Re: [Crowbar] Installing crowbar mesa 1.6 on HP C7000 G8 blade.

2014-04-04 Thread Shane Gibson
Also insure you have IPMI functions enabled on the BMC in the BIOS settings. It's been a while since I did it w/ HP hardware - but I know in Dell's BMC implementation (iDRAC), the IPMI protocol has to be enabled on the BMC for it to support IPMI compliant commands. ~~shane On 4/3/14, 9:46 P

Re: [Crowbar] Trove barclamp for Crowbar

2014-03-28 Thread Shane Gibson
+1 On 3/28/14, 2:22 AM, "Dirk Müller" wrote: >Hi, > >SUSE, namely Ionut Artarisi, developed a barclamp for deploying Trove >in the recent weeks. We'd like to contribute it to the /crowbar >organisation. Any objection in doing so? > >It has been tested with roxy and can be ported to stoney. > >

Re: [Crowbar] L3 topology deployment with Crowbar?

2014-01-13 Thread Shane Gibson
a network with multiple IP ranges assigned. Can you give >a concrete example w/ IP subnet and function that you’d split? > >I’m not sure how you’d pick which range was tied to a L2 boundary for >assignment. > >Would IPv6 help solve this? > >Rob >From: crowbar-bounces On B

[Crowbar] L3 topology deployment with Crowbar?

2014-01-07 Thread Shane Gibson
All, I have a question regarding Crowbar deployment. Currently - I have deployed Crowbar 1.x in a flat L2 physical topology. Meaning - all of the OpenStack cluster members are in a single L2 domain. We are working on a physical datacenter topology where every single rack is an L2 boundary.

Re: [Crowbar] record of IP's assigned to bmc_vlan

2013-12-19 Thread Shane Gibson
You can change it by changing the bc-template-ipmi.json file before running the “install” command to build the admin node. I custom master an Admin ISO image, in the /tftpboot/ubuntu_dvd/extras directory, I stage customized JSON config files for various clusters … Before I run my “cd /tftpboot/u

Re: [Crowbar] crowbar-utils repo moved to http://github.com/opencrowbar/crowbar-utils/

2013-12-17 Thread Shane Gibson
All, It seems that there is a significant amount of confusion or maybe more acurately; disagreement on how to maintain the Crowbar 1.x vs. the Crowbar 2.x products going forward. I realize that there are complexities and issues with either course. Is someone within the Crowbar community going t

Re: [Crowbar] new to crowbar and have questions

2013-12-12 Thread Shane Gibson
least get you into the right direction. > >Hope this helps, >Simon > >-----Original Message- >From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Shane Gibson >Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 2:47 PM >To: Butcho Nettels; crowbar >Subject: Re: [Crowbar] new to crowbar and have questi

Re: [Crowbar] new to crowbar and have questions

2013-12-11 Thread Shane Gibson
Butcho, Welcome. I’m assuming you’re referring to Crowbar 1.x ? I don’t think you can change the d-MAC naming scheme that’s in Crowbar 1.x. To modify your cluster network specifications, In Crowbar 1.x you need to modify your bc-template-network.json config file PRIOR to running the “install”

Re: [Crowbar] how to shutdown bluepill/chef ?

2013-11-24 Thread Shane Gibson
..@dell.com<mailto:crowbar-boun...@dell.com> [mailto:crowbar-boun...@dell.com<mailto:crowbar-boun...@dell.com>] On Behalf Of Shane Gibson Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 2:40 PM To: crowbar@dell.com<mailto:crowbar@dell.com> Subject: [Crowbar] how to shutdown bluepill/chef ? Do

Re: [Crowbar] crowbar switching nodes to UEFI boot mode ?

2013-11-22 Thread Shane Gibson
ook. Thanks! Raajeev From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Shane Gibson Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 6:35 PM To: crowbar Subject: [Crowbar] crowbar switching nodes to UEFI boot mode ? It would appear that in 1.6.1, after I enlist/enroll (sledgehammer) a node, the subsequent reboot it switch

[Crowbar] how to shutdown bluepill/chef ?

2013-11-22 Thread Shane Gibson
Does anyone out there have a “correct” procedure on how to completely disable chef-server/chef-client on a Crowbar built cluster? We want to “freeze” the config on a cluster, and make significant changes (installing plugins, etc…) without Chef interfering with the changes. I realize that onc

[Crowbar] Nova Comp. Perf. issue (also "how to modify recipes in crowbar")

2013-11-22 Thread Shane Gibson
All, We have a few clusters up and running now, being built by Crowbar 1.6.1 (mesa branch, build 3860, w/ Dell specific BIOS/RAID barclamps). The clusters have all been performing extremely poorly from a nova-compute standpoint. We resolved the issue, and would like to share how we resolved tha

Re: [Crowbar] Roxy Ubuntu Dev Install Challenges

2013-11-20 Thread Shane Gibson
Chux, See below - I¹m only referencing that which I can actually help you with. Someone else will have to chime in on the other stuffŠ On 11/20/13, 2:27 PM, "Chux Uzoeto" wrote: > assumptions made by the admin server in terms of network, ubuntu folks >also hardcoded a network of 192.168.1.0 (i

Re: [Crowbar] more complex "start" and "end" syntax ??

2013-11-18 Thread Shane Gibson
rted. Thanks, Chris Dell From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Shane Gibson Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:22 PM To: crowbar Subject: [Crowbar] more complex "start" and "end" syntax ?? All, I am setting up a cluster, and have a configuration which I’m not sure if the bc-te

[Crowbar] crowbar switching nodes to UEFI boot mode ?

2013-11-16 Thread Shane Gibson
It would appear that in 1.6.1, after I enlist/enroll (sledgehammer) a node, the subsequent reboot it switched from BIOS boot mode to UEFI boot mode. This is driving me nutz … since UEFI boot mode isn’t PXE booting correctly. The nodes all get hung up with “F1 to retry reboot …”. I have to re

[Crowbar] more complex "start" and "end" syntax ??

2013-11-16 Thread Shane Gibson
All, I am setting up a cluster, and have a configuration which I’m not sure if the bc-template-network.json can support. I’d like to specify… essentially… a more complex range of IPs to allocate like follows: 1.2.3.10, 1.2.3.100-115 I know this syntax: "ranges": {

[Crowbar] CB 1.61 - DHCP server not installed

2013-11-11 Thread Shane Gibson
I¹m installing the Crowbar 1.6.1 Roxy build (build 4709). Steps to install: * attach ISO to iDRAC virtual DVD interface, set boot to Virtual DVD, reboot * log in to console, change eth0 to a reachable address on my network * copy over bc-template-network.json and bc-template-ipmi.json * inst

[Crowbar] documentation - broken links

2013-11-07 Thread Shane Gibson
Just downloaded the 1.6.1 version (build 4709). I wanted to check out the docs, and went to: https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki/User-documentation The link on this page named: * Dell Crowbar Deployment Guide (Site Prep, Network & Hardware Install, Crowbar Install, OpenStack Install) Un

Re: [Crowbar] report from community day

2013-11-04 Thread Shane Gibson
The teams demoing at the community day event did a fantastic job. It was great to see the CB2 workload deployments, the overall framework advancements, SuSE demonstrating some of their tools, etc. Looking forward to the rest of the CB2 features firming up… ~~shane Sr. Principal Infrastruct

Re: [Crowbar] Cloudera hadoop deployment hardware inquiry

2013-10-23 Thread Shane Gibson
Drew, Adding to this discussion Š I believe you¹ll have to go with an add-on option of some sort. Your best bet if you want to use Crowbar (good idea!) is to use a supported card, as Mike discusses below. If you choose not to go with a supported add-on board, you might look at the Ceph perform

Re: [Crowbar] New Server for Crowbar Lists

2013-10-11 Thread Shane Gibson
> -Original Message- > Subject: Re: [Crowbar] New Server for Crowbar Lists > > > > In my experience, users often prefer a forum style interface over a > > > mailing list. If we investigate alternatives, I think we should > > > consider a forum as an option. > > > > > > Anyone else think fo

Re: [Crowbar] Node dashboard buttons in Roxy

2013-10-09 Thread Shane Gibson
"Reset" is a terrible term IMO - it implies "reboot" or "restart" in my experience - on my first introduction to Crowbar, this caused confusion about what "reset" was going to do - I assumed "restart", and instead, I got something ... different. "Delete" is probably better since the Node's rol

Re: [Crowbar] Bootstrap Node

2013-10-07 Thread Shane Gibson
Jacob, Do you have the server set to PXE boot as the first option, and ETH0 as the boot interface for PXE? What hardware are you using that you are trying to boot? I've had troubles in the past with Dell BIOS settings, if you switch to PXE boot as first order, it switches the network interfac

Re: [Crowbar] Roles, nodes, noderoles, lifeycles, and events, oh my!

2013-09-27 Thread Shane Gibson
Victor, Thanks for the great write up. One question ... there is a brief mention of "an API request" - Are any of the APIs for the entire process exposed? For example, would someone operating CB2 be able to manage it via API calls externally? Our teams are very interested in the prospect of

Re: [Crowbar] move community call Th to one hour later

2013-09-17 Thread Shane Gibson
> -Original Message- > We don't have Visio at SUSE so we can't read that. A .png or .pdf would be > more useful. Adam, It's actually a PDF document - even though the title says "Visio" in it. Unzip the attachment, and you'll see it's a PDF. ~~shane ___

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar 2.0 Status Report

2013-09-07 Thread Shane Gibson
Victor – thanks for the great update. After having spent some time discussing the Crowbar 2.0 vision and direction with Rob – we were keen to see bits and pieces of the implementation come together. Nice to see this happening quickly! We will be give this iteration a run through on our enviro

Re: [Crowbar] crowbar 1.6 mesa iso in virtualbox

2013-08-27 Thread Shane Gibson
We do the admin node install on our Dell servers via the iDRAC interfaces. We installed the Dell OpenManage Linux tools, on our Ubuntu server, via an /etc/apt/sources.list entry of: # Dell racadm/etc. utilities deb http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/latest / Then scripted the use o

Re: [Crowbar] modifying the raid and/or bios barclamps

2013-08-26 Thread Shane Gibson
I echo this request. We currently have 20 R720xd, similar arrangement (2 x 300 GB SAS 15k and 24x 2 TB). We'd like the barclamp to handle setting up the 2x300GB SAS as a mirror for the OS, and remaining 24 drives in RAID 0 volumes for SWIFT to consume. ~~shane > -Original Message-

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar and Openstack HA

2013-08-07 Thread Shane Gibson
Stephen and Keith (et al), This is great information - and of keen interest to us. One note I might make, on the overview page, under Stage 1 to 7 (focus areas), I'd recommend calling out RabbitMQ. It's a significant piece of the puzzle, and initially I wondered if it had been "forgotten" in

[Crowbar] Changing log_facility levels ?

2013-08-02 Thread Shane Gibson
Okay – new to the crowbar list, so please be delicate if I'm off topic, etc… ☺ I poked around for a while (google and crowbar documentation) trying to determine “the correct way” to change the Log Facility for our Crowbar deployed swift instance. I find the various template files with the