RE: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-27 Thread Alex Huang
hypervisor HA because of this. > > --Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: Koushik Das [mailto:koushik@citrix.com<http://citrix.com>] > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:51 PM > To: mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM

Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-27 Thread Koushik Das
egarding this. I generally don't think VM HA can be done with hypervisor HA because of this. --Alex -Original Message- From: Koushik Das [mailto:koushik@citrix.com<http://citrix.com>] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:51 PM To: mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Sub

RE: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-27 Thread Alex Huang
k Das [mailto:koushik@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:51 PM > To: > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities > > I haven't tried in XS 6.1 but in 6.2 if a VM is marked as HA enabled (based on > ha-restart-priority) in a HA e

Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-26 Thread Koushik Das
I haven't tried in XS 6.1 but in 6.2 if a VM is marked as HA enabled (based on ha-restart-priority) in a HA enabled cluster then if the VM is not stopped using xapi then it is automatically re-started. I tried the following on XS 6.2 and it worked as expected: - Logged on to a guest VM marked as

Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-26 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
According to http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xencenter-61/xs-xc-pools-ha-about. html XS HA is about dealing with host failures. However CS HA also deals with individual VM failures ("fast restart"). I hope you are not removing fast VM restart. On 11/26/13 6:54 AM, "David Nalley" wrote:

Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-26 Thread David Nalley
Hi Koushik: Thanks for the reply - a few followup comments inline. I look forward to seeing this work. Other folks: please read the entire thread and the links from Koushik; there's a planned deprecation here. --David On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Koushik Das wrote: > Thanks for the comment

Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-25 Thread Koushik Das
Thanks for the comments David. See inline. -Koushik On 22-Nov-2013, at 7:31 PM, David Nalley wrote: > Hi Koushik: > > In general I like the idea. A couple of comments: > > The upgrade section has a manual step for enabling HA manually per > instance. Why a manual step? Why is CloudStack not c

Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-22 Thread David Nalley
Hi Koushik: In general I like the idea. A couple of comments: The upgrade section has a manual step for enabling HA manually per instance. Why a manual step? Why is CloudStack not checking the desired state (e.g. if HA is enabled in the instance service group) with the actual state (what is refle

Re: [PROPOSAL] User VM HA using native XS HA capabilities

2013-11-22 Thread Koushik Das
Initial draft of the FS https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/User+VM+HA+using+native+XS+HA+capabilities -Koushik On 21-Nov-2013, at 9:59 AM, Koushik Das wrote: > Cloudstack relies on custom HA logic for user VMs running on Xenserver. The > reason for doing it like this may b