Re: Ansible deploy cloudstack and add zone

2019-07-24 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Hi Li, We are using Ansible to build and manage capacity of our cloudstack environments end to end. From setting up zones, projects, networks, compute offering, pods, clusters and hosts. Make sure to use current Ansible 2.8 or newer. See

Re: Using S3/Minio as the only secondary storage

2019-07-17 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
h are used by the > hosts. > > I think Pierre-Luc and Syed have a clearer picture of all the moving > pieces, but that is a quick summary of what I know without digging in. > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > > Will > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 10:24 PM Jean-Francois Nade

Using S3/Minio as the only secondary storage

2019-07-16 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Hello Everyone, I was wondering if it was common or even recommended to use an S3 compatible storage system as the only secondary storage provider ? The environment is 4.11.3.0 with KVM (Centos 7.6), and our tier1 storage solution also provides an S3 compatible object store (apparently Minio

Help with configDrive label issue/discrepancy

2019-05-02 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Good morning all, I have this strange configDrive problem that shows up on 4.11.2 and only if upgraded from 4.9. This problems shows up with the DefaultL2NetworkOfferingConfigDriveVlan network offering In lab and a fresh 4.11.2.0 install, the configDrive enabled network will present an ISO to

SSVM, templates and managed storage (iscsi/KVM)... how does it work ?

2019-03-03 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Hi all, Im kicking the tires with managed storage with under 4.11.2 with KVM and Datera as primary storage. My first attempt at creating a VM from a template stored on NFS secondary failed silently. Looking at the SSVM cloud logs I saw no exception. The VM root disks gets properly created on

Re: L2+ConfigDrive

2019-02-12 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Paul, Is it true to say that parameter can only be enabled if you have NFS primary storage enabled in the zone ?Or is there any chance this works with managed storage ? best, Jfn On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:29 AM Paul Angus wrote: > Great to hear that, thanks for letting us know! > >

Re: Hyper-V with ACS

2018-11-20 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
We did a quick test with HyperV 2016 under 4.9.3 and some APIs changed in hyperv we believed prevented us to deploy a zone correctly. We did not investigate further. On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 6:18 AM Andrija Panic wrote: > Hi all, > > anyone has experience with running Hyper-V with CloudStack,

Re: Runing cloudstack failed in docker

2018-11-05 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Just by the look of the "Protocol family unavailable" error can you disable IPv6 in the JVm startup script ? On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:37 AM li li wrote: > Hi ALL > > > I'm trying to encapsulate cloudstack 4.11 into docker. After build is > successful, cloudstack-management cannot function

Re: [VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.11.2.0 RC4

2018-11-05 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
-1 Only because we believe this issue is a regression upgrading from 4.9.3. Existing network offerings created under 4.9.3 should continue to work when creating new networks under 4.11.2. Please see https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/2989 best, Jfn On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 5:04 AM

Re: Problem creating networks after 4.11 upgrade

2018-11-05 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
: > Hi Eric & Jean-Francois, > Thanks for your work in testing. > There is an open vote, could you now (and in future) respond to the > thread, the official vote will/would pass as it stands. (I only caught this > through doing a final sweep of the mailing lists). > > @Jea

Re: Problem creating networks after 4.11 upgrade

2018-11-05 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Test was on 4.11.2rc3. will send to dev list

Problem creating networks after 4.11 upgrade

2018-11-04 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
I all, I was wondering if anyone else had this problem after upgrading from 4.9. All our networks are using a custom network offering with no services defined since the physical network provides DHCP and DNS. Environment is CentOS 7, KVM with the openvswitch driver. Now after the upgrade to

Re: Host HA vs transient NFS problems on KVM

2018-10-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
t a lot more > attention than Jira. > > > - Si > > > ____ > From: Jean-Francois Nadeau > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:32 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Host HA vs transient NFS problems on KVM > > I will

Re: Host HA vs transient NFS problems on KVM

2018-10-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
, I > > agree, but it is far better to be woken up at 3am to deal with > restarting a > > handful of vms and perhaps a KVM host force reboot than dealing with mass > > KVM hosts reboots and/or trying to find duplicate vms lurking somewhere > on > > the host servers. Been

Host HA vs transient NFS problems on KVM

2018-10-22 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Dear community, I want to share my concern upgrading from 4.9 to 4.11 in regards to how the host HA framework works and the handling of various failure conditions. Since we have been running CS on 4.9.3 with NFS on KVM, VM HA have been working as expected when hypervisor crashed and I agree

Re: New SSVM wont start after upgrade from 4.9.3 to 4.11.2rc3

2018-10-19 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
late seems find but it may be possible that an older > systemvm.iso has patched the systemvm which is why you're seeing the error. > > > - Rohit > > <https://cloudstack.apache.org> > > > > ________ > From: Jean-Francois Nadeau &

Re: New SSVM wont start after upgrade from 4.9.3 to 4.11.2rc3

2018-10-19 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Same on the systemvmtemplate-4.11.0-kvm.qcow2 image I guess I don't understand how the template gets customized and why it doesn't work for us. On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:09 AM Jean-Francois Nadeau < the.jfnad...@gmail.com> wrote: > So at first I did not upgrade the agent thinkin

Re: New SSVM wont start after upgrade from 4.9.3 to 4.11.2rc3

2018-10-19 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
gt; > - Rohit > > <https://cloudstack.apache.org> > > > > ________ > From: Jean-Francois Nadeau > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 2:13:16 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: New SSVM wont start after upgrade from 4.9.3 to 4.11.2rc3 > &g

New SSVM wont start after upgrade from 4.9.3 to 4.11.2rc3

2018-10-18 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
hi all, After upgrading from 4.9.3 to 4.11.2rc3 on centos7/KVM, the old SSMV were running and working fine until I destroyed them to get them on the current version (I uploaded the 4.11.2rc3 template before the upgrade) Now whatever I do there's nothing running on the new Console proxy VM Oct

Re: How exactly does CloudStack stop a VM?

2018-06-06 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
If the xentools are installed and running in the guest OS it should detect the shutdown sent via XAPI. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Yiping Zhang wrote: > We are using XenServers with our CloudStack instances. > > On 6/6/18, 3:11 PM, "Jean-Francois Nadeau" > wrote:

Re: How exactly does CloudStack stop a VM?

2018-06-06 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
On KVM, AFAIK the shutdown is the equivalent of pressing the power button. To get the Linux OS to catch this and initiate a clean shutdown, you need the ACPID service running in the guest OS. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Yiping Zhang wrote: > Hi, all: > > We have a few VM instances which

Re: New L2 nework types are not shared

2018-01-25 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
t; > > > > > boris.stoya...@shapeblue.com > > www.shapeblue.com > > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > > @shapeblue > > > > > > > >> On 23 Jan 2018, at 16:23, Jean-Francois Nadeau <the.jfnad...@gmail.com> > wrote: >

Re: New L2 nework types are not shared

2018-01-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
now that we are > doing testing for 4.11. > > HTH > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro<http://www.nux.ro> > > > boris.stoya...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London

Re: [PROPOSE] EOL for supported OSes & Hypervisors

2018-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
+1 On the versions of ACS in the matrix. I.e. it sounds like today most production setup runs 4.9 or before and until 4.11 is GA and stabilizes it sounds like 4.9 is the only good option for a go live today. Knowing how long 4.9 would be supported is key. On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Ron

New L2 nework types are not shared

2018-01-17 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Hi all, I'm testing 4.11-rc1 and the new L2 network type feature as shown at http://www.shapeblue.com/layer-2-networks-in-cloudstack/ I want to use this as a replacement to a shared network offering with no DHCP which works to support an external DHCP server but still required to fill some CIDR

Re: Recover VM after KVM host down (and HA not working) ?

2017-12-27 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
. On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Jean-Francois Nadeau < the.jfnad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Clearly the management server doesn't realize the instance on the failed > host is not running... but the host is in Alert state and powered down, > and missing NFS heartbeats. > > 20

Re: Recover VM after KVM host down (and HA not working) ?

2017-12-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
-66fbe484) (logid:1f53cd63) Found 0 VM, not running on host 4 Next step ? On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Jean-Francois Nadeau < the.jfnad...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd really like to get at the bottom of this.It does sound like the > behavior mentioned in https://issues.apache.org/ &

Re: Recover VM after KVM host down (and HA not working) ?

2017-12-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
I'd really like to get at the bottom of this.It does sound like the behavior mentioned in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-5582 but should be long fixed. One suspect log entry (be unrelated) I noticed is this recurring exception in the manger logs : ERROR

Recover VM after KVM host down (and HA not working) ?

2017-12-22 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Good morning, New to ACS and doing a POC with 4.10 on Centos 7 and KVM. Im trying to recover VMs after an host failure (powered off from OOB). Primary storage is NFS and IPMI is configured for the KVM hosts. Zone is advanced mode with vlan separation and created a shared network with no