So, hopefully you don't mind me giving you a bit of unsolicited advice. I'd start with setting up a working devcloud, make sure you can add/remove VMs, etc. Then I would add a primary storage of type iscsi, point it at your solidfire server, and set a storage tag of 'solidfire'. You should see on the xen host (devcloud) that it creates a new SR and attaches to your iscsi storage. Then I would create a service offering that uses this storage (set a storage tag on it of 'solid fire'), and select this service offering when deploying a VM.
This should be all that's necessary for basic functionality. It will show you how things are put together, what runs where, how to see storage on the Xen, etc. From there you can start developing, maybe look at edison's storage refactor branch, since I'm guessing you're trying to enable the more advanced solidfire features like snapshots, etc; things that aren't already available via the standard iscsi primary storage. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Also, it makes sense to me now that DevCloud is not necessarily running the > management server...that can be run on my host OS and I could still use > DevCloud for hosts (and NFS). > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Mike Tutkowski < > mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > > > OK, guys...thanks for the info! > > > > In my case, I will need to make use of SolidFire's storage, so using > > DevCloud for storage is probably not going to be applicable for me. > > > > I could use DevCloud to run VMs...I see now. I also have another VM I've > > been using that has XenServer installed where I could run my VMs. This > is > > making more sense to me now. I just wasn't really confident I understood > > what DevCloud provided. > > > > Thanks again > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> Devcloud is where your VMS run. So in cloudstack when you add hosts, it > is > >> your host. In production you generally would have 3 or so management > >> servers controlling tens or hundreds of hosts that run VMS. So the mac > is > >> your management server and devcloud is what it controls. > >> On Jan 22, 2013 6:34 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > > > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Sorry about what might be silly questions :) but if I develop my code > on > >> > Mac OS X, I'm not really sure what DevCloud would do for me? Could you > >> > explain that part to me? > >> > > >> > Thanks! > >> > > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Mike Tutkowski < > >> > mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > Ah, didn't realize that DevCloud2 was Debian based. > >> > > > >> > > I'm developing on Max OS X. So, it sounds like for a developer in > >> that > >> > > situation, it is best for me to download the source code to my Mac, > >> code, > >> > > build, run, test, etc. on Mac OS X? > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Fang Wang <fang.w...@citrix.com> > >> wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> IT depends on what OS X you have. IF you have Ubuntu, then either > >> > >> DevCloud or your environment is the same. > >> > >> You may directly use your Ubuntu. > >> > >> > >> > >> But if OS X is windows, for some hypervisor, you can't directly > >> deploy > >> > MS > >> > >> on Windows. > >> > >> Then DevCloud provides a way to bypass this Windows limitation. > >> > >> > >> > >> -Fang > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> > >> From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] > >> > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:43 PM > >> > >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> Subject: DevCloud Question > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> > >> > >> I'm curious to learn a bit about DevCloud. I don't currently > >> understand > >> > >> how it relates from a development-workflow perspective. > >> > >> > >> > >> My host OS is OS X. I have VirtualBox, Eclipse, Git, Maven, etc. > >> > >> installed in OS X. I am running the DevCloud appliance via > >> VirtualBox. > >> > I > >> > >> can bring up the CloudStack GUI and log in this way and that's easy > >> and > >> > >> great to be able to do. What I don't really understand is how our > >> > >> development workflow should be using DevCloud. > >> > >> > >> > >> Do I develop code in Eclipse on OS X and port the artifacts over to > >> > >> DevCloud to update it? Am I supposed to develop directly on Ubuntu > >> in > >> > >> DevCloud (and, as such, should not use Eclipse). Should I just > >> ignore > >> > >> DevCloud completely and develop everything on OS X? > >> > >> > >> > >> I'm a little lost here. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks!! > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> *Mike Tutkowski* > >> > >> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >> > >> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >> > >> o: 303.746.7302 > >> > >> Advancing the way the world uses the > >> > >> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >> > >> *(tm)* > >> > >> > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > *Mike Tutkowski* > >> > > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >> > > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >> > > o: 303.746.7302 > >> > > Advancing the way the world uses the cloud< > >> > http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >> > > *™* > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > *Mike Tutkowski* > >> > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > >> > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > >> > o: 303.746.7302 > >> > Advancing the way the world uses the > >> > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > >> > *™* > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > *Mike Tutkowski* > > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > > o: 303.746.7302 > > Advancing the way the world uses the cloud< > http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > > *™* > > > > > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > o: 303.746.7302 > Advancing the way the world uses the > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > *™* >
