Re: [RFC] CloudStack Architectural Refactor

2012-08-10 Thread Kelven Yang
CloudStack conceptually manages how virtual resource is virtualized(or call it realized) into the physical infrastructure. These management works include 1) Tenant based configuration management for compute(VMs), network (user logic networks), storage 2) Fabric(physical resource like hypervisor ho

Re: [RFC] CloudStack Architectural Refactor

2012-08-10 Thread Tomoe Sugihara
Hi, Sorry for commenting to this thread during the busiest time right before the release, But I'd like to add my thoughts especially on networking part while my memory is fresh since I started working on integration our networking technology from Midokura to CS a couple of weeks ago. I'm still new

Re: [RFC] CloudStack Architectural Refactor

2012-08-09 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 08/09/2012 07:04 AM, John Kinsella wrote: I think this is a great conversation to have, but maybe we should wait until after the 4.0 release? Seems like it might be a bit of a distraction right now… I have to agree on this. I'm not against this, but for me imho it's rather hard to keep up

Re: [RFC] CloudStack Architectural Refactor

2012-08-09 Thread sebgoa
I agree with John. Especially that there is still lots of "legacy" things to clean up even after the release. Maybe we should plan a design summit after the release ? -sebastien On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:04 AM, John Kinsella wrote: > I think this is a great conversation to have, but maybe we should

Re: [RFC] CloudStack Architectural Refactor

2012-08-08 Thread Kelven Yang
As part of the effort, a very low level service about job control will be refactored to support better CloudStack operation. Like process to an operating system, jobs are "process" in a cloud platform, we are going to improve the job management with following things in mind 1)

Re: [RFC] CloudStack Architectural Refactor

2012-08-08 Thread John Kinsella
I think this is a great conversation to have, but maybe we should wait until after the 4.0 release? Seems like it might be a bit of a distraction right now… On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:38 PM, Alex Huang wrote: > CloudStack 3.x has quite a bit of baggage after years of development. This > makes it dif

[RFC] CloudStack Architectural Refactor

2012-08-08 Thread Alex Huang
CloudStack 3.x has quite a bit of baggage after years of development. This makes it difficult for new committers to join the project. Even for existing committers, it is easy to make mistakes. We're looking to make some fundamental changes to CloudStack to overcome these problems. Please fee