new NUCs but they’re March > (scheduled) which means general availability sometime after that. >

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Will Snow (wasnow)
So as to 10g, it’s not like I’m going to use them for production :) I do miss LOM on the boxes tho – the dual interface would be nice, but I can work around that. I have a covey (pod? Gaggle?) of 4 NUCs with 1 being the master to deploy the others. That master has 2 nics (built in 1g, wifi) so y

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On 2/11/15 9:12 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote: I do miss LOM on the boxes tho – the dual interface would be nice, but I can work around that. I have a covey (pod? Gaggle?) of 4 NUCs with 1 being the master to deploy the others. That master has 2 nics (built in 1g, wifi) so you can very easily conn

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
the lack of lom is... difficult in this use case. more so than any of the other 3 defficiencies i listed. I wonder if an after market lom board exists. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 2/11/15 9:12 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote: > >> I do miss LOM on the boxes tho – t

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Christian Berendt
On 02/11/2015 05:29 PM, matt wrote: > 2) no lights out management If you only have to turn on/off the NUCs have a look at reBot provided by cloudbase. http://www.cloudbase.it/rebot/ Christian. ___ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
i mean for on and off i can just install a networked mcu. that's easy. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Christian Berendt wrote: > On 02/11/2015 05:29 PM, matt wrote: > > 2) no lights out management > > If you only have to turn on/off the NUCs have a look at reBot provided > by cloudbase. > >

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
for the record rebot is a terrible solution. Any mcu's gpio should be able to take over for the on / off switch and provide digital control of the power on. also you could add in power line relays very easily for hard reboots. the trick is terminal services and vga bios output. how do you reset

[Openstack-operators] Neutron db syncs

2015-02-11 Thread Kris G. Lindgren
Does anyone know why under Juno (and I assume above) - you need to install *ALL* of the plugins in order to do a db_sync? This seems broken considering that we pass the config file in as a command line parameter. The db_sync code should know what plugins we are running and only apply things th

Re: [Openstack-operators] Neutron db syncs

2015-02-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On 2/11/15 11:10 AM, Kris G. Lindgren wrote: Does anyone know why under Juno (and I assume above) - you need to install *ALL* of the plugins in order to do a db_sync? This seems broken considering that we pass the config file in as a command line parameter. The db_sync code should know what plu

Re: [Openstack-operators] [cinder] Driver Filters and Goodness Weighers... Who plans to use this?

2015-02-11 Thread Marc Heckmann
Hi, On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 12:39 +0100, Christian Berendt wrote: > On 02/11/2015 07:54 AM, Mike Perez wrote: > > Proposed Documentation: > > http://thing.ee/x/doc-20150210/content/driver_filter_weighing.html > > Thank you for bringing this to the attention of this list. There is a > pending review

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-dc53427hye.html has intel AMT apparently. this is an intel only lom like thing. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:55 PM, matt wrote: > for the record rebot is a terrible solution. Any mcu's gpio should be > able to take over for the on / off switch a

[Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-11 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
Is Ceilometer ready for prime time? I would be interested in hearing from people who have deployed OpenStack clouds with Ceilometer, and their experience. Some of the topics I am looking for feedback on are: - Database Size - MongoDB management, Sharding, replica sets etc. - Replication strat

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-02-11 12:27:42 -0500 (-0500), matt wrote: > the lack of lom is... difficult in this use case.  more so than > any of the other 3 defficiencies i listed. [...] According to a little searching, it seems that the Ivy Bridge based i5 NUCs (not the Haswell based ones) have Intel AMT support. Th

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
yeah i found that and was reading... i mean it sucks it's not ipmi compatible... but at least it's something. would NEVER use in prod without interface isolation. but for a demo rig it kinda works. still wish the nuc had a second interface... even more so now. -matt On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Abel Lopez
There is DIY LOM for the NUC, it was demo'd at Paris Summit. It was quite elegant, featuring LEGO Mindstorm robots being instructed to push the power button. > On Feb 11, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote: > > So as to 10g, it’s not like I’m going to use them for production :) > > I

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On 2/11/15 12:19 PM, Abel Lopez wrote: There is DIY LOM for the NUC, it was demo'd at Paris Summit. It was quite elegant, featuring LEGO Mindstorm robots being instructed to push the power button. Remote power is not LOM. Remote power could be done with a sufficient power strip. Real LOM is r

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
Okay for clarity... a mechanical solution to pushing the buttons on the NUC is of Rube Goldberg complexity. It is completely unnecessary and hellaciously prone to failure. You can literally wire into where the on / off switch is... or optimally directly to the jumper on the board itself with a mi

Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread matt
Jesse the AMT looks like it may work in so far as functionality... but it requires unix utility amttool in place of ipmitool. I'll report back on how these work for me.. I just ordered 4 for testing. Only that one model of the NUCs has AMT support with vpro on it. So if you do go nuc http:/

Re: [Openstack-operators] [cinder] Driver Filters and Goodness Weighers... Who plans to use this?

2015-02-11 Thread Richard Raseley
Marc Heckmann wrote: > I can definitely relate to the problem that it's trying to solve. We > have a backend that has both thin-provisioning and compression. Right > now, we have no easy way to filter which storage node that a volume > should be created on if compression and thin provisioning is to

[Openstack-operators] qvb level filter

2015-02-11 Thread Yaron Illouz
Title: qvb level filter Hi I am trying to do port mirroring between vms. I did it with the openvswitch. Packet are copied to the mirrored qvo, but then stop at the qvb Rx. I don't see where it is stuck. >From iptable output it dosen't seem to be drop in one of the chain or many packe

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-11 Thread George Shuklin
Ceilometer is in sad state. 1. Collector leaks memory. We ran it on same host with mongo, and it grab 29Gb out of 32, leaving mongo with less than gig memory available. 2. Metering agent cause huge load on neutron-server. o(n) of metering rules and tenants. Few bugs reported, one bugfix in revi

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-11 Thread Zeng, Bryant
@Maish Saidel-Keesing, Hi Maish, I’m from eBay Inc, and we’re enabling 1000+ ceilometer compute agents. Hope our experience could help. We choose an OpenTSDB backend instead of MongoDB in the first place, so we avoid of most of the issues related to MongoDB. However, during deployment, we stil