That's great advice, Marcus. Certainly feel free to throw out "unsolicited" advice. I'm just diving into CloudStack and am a bit overwhelmed at the moment, so any ideas on how to get a feel for it are awesome to have.
Thanks! On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > No...it is network accessible...I was just thinking I would not use NFS. > If I use SolidFire's storage, run the management server on my host OS, > then I guess all that leaves for DevCloud to do is provide a hypervisor to > run VMs...is that true? If that's the case, I could just run my own > hypervisor in a different VirtualBox VM. That's all I was thinking. Do > you think that's not a good way to go? Just curious. > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Why not? Is solid fire storage not network accessible? >> On Jan 22, 2013 8:11 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> > *™* > -- *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> *™*
