Re: [Openstack-operators] Flavors

2017-03-16 Thread Adam Lawson
with openStack, this kind of thing is rather easy to do. //adam *Adam Lawson* Principal Architect, CEO Office: +1-916-794-5706 On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Jonathan D. Proulx <j...@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > > I have always hated flavors and so do many of my users. > > On Wed,

[Openstack-operators] [Neutron][Contrail] packet flow

2017-03-07 Thread Adam Lawson
the amount of VM traffic flowing through it. That seems completely wacky to me as I expect the control plane to handle administrative tasks only - not production traffic. Did something fundamentally change of which I'm unaware? //adam *Adam Lawson* Principal Architect, CEO Office: +1-916-794-5706

[Openstack-operators] [Neutron] Prefer local Neutron nodes?

2017-01-25 Thread Adam Lawson
nodes in all racks? *Example:* 6 racks,3 dedicated Neutron nodes per rack //adam *Adam Lawson* Principal Architect, CEO Office: +1-916-794-5706 ___ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Glance] [Nova] Multiple backends / Qcow Derived Images

2017-01-04 Thread Adam Lawson
that it is but i want to confirm that. Also, derived images is a QCOW thing[1], I'm wondering if creating these dynamically is supported by Nova and/or Glance. [1] http://nairobi-embedded.org/manipulating_disk_images_with_qemu-img.html#creating-derived-images //adam *Adam Lawson* Principal Architect

[Openstack-operators] [Glance] [Nova] Multiple backends / Qcow Derived Images

2017-01-03 Thread Adam Lawson
and imageY on ComputeY)? //adam *Adam Lawson* Principal Architect, CEO Office: +1-916-794-5706 ___ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators

[Openstack-operators] [Neutron][LBaaS] Architecture/Wiring for LBaaS service extension

2016-10-18 Thread Adam Lawson
://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/File:Lbaas_arch.JPG //adam *Adam Lawson* Principal Architect, CEO Office: +1-916-794-5706 ___ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators

[Openstack-operators] [ansible] Best practice for single interface cconfig

2016-09-28 Thread Adam Lawson
://docs.openstack.org/developer/openstack-ansible/install-guide/overview-host-layout.html#test-environment [3] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/openstack-ansible/install-guide/app-targethosts-networkexample.html#test-environment //adam *Adam Lawson* Principal Architect, CEO Office: +1-916-794-5706

Re: [Openstack-operators] Nova

2016-09-07 Thread Adam Lawson
to kernel 3.13.x-generic. Have you run into this or has anyone else run into this before? I'm CC'ing a colleague who can offer additional insight. //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International

Re: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack Consult Opp (Network/Horizon/VNC)

2016-09-04 Thread Adam Lawson
I can connect you with a sales rep if you'd like. (I'm on the integration > side, not sales) > > John > > On Sep 3, 2016 7:40 PM, "Adam Lawson" <alaw...@aqorn.com> wrote: > >> Is anyone *against* creating a mailing-list this sort of dialog? It's

Re: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack Consult Opp (Network/Horizon/VNC)

2016-09-03 Thread Adam Lawson
i ask because I have another opportunity but I don't know where to evangelize it if not among those who might be interested. //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660

Re: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack Consult Opp (Network/Horizon/VNC)

2016-09-03 Thread Adam Lawson
the last I heard of it. //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072 On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Robert Starmer <rob...@kumul.us> wrote

Re: [Openstack-operators] Nova

2016-09-02 Thread Adam Lawson
as being a firm requirement but I've never ever heard of such a requirement unless we're debating KVM versus ESXi so I wanted to get my facts straight before I confirmed to the team one way or another. //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801

[Openstack-operators] Nova

2016-09-02 Thread Adam Lawson
Hey everyone, do specific versions of OpenStack necessitate specific versions of guest os's? I.e. if I'm running a mitaka cloud platform, do the guest vm operating systems need to be a specific version of Linux? My understanding is the two are totally unrelated when the VM's are running Linux but

Re: [Openstack-operators] VPNaaS and FWaaS

2016-05-19 Thread Adam Lawson
this go IF it being addressed elsewhere in some other manner. //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072 On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Joseph

[Openstack-operators] [Cinder] Question about cinder API v2

2016-05-16 Thread Adam Lawson
When I request cinder pool capacity and usage via cinder's API v2, is my client talking to the backend storage directly or cached information stored in the DB? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext

[Openstack-operators] [Neutron][Contrail] openvswitch between brother and VM's?

2016-04-27 Thread Adam Lawson
Hey all, Is it possible to put an OpenVSwitch between local VM's on a compute host and its local vRouter so that VM's use the local vRouter and if that fails or crashes, OpenVSwitch connects the VM's to a vRouter on another compute host nearby? Trying to solve for potential vRouter crashing...

[Openstack-operators] 3 OpenStack Summit Full Passes Available

2016-04-12 Thread Adam Lawson
to do whatever we wanted to do with the passes we don't use with our summit sponsorship). We also have 6 Expo/Keynote Only passes available as well if that is of interest to anyone. Thanks! //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll

Re: [Openstack-operators] [neutron][ml2] Gutting ML2 from Neutron - possible?

2016-04-01 Thread Adam Lawson
Hi Dan - thanks I think that answers the core plugin question. What is Contrail doing with the Neutron service plugin? Are there two plugins? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International

[Openstack-operators] [Contrail][DevStack] contrail-installer error

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Lawson
know the work-around? [1] https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-installer/issues/113 //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072

[Openstack-operators] [vmware][nova] "could not find capabilities for domaintype=kvm"

2016-03-04 Thread Adam Lawson
= Supported Is there any obvious ways to solve this or clarify whether this is a physical or ESX configuration issue? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct

Re: [Openstack-operators] Setting affinity based on instance type

2016-03-03 Thread Adam Lawson
Mathieu, Blame it on my scattered brain but I'm now curious. How would this be approached practically speaking? I.e. how would ram_weight_multiplier enable the scenario I mentioned in my earliest post ? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware

Re: [Openstack-operators] Setting affinity based on instance type

2016-03-02 Thread Adam Lawson
are capacity and no way to utilize it. So I want to set an affinity for workloads and not at the host level. That way, hosts remain fungible, workload affinity policies are respected and cloud capacity is properly utilizing capacity. Does that make sense? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Ta

Re: [Openstack-operators] Workload Management (post-instantiation)

2016-03-02 Thread Adam Lawson
s Lindgren > Senior Linux Systems Engineer > GoDaddy > > From: Edgar Magana <edgar.mag...@workday.com> > Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 4:31 PM > To: Adam Lawson <alaw...@aqorn.com>, " > openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org" < > openstack-oper

Re: [Openstack-operators] Setting affinity based on instance type

2016-03-02 Thread Adam Lawson
with its own affinity to stick together and an Anti-Affinity policy for the two Types to avoid being hosted on the same machine (not necessarily prevention but avoidance). Does that make sense? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230

[Openstack-operators] Setting affinity based on instance type

2016-03-02 Thread Adam Lawson
with instance Type B? Basically I have no requirement for server-group affinity but rather to ensure specific workloads are as separate as possible. Thoughts? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101

[Openstack-operators] Workload Management (post-instantiation)

2016-03-02 Thread Adam Lawson
VM's as needed to ensure hosts resource consumption is balanced over time? It seems the scheduler addresses capacity at the time of instantiation but there's nothing that addresses optimal usage AFTER the VM is initially placed. Thoughts/experiences? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North

[Openstack-operators] Cloud Upgrade Strategies

2016-03-02 Thread Adam Lawson
strategies, I'm also curious how the rest of you are handling disruptive tasks (for example replacing a vRouter with a newer version, updating the SQL schema etc etc)? Just looking to learn from everyone's experiences to hopefully keep my own thinking on where it needs to be. Thanks!!! //adam *Adam

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Neutron][DVR] point of encapsulation/locating routing tables

2016-02-18 Thread Adam Lawson
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Adam Lawson <alaw...@aqorn.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > > > Got a quick question for those of you with some knowledge of OVS and > > namespaces within the context of DVR. > > > > I'm trying to document exactly where namespaces

[Openstack-operators] [Neutron][DVR] point of encapsulation/locating routing tables

2016-02-16 Thread Adam Lawson
or someone able to explain this quick and dirty? The question came up today is if we use tunnels, where does encapsulation occur and where are the tables maintained and what data specifically sits in each of those tables. Is this an easy question to answer? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427

Re: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack Consult Opp (Network/Horizon/VNC)

2016-02-03 Thread Adam Lawson
Hey all, Just curious how this was progressing. Is there an approval waiting to happen or something in the background? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660

[Openstack-operators] [Fuel] Trying to get past a 6.1 deployment error

2016-01-19 Thread Adam Lawson
on node fuel.fuel.tld Thoughts/suggestions? Trying to build a Contrail demo in my lab. All nodes are VMware instances. I'm suspecting it has something to do with the Pacemaker VIP but I'm not clear on the path forward to resolve. //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Consult Opp (Network/Horizon/VNC)

2015-11-24 Thread Adam Lawson
a decent network/Neutron person and have some time this week and/or next week for some excellent scratch? If available, we'll get you ramped up like immediately and guaranteed we will make it worth your while. ; ) Ping me offline if interested ASAP? Thanks!! //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North

Re: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack Consult Opp (Network/Horizon/VNC)

2015-11-24 Thread Adam Lawson
Yep. I knew I was walking a gray line. If I had time to let folks know about an opportunity and wait for folks to visit and reply I totally would. Otherwise, I would definitely echo a job-related mailing list if that could be setup? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Nova] Question about starting nova as service versus directly

2015-11-20 Thread Adam Lawson
Thanks I will remember this! Unfortunately the image is long gone but very good info to keep handy. What exactly does upstart do by the way (as I check the log on a known working image)? //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll

[Openstack-operators] [Nova] Question about starting nova as service versus directly

2015-11-19 Thread Adam Lawson
reverted the image to a previously-known good state. Does anyone have an idea why this happens and how to correct? I checked and /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf file looked correct and /etc/nova/nova.conf as well via the root_helper parameter. //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceph] Different storage types on different disk types

2015-10-28 Thread Adam Lawson
; servers, so via separate hardware), >> - a combination of the two, >> - geographical location (with a second Ceph instance in another data >> centre). >> >> I think it is absolutely realistic/manageable to use the same Ceph >> cluster for various use cases. >&g

[Openstack-operators] [Ceph] Different storage types on different disk types

2015-10-26 Thread Adam Lawson
practice) on using the same Ceph cluster for both use cases... //adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Neutron] public and private fixed IPs

2015-10-26 Thread Adam Lawson
be attached to the same network so that instances >>> in non-routable tenant networks can obtain floating IPs from the same >>> 'public' network. At one time non-admin users were not allowed to attach >>> VMs to 'external' networks but I believe that restriction was remo

[Openstack-operators] [Fuel] Need help with Fuel's VNC settings

2015-10-22 Thread Adam Lawson
nt_address=192.168.1.7 (I changed this manually; I know it should be IP of compute node -- can't remember which IP to use) *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct:

Re: [Openstack-operators] ephemeral storage

2015-10-16 Thread Adam Lawson
The path to where the disk files are kept I believe is var/lib/nova/instances. That's different than the default path used by kvm outside the context of OpenStack. Or try searching for libvirt.xml and you'll find the disks in the same directory/ies. On Oct 16, 2015 5:11 AM, "Federico Michele

Re: [Openstack-operators] Tokyo Ops Design Summit Tracks - Agenda on Sched

2015-10-11 Thread Adam Lawson
Do we have any interest in ways folks are installing OpenStack? I know we have a fair number of consultants on this making list who deploy for different companies, would be cool to do a show and tell for how folks are installing OpenStack or hear creative ways they manage new clouds with companies

Re: [Openstack-operators] Tokyo Ops Design Summit Tracks - Agenda on Sched

2015-10-11 Thread Adam Lawson
Or it could be how they're testing new clouds, metering successes for ISPs, how web hosts are using OpenStack with unique customers.. anything where we can hear what others are doing would be pretty great I think. On Oct 11, 2015 9:45 PM, "Adam Lawson" <alaw...@aqorn.com> wrote:

Re: [Openstack-operators] [VMware][neutron]nova-network

2015-10-04 Thread Adam Lawson
Hi Gilles, ESXi uses linuxbridges or are you referring to a multi hypervisor scenario? Curious you know the names in advance... On Oct 4, 2015 2:15 PM, "Gilles Mocellin" <gilles.mocel...@nuagelibre.org> wrote: > Le 04/10/2015 03:29, Adam Lawson a écrit : > >> >&

[Openstack-operators] [Swift] deploying behind apache?

2015-09-18 Thread Adam Lawson
Hey everyone, What are the advantages to deploying swift storage and/or proxy services behind apache versus not? Are there performance improvements that come into play at scale? Has this been addressed before and are there any conclusions drawn around these considerations I can read up on? /adam

[Openstack-operators] PXE chaining

2015-05-29 Thread Adam Lawson
clouds that do not use Ironic. *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072 ___ OpenStack-operators mailing list

Re: [Openstack-operators] [neutron] multiple external networks on the same host NIC

2015-04-27 Thread Adam Lawson
via VLAN#nnn? Is there any special Neuton handlers for traffic on one VLAN versus another? *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072 On Mon, Apr 27

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Neutron][Nova] No Valid Host when booting new VM with Public IP

2015-03-18 Thread Adam Lawson
prevent this from working, just trying to scope the boundaries of what I can and cannot do really. *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072 On Wed, Mar

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Neutron][Nova] No Valid Host when booting new VM with Public IP

2015-03-17 Thread Adam Lawson
That's what I was trying to do actually, uncertain if I could or not so I was trying... *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072 On Tue, Mar 17

[Openstack-operators] [Neutron][Nova] No Valid Host when booting new VM with Public IP

2015-03-16 Thread Adam Lawson
Any thoughts on what could be causing this? *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072 ___ OpenStack-operators

Re: [Openstack-operators] Fostering OpenStack Users

2015-01-01 Thread Adam Lawson
I apologize for my candor but sounds an awful like political candidates stating they understand what their constituents really want. We gotta avoid making claims of fact that are pure personal opinion, especially if our goal is market adoption of OpenStack and especially if we're deeply entrenched

Re: [Openstack-operators] Fostering OpenStack Users

2015-01-01 Thread Adam Lawson
that with a straight face one day. On Jan 1, 2015 5:14 PM, Adam Lawson alaw...@aqorn.com wrote: I apologize for my candor but sounds an awful like political candidates stating they understand what their constituents really want. We gotta avoid making claims of fact that are pure personal opinion, especially if our

[Openstack-operators] [Nova] bind vnic to phys nic

2014-10-25 Thread Adam Lawson
I hate requests like this but I've been asked one again how to bind a single vm to a physical NIC on a cookout node. Kicking and screaming I've tried to steer them away from this bad decision with no luck. So I have to ask, is this even possible within Openstack? I'm sure it's technically possible

Re: [Openstack-operators] Three Node Deployment Model

2014-10-23 Thread Adam Lawson
nodes so you need to make some concessions. Starting with motivation that begins your efforts within Openstack Docs per Anne. ; ) Mahalo, Adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302