Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-07-29 Thread ronald higgins
Hey Geoff, reviving an older thread here but was wondering if you've (shapeblue) have made any headway into the VM/Zone failover enhancement you mentioned in this thread? Sitting in the same boat currently having to look at a replicated SAN + DR/Continuity solution and would love to be able to fly

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-27 Thread Nux!
On 26.03.2014 21:08, Geoff Higginbottom wrote: Simon, Agree completely, that's why we are working on bringing Zone HA to CloudStack, for both Enterprise Nd Public Cloud use cases - watch this space I'll be watching. I'm really curious which strategy will be used in the end. -- Sent from the

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-26 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Simon, Agree completely, that's why we are working on bringing Zone HA to CloudStack, for both Enterprise Nd Public Cloud use cases - watch this space Regards Geoff Higginbottom CTO / Cloud Architect D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.co

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-26 Thread Simon Murphy
It is well and good to say that this feature will not be developed - but 100% of our customers are asking us for this kind of functionality. Most of our customers are traditional enterprises who who have invested vast sums of money on SAN/NAS environments, and they typically run large VMware farms.

RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-26 Thread Nux!
On 26.03.2014 14:34, Geoff Higginbottom wrote: Until we reach the utopia of all workloads being cloud-era workloads, the Zone HA feature is still very high on people's wish list. This feature can be on their list all they want, it's _extremely_ unlikely it will happen any time soon. Imagine t

RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-26 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
| S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: X. S. [mailto:nordlicht1...@hotmail.de] Sent: 26 March 2014 14:19 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) Hey!Is this really all cloud environments can

RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-26 Thread X. S.
ill stands if I consider puppet/chef. Snapshotting seems to be an inefficient solution to keep the server configuration/software current. Enlighten me, please :-) Lisa > From: len.bellem...@controlcircle.com > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) >

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre-Luc Dion
ral.com.au > Subject: RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) > > +1 > > -Original Message- > From: Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral [mailto: > kristoffer.sheat...@cloudcentral.com.au] > Sent: 25 March 2014 02:34 > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: RE: CloudStac

RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-26 Thread Len Bellemore
+1 -Original Message- From: Suresh Sadhu [mailto:suresh.sa...@citrix.com] Sent: 25 March 2014 06:14 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org; k...@cloudcentral.com.au Subject: RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) +1 -Original Message- From: Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral

RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread Suresh Sadhu
+1 -Original Message- From: Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral [mailto:kristoffer.sheat...@cloudcentral.com.au] Sent: 25 March 2014 02:34 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) +1 for this feature! We get questions from end-users about this

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread ilya musayev
http://cloudstackcollabconference2014.sched.org/event/f2162b8cb2fcaf4c0290a862ad5524ca?iframe=no&w=100&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.UzEAQdzrX7I What about using iRODS (http://www.irods.org); with a custom Micro-Service. Conceptually; what does everyone think? Is there a mechanism available for end-users

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread ilya musayev
ather | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kristofferjon From: "Geoff Higginbottom" Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 7:57 AM To: "users@cloudstack.apache.org" , "k...@cloudcentral.com.au" Subject: RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) ShapeBlue are currently working on

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread Matthew Kaufman
What about using iRODS (http://www.irods.org); with a custom Micro-Service. Conceptually; what does everyone think? Is there a mechanism available for end-users to create quiesced CloudStack snapshots of running production VMs, such that applications and filesystems are put into a consistent sta

RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral
: kristoffer.sheather | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kristofferjon From: "Geoff Higginbottom" Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 7:57 AM To: "users@cloudstack.apache.org" , "k...@cloudcentral.com.au" Subject: RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread Andrei Mikhailovsky
riginal Message - From: "Jim Jones" To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Sent: Monday, 24 March, 2014 7:11:10 PM Subject: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) Hello, I am interested to know what everyone is using to provide disaster recovery for VMs running in CloudStack? Note, I am talking

RE: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Subject: re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) Hi Jim, Very good questions and I am keen to see the answers as well. CloudStack definitely needs to support this scenario (I don't believe it currently does). Cross zone replication of snapshots with the ability to bring up VM's from those

re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral
m/kristofferjon From: "Jim Jones" Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 6:11 AM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA) Hello, I am interested to know what everyone is using to provide disaster recovery for VMs running in CloudStack? Note, I am talking abou

Re: CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread Nux!
On 24.03.2014 19:11, Jim Jones wrote: Hello, I am interested to know what everyone is using to provide disaster recovery for VMs running in CloudStack? Hello Jim, I'm also interested in this subject. Right now for some DR VMs I (am trying to) use Xenserver + HAlizard, but this is just a 2

CloudStack DR Approach (not HA)

2014-03-24 Thread Jim Jones
Hello, I am interested to know what everyone is using to provide disaster recovery for VMs running in CloudStack? Note, I am talking about true DR to another data center, not HA. I have seen the previous thread where someone asked about DR, but the answer provided only talked about HA of VMs wit