Re: vCenter Patching - Stop Cloud Management Service?

2014-02-24 Thread Sean Hamilton
When I've patched vCenter servers in the past, the rough process I've followed is: If you can, disable the zone. Go to each cluster and click 'unmanage cluster' Update vCenter Go to each cluster and click 'manage cluster' Enable the zone. Allow CloudStack time to re-check the environment (a couple

Re: Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread Sean Hamilton
pervisor), right? > > Regards, > > -- > Ricardo Makino > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Sean Hamilton >wrote: > > > From memory, licensing your compute hosts as "Microsoft Datacenter > Edition" > > then you can run unlimited Windows instances on

Re: Software licensing in the cloud

2014-02-11 Thread Sean Hamilton
>From memory, licensing your compute hosts as "Microsoft Datacenter Edition" then you can run unlimited Windows instances on that host. If you're worried about having to license every host in your cloud, you could look at host tags and see if you can ensure instances built with Windows Templates ar

Can't start cloudstack-usage

2014-02-05 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hey guys, This morning our cloudstack-usage service fell over. When trying to start it with: sudo service cloudstack-usage start [same command I always use] I get this response: bash-4.1$ sudo service cloudstack-usage start Starting CloudStack Usage Monitor cloudstack-usage05/02/2014 04:19:54 3

Re: Not able to add primary Storage Cloudstack 4.3

2014-02-01 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi Tejas, What hypervisor are you using? I can't remember if CIFS is a valid protocol for hypervisors other than Hyper-V. NFS is used for other hypervisors. Cheers, Sean > On 1 Feb 2014, at 09:26, Tejas Gadaria wrote: > > Hi, > > While adding primary Storage I am getting > > > "cifs://10

Re: Move running vm to project

2014-01-20 Thread Sean Hamilton
0 mins ago and unfortunately it does not work > > Regards > > Geoff Higginbottom > > D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 > > geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com > > -Original Message- > From: Sean Hamilton [mailto:s...@seanhamilton.c

Re: Move running vm to project

2014-01-20 Thread Sean Hamilton
oing to be migrate to that user and not to a project. Unless the > 'master' account of a project has the ability to migrate its VMs to a > specific project since it can be master in more than one project. > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Sean Hamilton > wrote: > > I

Re: Move running vm to project

2014-01-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
Isn't there a master user account for a project? This account holds resources for that project, including vms. You could list all user accounts in a project and find the 'master' account and use migrate VM command? > On 19 Jan 2014, at 15:48, Rafael Weingartner > wrote: > > I saw that comma

Re: Change SCSI type in VMware

2014-01-17 Thread Sean Hamilton
n from ISO. > Please let me know how it goes. > > Regards, > Sateesh > >> -Original Message- >> From: Sean Hamilton [mailto:s...@seanhamilton.co.uk] >> Sent: 16 January 2014 22:58 >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Change SC

Re: Change SCSI type in VMware

2014-01-16 Thread Sean Hamilton
Thanks! On 16 January 2014 09:03, sebgoa wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Sean Hamilton > wrote: > > > It's out of my league too. Hope this comes in a release soon. > > > > I change the ticket to a 'Bug' and added 4.3 has a branch where t

Re: Change SCSI type in VMware

2014-01-15 Thread Sean Hamilton
It's out of my league too. Hope this comes in a release soon. On 9 January 2014 11:26, Erik Weber wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Sean Hamilton >wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > One of our users is trying to use Windows Server 2012 R2. > > On insta

Change SCSI type in VMware

2014-01-09 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi Guys, One of our users is trying to use Windows Server 2012 R2. On install they can't see the disk attached. I checked and it looks like Microsoft removed the LSI Logic Parallel driver from that OS. Changing the storage adapter to LSI Logic SAS should work (and does work in VMware). In CloudSta

Re: Improving SSVM performance

2013-12-05 Thread Sean Hamilton
id phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) > > -Original Message- > From: Sean Hamilton [s...@seanhamilton.co.uk] > Received: Monday, 02 Dec 2013, 10:10pm > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org [users@cloudstack.apache.org] > Subject: Re: Improving SSVM performance > &

Re: Unable to execute PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand

2013-12-05 Thread Sean Hamilton
> Would you mind filing a bug for this please ? > > Thanks, > -Nitin > > On 04/12/13 1:44 PM, "Sean Hamilton" wrote: > > >We're seeing a bug where cloudstack tries to spool a template from any > >secondary storage in any zone in a region to primary s

Re: Unable to execute PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand

2013-12-04 Thread Sean Hamilton
We're seeing a bug where cloudstack tries to spool a template from any secondary storage in any zone in a region to primary storage. DB selects show a rand() at the end, it took a few attempts to get the template onto primary storage. Must be a bug. > On 4 Dec 2013, at 13:23, John Skinner

Re: Improving SSVM performance

2013-12-02 Thread Sean Hamilton
odesk.com) > > -Original Message----- > From: Sean Hamilton [s...@seanhamilton.co.uk] > Received: Friday, 29 Nov 2013, 4:10am > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org [users@cloudstack.apache.org] > Subject: Improving SSVM performance > > We run 4.2 with VMware hypervisor

Improving SSVM performance

2013-11-28 Thread Sean Hamilton
We run 4.2 with VMware hypervisor. We'd like to improve the SSVM performance, specifically when exporting and deploying templates. Does anyone have any guides on doing this at all? Thanks, Sean

Re: Windows instance DNS entries being lost by AD DNS servers

2013-11-26 Thread Sean Hamilton
; > as soon I cycled the instance. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Kirk Jantzer > > http://about.me/kirkjantzer > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Sean Hamilton >wrote: > > > >> I've been experiencing this. > &

Re: Reg: Resource limit bug in account

2013-11-26 Thread Sean Hamilton
Did you manage to file a bug? Can you share the link? On 26 November 2013 05:46, wrote: > Hi, > > I have setup Primary Storage limits (GiB) -1 in cloudstack global > setting and created account. It setup account limit as some -1074678 gb. > This is major bug in resource limit. > > Auto snaps

Re: Windows instance DNS entries being lost by AD DNS servers

2013-11-25 Thread Sean Hamilton
I've been experiencing this. >From our experiences we've set the DNS servers on the instance to the IP addresses of the AD DNS servers. We also set the DNS search suffix list to include the DNS suffix for the AD domain. We haven't had anyone complain recently... On 25 November 2013 15:17, Kirk J

Re: stop VM and lost everything

2013-11-23 Thread Sean Hamilton
on't want to reinstall because there are a lot of important >> informations in my VM. >> >> Would you please tell me how to prevent things from bad to worse?Many >> thanks! >> >> - >> Best regards, >> Frank >> >> 2013/11/23, Sean

Re: stop VM and lost everything

2013-11-23 Thread Sean Hamilton
Did you un mount the ISO before stopping/starting your instance? Sounds like it's just trying to reinstall because your instance is booting from the ISO install media. > On 23 Nov 2013, at 12:28, Du Jun wrote: > > Hi all, > I booted a VM via ISO and then stoped it.When I start it again and I

Multiple simultaneous tasks in vCenter

2013-11-13 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi, We use VMware for our hypervisor layer and run 4.2.0. We've noticed that when a user creates a template from a volume, CloudStack creates a "Exporting OVF template" task in vCenter. This seems to stop any other commands from being issued into vCenter until this task has completed. Has anyone

VMware vCloud to CloudStack migration

2013-11-05 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi Guys, I have a user that is trying to export an instance from vCloud so that they can import into CloudStack. They've exported the .ova file which contains: - .ovf file - .vmdk file When they upload the template they get a deployment fail, I think that this is due to the metadata in the .ovf f

Re: set hostname of vm

2013-10-21 Thread Sean Hamilton
Jerry, What OS type are you using? > On 21 Oct 2013, at 04:47, "Jerry Jiang" wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > May I set the vm hostname automatically like what I want instead of uuid? > > > > JerryJiang >

Re: Windows Server 2012

2013-10-11 Thread Sean Hamilton
eveloper/converter-sdk/conv50_apireference/v > im.vm.GuestOsDescriptor.GuestOsIdentifier.html. > > Thanks > -min > > On 10/7/13 4:51 AM, "Erdősi Péter" wrote: > > >Dear, > > > >2013.10.07. 10:54 keltezéssel, Sean Hamilton írta: > >> Does anyone know where the

Windows Server 2012

2013-10-07 Thread Sean Hamilton
Does anyone know where the prerequisites are listed for running Windows Server 2012 in ACS 4.2? I'm running: vCenter 5.0 Update 1a vSphere hosts at 5.0 Update 2 I'm seeing that when I upload a 2012 template and mark it as that, the vms created have a guest OS type as "Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bi

Re: [POLL] Latency between Management Server and zones

2013-10-02 Thread Sean Hamilton
The max currently is around 140ms for us. We see a noticeable lag, but regions should sort that out. On 1 October 2013 17:58, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > [Apologize for the crosspost, but I think there may be answers from the > dev perspective] > [Also, this is poll / opinion question] > > What is

Re: Choosing VMWare SCSI Controller Type

2013-10-02 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hey Chris, What version of CS are you running? I've seen a bug in the "Register Template" screen. If you select the location for the template it should open up more options, one of which is the HDD adapter type. Let me know how it goes. On 2 October 2013 05:12, Chris Sciarrino wrote: > Hi, >

Re: CS 4.2 - "DC already managed" issue

2013-09-26 Thread Sean Hamilton
estri wrote: > Hi Sean, > > really thank you for your support! Could you please show me the location > on which this parameter was enabled? > > On the Advanced Settings section (both Host and Cluster) I'm not able to > find the parameter. > > Thanks a lot again, >

Re: CS 4.2 - "DC already managed" issue

2013-09-26 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hey Gaspare, I had this issue too. It looks like 4.2 uses a custom field in vCenter to show it's managing that Datacenter. If you look at your vDC in vSphere, you should see "cloud.zone" which will be set to 'true'. If you want to remove the parameter just delete the text. Hope this helps. Sean

Re: who can explain cpu.overprovisioning.factor more detailed?

2013-09-18 Thread Sean Hamilton
Isn't it down to the MHz described in the service offering. Rather than core count? On 18 Sep 2013, at 20:37, Daan Hoogland wrote: > I'm guessing here; I think you can but you'll get an error deploying it. > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Steven Liang wrote: >> Thank you for replying.

Re: AWS interface in CloudStack 4.1.1 with Advanced Networking

2013-09-18 Thread Sean Hamilton
I checked the documentation. AWS interface only supports basic zone. Sorry! On 18 September 2013 09:46, Sebastien Goasguen wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Richard Chatterton < > richard.chatter...@contegix.com> wrote: > > > Howdy, CloudStack users! > > > > I'm wanting to set up the AWS

Re: 4.2 VMware memory overcommit

2013-09-10 Thread Sean Hamilton
K-4498) and it was fixed. > Can you please try with latest 4.2. > > -Harikrishna > > On 23-Aug-2013, at 9:38 PM, Sean Hamilton wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm playing around with 4.2 and VMware vSphere (version 5.0). > > We're interested in m

4.2 VMware memory overcommit

2013-08-23 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hey guys, I'm playing around with 4.2 and VMware vSphere (version 5.0). We're interested in memory overcommit, but the observed behaviour isn't what I expected. I'm seeing my instances being created in vCenter with a memory reservation that is equal to the configured memory. If I then change the

Re: How can Windows get hostname from dhcp?

2013-08-22 Thread Sean Hamilton
I don't use DHCP for this. I query the metadata for this: http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Admin_Guide/user-data-and-meta-data.html On 22 August 2013 16:27, Netsons > Roberto Iervolino < r.iervol...@netsons.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > for Windows Server 2008r2

Re: Network domain option and duplicate instance names

2013-08-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
...@shapeblue.com> > | www.shapeblue.com > > ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS > > > > On 19 Aug 2013, at 06:40, "Sean Hamilton" s...@seanhamilton.co.uk>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm hoping that you could shed

Network domain option and duplicate instance names

2013-08-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi all, I'm hoping that you could shed some light onto an issue I've been having. I have two zones in one region both zones have the same "Network Domain" setting of: zone1.local. I thought that this would be enough to stop instances with the same name being created in both zones, but it doesn't

Re: Windows License

2013-08-07 Thread Sean Hamilton
Look at using KMS (key management server) to handle licensing. On 7 Aug 2013, at 06:45, Ahmad Emneina wrote: > You can probably have a windows license server and floating licenses if > you're going to go heavy on the windows. You can also look at system center > from microsoft. > > > On Tue,

Re: Guest VM password reset - Complexity

2013-08-06 Thread Sean Hamilton
I'd like to see this configurable though. Some users don't like a password that is too complex. On 6 August 2013 13:21, Nux! wrote: > On 06.08.2013 11:29, Gaspare A Silvestri wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> is therea way to improve the password complexity when generating a >> password using

Re: Unable to upload ISO for VM installation in

2013-07-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
Sounds silly, but have you tried to download the .iso using your desktop browser? Just to make sure that it's a valid URL? On 19 July 2013 11:28, Deepak Yadav wrote: > connection refused ! > > Status : Not Ready > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Sean Hamilton

Re: Unable to upload ISO for VM installation in

2013-07-19 Thread Sean Hamilton
Are you using the UI to upload the iso? What message are you seeing for the status? On 19 July 2013 11:23, Deepak Yadav wrote: > Dear Team > > > I am using cloudstack 4.1. > after cloud basic deployment. I want to upload an iso image. > But fail to upload! > I feel that is their any limit in

Re: Cloudstack password enabled template

2013-06-28 Thread Sean Hamilton
The deployVirtualMachine API is an a-sync job. You'll need to use the ID returned to use queryAsyncJobResult to get the password. On 28 June 2013 12:32, Asmita Vagyani wrote: > The getVMPassword API doesnot return the password. > If the VM is created using the ssh keypair then we can get passwor

Re: Password Reset Utility on Windows

2013-06-13 Thread Sean Hamilton
It might be that the service was in the stopped state when the image was created. This has got me a couple of times. You might want to try that one. Sean On 13 June 2013 17:17, Geoff Higginbottom wrote: > Hi Len, > > Not seen this issue, and have rolled out many Windows Sys-prepped > Templates,

Re: creating ESX instances with the vmxnet3 adapter

2013-05-10 Thread Sean Hamilton
Hi Len, I specify the adapter type when I upload my template. In Cloudstack 3.0.5 there seems to be a bug in the UI where you have to specify a zone, then the options for adapter type are visible. Thanks, Sean On 10 May 2013 14:00, Len Bellemore wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Anyone know how to specif