RE: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup.

2013-08-19 Thread David Ortiz
: Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup. From: kirk.jant...@gmail.com To: users@cloudstack.apache.org The hosts would be in a cluster, but their storage is local to the host. I'm not aware of anything in cloudstack yet (storage migration is slated for future versions) that would make

Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup.

2013-08-19 Thread Travis Graham
have 10 x 512 GB disks, you will need to make all of the disks you would like to use for CS primary storage one logical disk. Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:15:44 -0400 Subject: Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup. From: kirk.jant...@gmail.com To: users@cloudstack.apache.org The hosts

Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup.

2013-08-19 Thread Kirk Jantzer
, is that CS will only recognize one local storage pool. So where you have 10 x 512 GB disks, you will need to make all of the disks you would like to use for CS primary storage one logical disk. Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:15:44 -0400 Subject: Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup

Storage options for new Cloudstack setup.

2013-08-16 Thread Tyler Wilson
Greetings All, We are looking into setting up Cloudstack for one of our new racks and I am trying to get a picture of our options for storage; 1. Can we use primary storage with the specs below? It seems primary storage is meant for single, dedicated storage boxes (SAN, NFS) that don't house

Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup.

2013-08-16 Thread Tyler Wilson
Hello Kirk, Thanks for the reply, will any features be disabled/unavailable with this method? Regards, On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Kirk Jantzer kirk.jant...@gmail.comwrote: With the specs provided, you'll want to create a zone with local storage enabled (as well as change the global

Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup.

2013-08-16 Thread Kirk Jantzer
I'd wait for the experts to reply, but off the top of my head in the current versions (4.x), you'd lose the ability to live migrate instances and offer HA service offerings. Regards, Kirk Jantzer http://about.me/kirkjantzer On Aug 16, 2013 5:49 PM, Tyler Wilson k...@linuxdigital.net wrote:

Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup.

2013-08-16 Thread Tyler Wilson
Hello Kirk, While I do agree with the Live migration issue I do think If you have multiple hosts couldnt you replicate the data and establish HA via load balancing. Am I correct in thinking this? Would these specs be considered one 'pod' or a single 'cluster'? Thanks again for you help. On

Re: Storage options for new Cloudstack setup.

2013-08-16 Thread Kirk Jantzer
The hosts would be in a cluster, but their storage is local to the host. I'm not aware of anything in cloudstack yet (storage migration is slated for future versions) that would make it aware of replication done on the host level. People are experimenting with Ceph for primary storage, but I don't