Do you know of any plans/possibilities to completely get rid of the VR and move functionality - especially routing traffic - in host agents?
On another note, something more pluggable would be nice. One thing I'd really love to see is OpenVPN support (because anything else is just a world of pain). Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rohit Yadav" <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> > To: "dev" <d...@cloudstack.apache.org>, users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Friday, 20 February, 2015 07:53:38 > Subject: [DISCUSS] Improving VR services such as password server > Hi, > > I'm trying to explore how to make systemvms more robust and > fault-tolerant, and the manual/automated QA of systemvms. One of the > common user facing issues related to scalability was the reset > password/key servers where the VR serves data using socat etc using > forking mechanisms and global locks. This slows down the processes such > as reset password. > > More here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8272 > > One of the blindly thrown solutions includes increasing the VR RAM which > works for at scale but then seems to fail again when the load is > increased beyond a point. I don't know of any performance and stress > testing reports that tell us about these bottlenecks. Please share if > you have done anything in this regard. > > I want to do couple of things: > > - Explore systemvm build changes using newer tools such as packer > - Cleanup script execution and code in resource layer > - Start replacing bash scripts with more robust implementations, perhaps > a single or few agents on VRs that provide non-hardcoded well-documented > interfaces > - Right now everything in VR/systemvms is sort of hardcoded and the > services/interfaces are not well-documented. The idea is to refactor and > wrap everything we want to do with the systemvms in a general agents > framework that provides monitoring and managing the VRs (do stuff like > upgrades etc to combat things like ghost, poodle issues): > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Agents+Framework > > What are the other issues you've had in past that you would like to be > improved? > > -- > Regards, > Rohit Yadav > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > M. +91 8826230892 | rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > Blog: bhaisaab.org | Twitter: @_bhaisaab > PS. If you see any footer below, I did not add it :) > Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related services > > IaaS Cloud Design & Build<http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> > CSForge – rapid IaaS deployment framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> > CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> > CloudStack Software > Engineering<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-software-engineering/> > CloudStack Infrastructure > Support<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> > CloudStack Bootcamp Training > Courses<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended > solely > for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions > expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent > those > of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the intended recipient > of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor > copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have > received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in > England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is a company incorporated in > India and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. Shape Blue Brasil > Consultoria Ltda is a company incorporated in Brasil and is operated under > license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue SA Pty Ltd is a company registered by > The Republic of South Africa and is traded under license from Shape Blue Ltd. > ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.
