NetApp plugin wins Best of Synergy 2014 award in cloud track

I wanted to give a shout-out to Chris Suich, who was a key player in the team that worked on the NetApp plugin--aka Virtual Storage Console for Apache CloudStack. Many of you know Chris personally from the CloudStack Collab. Conferences and also from his participation on this dev list. The plugin

Slideshare link to my presentation

Hey everybody, for those of you who are interested, here is the link to my presentation from CCCNA14: http://www.slideshare.net/dlamotta/bringing-netapp-data-ontap-apache-cloudstack-together David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer | Integrated Infrastructures NetApp Office: 1.919.476.5042

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

: 1.919.476.5042 Mobile: 1.919.413.5600 On 4/16/14, 12:43 PM, "Marcus" wrote: >Yes, it wouldn't start without a disk :-) > >On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:39 AM, La Motta, David > wrote: >> Thanks, Marcus. The virtual router can’t start, either. >&

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

192.168.0.131/kvmPrimary", >"_role": "Primary", > "uuid": "9e3145ae-6074-4aa8-bbbf-05f2d8f284be" >} >}, > >I'm not sure what the difference is, if w

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

014-04-16 09:30:56,993 DEBUG [kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource] (agentRequest-Handler-1:null) Executing: /usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/vm/network/security_group.py destroy_network_rules_for_vm --vmname r-4-VM 2014-04-16 09:30:57,200 DEBUG [kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource] (agen

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

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Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

kvm agent log file？ > > > >Thanks, > >Yitao > > >2014-04-16 22:59 GMT+08:00 La Motta, David : > >> Hey everybody, I am trying to deploy a VM instance in KVM using NFS for >> primary storage (on 4.3). Unfortunately, this is the exception I am >> getting

Re: Instance on KVM + NFS fails

7099-4dca-a589-1c75e2199ba9","id": >202,"format":"QCOW2","accountId":2,"checksum":"44cd0e6330a59f031460bc18a40 >c95a2","hvm":true,"displayText":"tiny","imageDataStore":{"org.apache

Instance on KVM + NFS fails

Hey everybody, I am trying to deploy a VM instance in KVM using NFS for primary storage (on 4.3). Unfortunately, this is the exception I am getting: 2014-04-16 06:44:53,128 DEBUG [o.a.c.e.o.VolumeOrchestrator] (Work-Job-Executor-6:job-30/job-31 ctx-b83982e8) Unable to create Vol[4|vm=4|ROOT]:java

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New PMC member: Animesh Chaturvedi

Awesome! Congrats, Animesh. David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp Direct: 1.919.476.5042 On 10/21/13 3:01 PM, "Chip Childers" wrote: >The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache CloudStack has asked >Animesh Chaturvedi to join the PMC and we are please

Re: AWS API in CloudStack

s to be fully compliant so that ec2 tools can be used >transparently against a cloudstack cloud running the aws mapping >(separate package to install on mgt server). > >Its probably not fully compliant so be warned. > >-Sebastien > >On 14 Oct 2013, at 20:25, "La Motta,

Re: AWS API in CloudStack

http://www.servicemesh.com/cloud-it-resources/cloud-strategy-transform-it-b log/blog/apache-cloudstack-aws-for-every-man/ Forgot the link! Sorry. On 10/14/13 2:14 PM, "La Motta, David" wrote: >Hello, folks. In reading this article (), I found this: > >"Interestingly

AWS API in CloudStack

Hello, folks. In reading this article (), I found this: "Interestingly, Apache CloudStack will follow a dual-API strategy. First, the project will maintain compatibility with the familiar AWS API, which allows users to leverage tool sets built to work with AWS. Love it or hate it, the AWS API is

Re: Lines of contributed code

WARRANTY, and you are welcome to >redistribute it under certain conditions as specified by the GNU GPL >license; >see the documentation for details. >Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's >'SLOCCount'." > > > >> -Origin

Re: Lines of contributed code

Awesome, thanks! David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp Direct: 1.919.476.5042 Mobile: 1.919.413.5600 On 9/26/13 12:44 PM, "Chip Childers" wrote: >This is a good tool: > >http://www.ohloh.net/p/CloudStack > > >On Thu, Sep 26

Lines of contributed code

Hey everybody, as an advocate of CloudStack for NetApp and our customers, I am often times asked to compare and contrast ACS with OpenStack. One interesting metric that I am looking at right now is that OpenStack has about 1.7 million lines of contributed code. How many can we say about CloudS

Hotels for CCC Amsterdam

Hey everybody, I think I saw something about hotels not being decided for CCC in Amsterdam this November. Has that been squared out? I know this is not a dev question per seŠ but hey, what better group to ask that question but this one? :-) Thanks! -- David La Motta Technical Marketing Enginee

Re: CloudStack "distros"

che.org >Subject: Re: CloudStack "distros" > >Not that I am aware of. Also I believe once ACS 4.2 is released, ACS and >CCP will be the same code base. I could be wrong. > > >On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:24 PM, La Motta, David >wrote: > >> Hi all, was curious t

CloudStack "distros"

Hi all, was curious to know if there are other flavors of CloudStack besides CloudPlatform. Anybody have some insight in that space? Thanks. David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp Direct: 1.919.476.5042

Re: 4.3 compatibility matrix

Ok, thanks. -- David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp david.lamo...@netapp.com On 8/15/13 2:29 PM, "Chiradeep Vittal" wrote: >Probably closer to feature freeze (9/30) > >On 8/14/13 8:02 AM, "La Motta, David" wrote: > >

404 on some .css files

Not sure if anybody has seen this, but I just noticed today after my nonoss build ;-) Could've been there before, though. GET http://nimbus:8080/client/api?command=listCapabilities&response=json&sessio nkey=DGLyurBUgoy5E6VuOTdDdxIIV5o%3D&_=1376494740700 401 (Unauthorized) jquery.js:7829

4.3 compatibility matrix

Can anybody provide any insight as to when 4.3 is going to be added to the compatibility matrix? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/4.2+Compatiblity+Mat rix Thanks. -- David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer - Citrix Solutions | NetApp david.lamo...@netapp.com

Re: Could not find corresponding resource manager for VMware

;Did you build with -Dnonoss? > >--Alex > >> -----Original Message- >> From: La Motta, David [mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 1:31 PM >> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: Could not find corresponding resource manager fo

Could not find corresponding resource manager for VMware

Hey everybody, I am trying to add a VMware cluster to CS 4.2 (I am using commit 7eb3d49e8e0a9b247ea974cad744803420982eda, which is several weeks old) and I am getting the error in the subject: INFO [cloud.api.ApiServer] (413440874@qtp-1461551141-41:) Could not find corresponding resource manager

Re: Specifying Storage Provider for Primary Storage Creation/Registration

r operation (read, write, clone, copy, delink, destroy, etc) allowing each physical storage operations to leverage the additional configuration information. What deeper layers are you envisioning will need the property bag? Thanks, -John On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:29 AM, "La Motta, Dav

Re: Specifying Storage Provider for Primary Storage Creation/Registration

do you think the requirements of such a facility would be? Thanks, -John On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:40 AM, "La Motta, David" mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com>> wrote: Mike, Edison, et al., this brings up the question of what UI will be displayed when the user selects a storage vendor&#

Re: Specifying Storage Provider for Primary Storage Creation/Registration

Mike, Edison, et al., this brings up the question of what UI will be displayed when the user selects a storage vendor's plugin implementation. In other words, IMO the ideal scenario is to have the ability to allow the storage plugin's implementer to display a custom UI. That way, the tradition

Re: Expanding a volume on a SAN

Mike, make sure you do the rescan on the master host as well on all the slaves in the pool, especially if you are doing a "live" resize (i.e., not detaching the iSCSI SR from XenServer). Just issuing the rescan on the master will not propagate the info down to the slaves. We hit that problem w

Hack day tomorrow

Hey everybody, we're looking forward hanging out with some of you tomorrow in Santa Clara. I am stuck in an un-ending layover in Dallas on my way to CCC13, so I thought I'd share some of our thoughts for the hackathon tomorrow: - registerVirtualMachine REST API: this can be used to "flip the s

Re: enableStorageMaintenance

t 01:32:40PM +0000, La Motta, David wrote: Thanks, Edison. "With the job ID, you can periodically check the job status by making calls to queryAsyncJobResult command." My question remains, then: can the API introduce callbacks so we don't have to polling, especially on long running

Re: enableStorageMaintenance

nical Marketing Engineer Citrix Solutions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.com<mailto:dlamo...@netapp.com> On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Edison Su mailto:edison...@citrix.com>> wrote: -Original Message- From: La Motta, David [mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com<http://neta

Re: enableStorageMaintenance

son Su mailto:edison...@citrix.com>> wrote: -Original Message----- From: La Motta, David [mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com<http://netapp.com>] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:37 AM To: mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: Re: enableStorageMaintenance Along the same

Re: enableStorageMaintenance

Along the same lines… is there a REST command coming in 4.2 to quiesce one or multiple virtual machines? David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer Citrix Solutions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.com<mailto:dlamo...@netapp.com> On Jun 14, 2013, at 10:53 AM, "La M

enableStorageMaintenance

…works great for putting down the storage into maintenance mode (looking forward seeing this for secondary storage as well!). Now the question is, after I've run it… how do I know when it is done so I can operate on the volume? Poll using updateStoragePool and query the state for "Maintenance"?

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

well - Original Message - From: "Chip Childers" mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com><mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:56:51 AM

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

n CloudStack development as well - Original Message - From: "Chip Childers" mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:56:51 AM Subject: Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not... On Thu, Jun 13,

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

in system we realized that we can do *almost* anything we want in cloudstack, but it requires some developer time. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:49 AM, La Motta, David mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com>> wrote: Looking at this in more detail, that's not going to do it. If we hav

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

self, IMO. Thx! David La Motta Technical Marketing Engineer Citrix Solutions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.com<mailto:dlamo...@netapp.com> On Jun 12, 2013, at 10:57 AM, "La Motta, David" mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com>> wrote: Nope! That's the one I was lookin

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

M, Chip Childers mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com>> wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:49:42PM +, La Motta, David wrote: Ok, thanks. So it is doable. The question now being how fast this process will be, since the VM creation will ultimately be done on the hypervisor. What is the A

Re: Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

ote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:35:18PM +0000, La Motta, David wrote: Hey everybody, I've got a couple of questions on cloning VM instances in CloudStack. I haven't seen anything in the UI that would allow me to create, say, 1000 clones of a VM instance in a given cluster. Is there

Cloning VMs in CloudStack, or not...

Hey everybody, I've got a couple of questions on cloning VM instances in CloudStack. I haven't seen anything in the UI that would allow me to create, say, 1000 clones of a VM instance in a given cluster. Is there such functionality in CloudStack? If there isn't, can I drop to the hypervisor a

Re: migrateVirtualMachine

late > provision' process. Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message - From: "La Motta, David" mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com>> To: "mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>>" mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: migrateVirtualMachine Date: Fri, Jun 7,

migrateVirtualMachine

Anybody know a bit more in depth what that API call really does? From the API docs it "Attempts Migration of a VM to a different host or Root volume of the vm to a different storage pool". Does this mean if the VM is on XenServer and I want to move it to vShpere, it does VHD to OVA (VMDK?) con

Re: 4.2 snapshot: Instance creation fails

eer Citrix Solutions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.com<mailto:dlamo...@netapp.com> On May 31, 2013, at 1:49 PM, "La Motta, David" mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com>> wrote: I'm starting a new thread, since the secondary storage woes seem to be resolved, the

4.2 snapshot: Instance creation fails

I'm starting a new thread, since the secondary storage woes seem to be resolved, the culprit being secstorage.allowed.internal.sites and lack of MS / XS / SSVM reboots. The ISOs have been downloaded, which means the SSVM is alive and kicking. …however, when I attempt to create an instance, it

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

ilto:t...@apache.org>> wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:34:00PM +0000, La Motta, David wrote: Nothing in cloud.out--I have some old messages which don't make me feel that great about things, but a tail -f on the file keeps it static when I attempt to add the ISO. The old messages a

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

xception to the ssvm's firewall, to allow for that traffic. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:34 PM, La Motta, David mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com>> wrote: Nothing in cloud.out--I have some old messages which don't make me feel that great about things, but a tail -f on the file keeps it

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

host those images. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:25 PM, La Motta, David mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com>>wrote: Ok, so I took a gander at some of the suggestions on that page, and though I feel I am close… I am not there yet. Just so you all have a bit of context how my environment is setup

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

mo...@netapp.com> On May 30, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Nitin Mehta mailto:nitin.me...@citrix.com>> wrote: David - Can you please follow https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/ssvm-troubleshooting.html to troubleshoot the issues ? Let us know how it goes ? On 30/05/13 7:02 PM, "La Motta

Re: vhd-util missing in 4.2 snapshot?

tions NetApp 919.476.5042 dlamo...@netapp.com<mailto:dlamo...@netapp.com> On May 30, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Chip Childers mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com>> wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:33:22PM +, La Motta, David wrote: Cool, thanks. I saw a reference to a NetApp plugin on that

Re: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

n connect back to mgt serer. -Original Message- From: La Motta, David [mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com<http://netapp.com>] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:28 PM To: mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: 4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go So my 4.2 instance is up and running, sy

4.2 snapshot: setting up ISOs - no go

So my 4.2 instance is up and running, system VMs are running (secondary storage VM and console proxy VM), primary and secondary storage are up on NFS… all things considered and at a glance, things look good. However, when I try to add an ISO so that I can provision a VM, I am getting: WARN [s

Re: vhd-util missing in 4.2 snapshot?

, Chip Childers mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com>> wrote: Search for vhd-util on this page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/How+to+build+on+master+branch It explains what to do (hopefully). On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 08:49:51PM +0000, La Motta, David wrote: Here is the

Re: vhd-util missing in 4.2 snapshot?

...@netapp.com<mailto:dlamo...@netapp.com> On May 28, 2013, at 4:20 PM, "La Motta, David" mailto:david.lamo...@netapp.com>> wrote: Hey everybody, I downloaded a 4.2 snapshot today and have been trying to get it going without much luck. I got an error about systemvm.iso not being

vhd-util missing in 4.2 snapshot?

Hey everybody, I downloaded a 4.2 snapshot today and have been trying to get it going without much luck. I got an error about systemvm.iso not being found, so I manually copied it to the problem spot from a 4.1 tree I have laying around. However, vhd-util is not found, and I am getting a scope