welcome Matt, I'll take a while to read ;) When you call one machine the `gateway`, do you mean it is not acting as a host but as a gateway to the outside world, and only the machine with the management server is a host in the system? Firewalls can be a pain, however the ports to open are really limited and it sounds like you are not talking about this as an architecture for a production system, so it is alright to completely disable them. During enabling the zone, do you see any issues in the management server or agent logs?
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 5:27 PM Matthew Samani <saman...@montclair.edu> wrote: > Good Morning All, > > My name is Matt and I have just joined this mailing list. I apologize in > advance if this email becomes lengthy. > > I am new to working with Cloudstack and I have been trying to test out the > software a bit. I am trying to use the Quick Start guide provided by > Cloudstack to get used to the general installation process and its use. > While there was a bit of a learning curve, I have reached all the way to > the end of the guide. To provide some information on my design, I am using > two CentOS VMs with one acting as the gateway and the other having the > entire installation. I made sure to set Promiscuous Mode to Allow VMs for > both the gateway and client, provided enough computational resources, > Enabled Nested VT-x/AMD-V, stopped and disabled NetworkManager on both the > gateway and client, and followed every single step verbatim (using > copy/paste as much as possible and making adjustments where needed). > > The only issue is that when I hit "Launch Zone" as one of the final steps, > it gets stuck on Adding Host. I do usually get a notification saying that > it cannot connect to the management server. This doesn't make as much sense > since it should be the same machine. I have included a screenshot of where > I got stuck, the link to the Quick Start guide, and the link to the book I > used for my gateway (go to page 118). Can anyone give me any pointers? I > have done the whole process twice and received the same results. I am not > sure if it would be the cause, however I want to note that I stopped and > disabled the firewall on the client, but the gateway's firewall is still up > and running. While I can see the firewall on the client possibly causing > issues, I am not sure about the gateway. > > [image: image (1).png] > > > Quick Start Guide: > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/quickinstallationguide/qig.html > > Gateway: https://oiipdf.com/mastering-centos-7-linux-server > -- > Regards, > > Matthew Joseph Samani > Email: saman...@montclair.edu > Cell: 201-359-6077 > > -- Daan
