RE: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Turner
an in the orchestration layer. -- Stephen Turner -Original Message- From: Remi Bergsma [mailto:r...@remi.nl] Sent: 28 May 2015 12:53 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward Hi Stephen, Thanks for getting in touch! First of all, good to hear we agree th

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-28 Thread Remi Bergsma
Hi Stephen, Thanks for getting in touch! First of all, good to hear we agree that this change wasn't done in a nice way. For now, I think we should focus on documenting this change properly so folks are aware they need to change their setup. I wrote some documentation already that I'll port to 4.

RE: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-27 Thread Stephen Turner
I'm sorry to come late to this thread, but I only picked it up from Remi's blog post [*] over the weekend. I'm certainly not going to defend the way this change came in under the radar, but speaking as a member of the XenServer development team, I wouldn't want to go back to the old behaviour.

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread Tim Mackey
> > XenServer 6.0.2.! > > Can somebody give more information on this? > > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards, > > > > Swen Brüseke > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Remi Bergsma [mailto:r...@remi.nl] > > Gesendet: Die

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread Remi Bergsma
et: Dienstag, 5. Mai 2015 12:36 > An: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward > > Hi all, > > Thanks for pointing me to the proposal, Koushik. Too bad no one responded > to such a major change. > > When I put my "Opera

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-05 Thread Remi Bergsma
Hi all, Thanks for pointing me to the proposal, Koushik. Too bad no one responded to such a major change. When I put my "Operations" hat on, I see several issues. First of all, there was no mention of this change in the release notes. Not as a new feature, nor as a bug that was fixed. How do we e

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-04 Thread Koushik Das
The below is the proposal for switching to XenServer HA. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cloudstack-dev/201403.mbox/%3c83f77ff1bd50194ab65afa5479d082a71e4...@sjcpex01cl02.citrite.net%3E On 04-May-2015, at 9:03 PM, Tim Mackey wrote: > Thanks for starting this thread Remi. > > From my

Re: [DISCUSS] XenServer and HA: the way forward

2015-05-04 Thread Tim Mackey
Thanks for starting this thread Remi. >From my perspective the pros of simply enabling XenServer HA are: - automatic election of pool master in the event of hardware failure - automatic fencing of a host in the event of dom0 corruption - automatic fencing of a host in the event of heartbeat failu