Re: [Openstack] what is the meaning to alliance with VMWare?

2013-07-28 Thread Brian Schott
OpenStack is an open-source foundation with lots of potential competitors working together to build a common infrastructure.  As long as they abide by the contributor license agreement anyone is welcome to participate in our open-source community.  So, OpenStack doesn't have an "alliance" with V

Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.

2013-07-26 Thread Brian Schott
by applications. I've been following diskimage-builder that is part of TripleO, but haven't tried to use it yet. https://github.com/stackforge/diskimage-builder Brian On Jul 26, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Scott Moser wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Brian Schott wrote: > >> When

Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.

2013-07-25 Thread Brian Schott
When you bundle the image, make sure you remove the /var/lib/cloud directory. It contains lock files and a local cache from the first time it was run. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx

Re: [Openstack] How to create image for first instance (CentOS 6.4)

2013-07-18 Thread Brian Schott
Did this work for you? http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-image/content/centos-image.html - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Jul 18, 2013, at 5:28 AM, "J

Re: [Openstack] Remote access to the windows virtual machine

2013-05-31 Thread Brian Schott
Stack Testing" and not production > workloads. > p > From: Openstack > [mailto:openstack-bounces+ppouliot=microsoft@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Narayanan, Krishnaprasad > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:53 PM > To: Brian Schott > Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.

Re: [Openstack] Remote access to the windows virtual machine

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Schott
d specify it in the security groups as this is already > taken care in the Windows firewall. > Thanks > Krishnaprasad > From: Brian Schott [mailto:brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com] > Sent: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2013 23:03 > To: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad > Cc: openstack@lists

Re: [Openstack] Remote access to the windows virtual machine

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Schott
For windows, you could add TCP port 3389 to your security group and enable remote desktop access in windows. The VNC console access in Horizon is really intended for administrative/management access rather than production usage. Brian - Brian

Re: [Openstack] Customer Portal Security from Hackers

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Schott
The OpenStack customer-facing portal is called Horizon and is based on Django. https://github.com/openstack/horizon It's intended to be tailored and play nicely with other Django applications. That would be the first place to start. The rest depends on what kind of interface you want to present

Re: [Openstack] Future of Launchpad OpenStack mailing list (this list)

2012-09-14 Thread Brian Schott
Stack-partner [no description available] - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Sep 14, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Stefano Maffulli wrote: >> I

[Openstack] OpenStack SC12 BOF reviews

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Schott
Fortran BOF this year and their average age is probably 70. Is anyone aware of any SC12 sessions that we might crash? Discuss it on openstack-hpc list! http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc Brian - Brian Schott, CTO

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-hpc] [HPC] Reminder monthly telecon Sep. 10

2012-09-10 Thread Brian Schott
OK. Standing by. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:02 PM, David Kang wrote: > > Hello, > > We will use different webex host toda

Re: [Openstack] Future of Launchpad OpenStack mailing list (this list)

2012-08-28 Thread Brian Schott
ail address for the sake of optimization of having "too many lists" at the cost of community confusion is false optimization, you'll just get more non-dev traffic on the dev list if the choice is -dev or -operators. Brian ----- Brian Sc

Re: [Openstack] Future of Launchpad OpenStack mailing list (this list)

2012-08-27 Thread Brian Schott
Stef, It's pretty obvious to me that there should be a general list at openst...@lists.openstack.org. The operators list is intended for operations people that host OpenStack deployments, not a general OpenStack user audience. I'd create the general openstack list, and setup a daily post to t

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-24 Thread Brian Schott
Yeah, but does that mean the instance is alive and billable :-)? I guess that counts! I thought they were only in response to external API/admin requests. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-24 Thread Brian Schott
I take it that the instance manager doesn't generate any kind of heartbeat, so whatever monitoring/archiving service we do should internally poll the status over MQ? - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.c

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-23 Thread Brian Schott
Doug, Do we mirror the table structure of nova, etc. and add created/modified columns? Or do we flatten into an instance event record with everything? Bran - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-23 Thread Brian Schott
rface that Ken wrote allowed you to modify flavors. That would break billing unless you also track flavor modifications. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 23, 2012,

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-23 Thread Brian Schott
Is there a document somewhere on what events the services emit? - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 23, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Monsyne Dragon wrote: > This alre

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
I captured some of our discussion in the etherpad, but feel free to extend. Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 22, 2012, at 9:32 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
r an billing approval hook into keystone? Could be modeled like oauth style transaction. --------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 22, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
The heart of nova-biling is built around accounts, resources, billing segments with a tariff and cost. Not clear at my first review where/how these costs are set. Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
, what is the status with respect to merging with trunk? The project looks interesting and much further along that I though. Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
inute because I don't know when an instance was terminated by the user or just crashed. --------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 22, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Endre Karlson

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
o put a metering system in that can handle many billing configurations. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote: > Doug

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

2012-04-22 Thread Brian Schott
avor, image, volume, network, combination and generate invoices as you describe. 3. I'd steer away from mandating implementation technologies in the architecture. MongoDB is fine, but others here would prefer to make their own deployment choices. Brian -

[Openstack] seeking brainstorm topic inputs: Bridging the HPC Gap using OpenStack

2012-03-27 Thread Brian Schott
http://etherpad.openstack.org/HVHsTqOQGc Thanks, Brian - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic sign

Re: [Openstack] HPC with Openstack?

2011-12-02 Thread Brian Schott
e code wins, which is why I like it. I spent a lot of time at SC11 talking to HPC folks about OpenStack. Brian ----- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Dec 2, 2011,

Re: [Openstack] Proposal for Lorin Hochstein to join nova-core

2011-11-29 Thread Brian Schott
+1 - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > Lorin has been a great contributor to Nova for a long time and has b

Re: [Openstack] Charisma of ostack

2011-11-21 Thread Brian Schott
IT investment? Even OpenSolaris has been officially killed by Oracle. The advantage of the OpenStack brand is vendor portability in cloud. Brian --------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060

Re: [Openstack] Supercomputing 2011 birds-of-a-feather session in Seattle this week?

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Schott
dative plural latin for nimbus, meaning "to the clouds", but it gets lost in translation... ----- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Micha

[Openstack] Supercomputing 2011 birds-of-a-feather session in Seattle this week?

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Schott
Our team will be out in Seattle this week at the Supercomputing conference. Anyone else planning to be there? Was looking for a BOF session but didn't see one. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph

Re: [Openstack] Handling Schema Changes in Keystone

2011-10-25 Thread Brian Schott
not doing it the same way another openstack > project does it? > > If you can use nova's method, then we get closer to having standard > operating procedures for openstack projects... > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Brian Schott > wrote: >> It's probab

Re: [Openstack] Handling Schema Changes in Keystone

2011-10-25 Thread Brian Schott
or data upgrade/downgrade. Don't know if this has been an issue in real deployments, but the opportunity for sysadmin excellence is certainly there Brian ----- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack API Versioning Conventions

2011-10-11 Thread Brian Schott
OK, I get it now :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: > C

Re: [Openstack] 55PB storage cloud hosted using Swift

2011-09-29 Thread Brian Schott
OK, so not as impressive. Never mind ;-) - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Sep 29, 2011, at 4:37 PM, John Dickinson wrote: > clarification: 5.5PB > > &g

[Openstack] 55PB storage cloud hosted using Swift

2011-09-29 Thread Brian Schott
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Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
;t need to be the ID string > itself). Swift already does this (account/container/object), so we > have a pretty good example to follow here. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
ed by REST-based authentication and would be available to the API service. ----- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Eric Day wrote: > On Mon, Ju

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
nd the probability of collision plummets. You have to authenticate the user credentials anyway, right? The probability that the same user will have an internal collision in his own pool of instances is very small. ----- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Ser

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
collision case where two different users get short-form ID i-abcdefgh from the API service, the API service resolves the ambiguity based on other context information in the call (user-id, tag/name/label, state, ...). --------- Brian Schott,

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
this perspective, the EC2 API has a better customer abstraction. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-10 Thread Brian Schott
tance-type, flavor, etc. they should be dealing with a more abstract pool of resources hosts, instances, networks, etc. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Jul 9, 2011,

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-10 Thread Brian Schott
On Jul 9, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Devin Carlen wrote: > 1) Why are we even trying to have the same ID for an instance or image across > two different APIs? Even if we just pass back the first-8 with the EC2 API, it would be good if there were some logical mapping so that somebody that works with Ela

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-08 Thread Brian Schott
ay as EC2 will do it. - Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Jul 8, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: > > I think it actually looks more like thi

Re: [Openstack] Feedback on HTTP APIs

2011-06-02 Thread Brian Schott
ve to have a full URI to the resource to avoid naming ambiguities. RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122.html and what Python gives you in the UUID class: http://docs.python.org/library/uuid.html Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > Yes, it&#x

Re: [Openstack] SQLAlchemy migration number conflicts

2011-06-01 Thread Brian Schott
That's not crazy, but I'd recommend a range of numbers 900-999? There have been cases where larger branches have multiple migrate files. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > This might be a little crazy, but how about

Re: [Openstack] SQLAlchemy migration number conflicts

2011-06-01 Thread Brian Schott
on 13. You can't revert back to migration 11 because the new migration 12 is in the way. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > Another option is to have a migration reservation page in the wiki. It > would contain a table with a seq

Re: [Openstack] Standardizing resource IDs on UUID?

2011-05-28 Thread Brian Schott
, you can use EC2 style ids and convert easily to globally unique UUIDs internally. Backwards compatible 1.0/1.1 OS API servers can do the same. Brian Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com On May 27, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On May 27, 2011, a

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack API, Reservation ID's and Num Instances ...

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Schott
erate a 1000 instance request, then hitting the API server 1000 more times to check the status until a 1000 instances return "running". That's a lot of socket connections. The SeverDetailsResponse isn't a list? You can't just return: ... ... ... Brian Sc

Re: [Openstack] [SPAM] Re: Discussion on October Design Summit Locations

2011-05-04 Thread Brian Schott
work. Brian Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com On May 4, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Stephen Spector wrote: > >> Andrew: > >> > >> How will the final decision be made? > > Right now, I am working with the Rackspace events team to

Re: [Openstack] distributed and heterogeneous schedulers

2011-04-13 Thread Brian Schott
Jay, > :( I've brought this up before as well. The term metadata is used > incorrectly to refer to custom key/value attributes of something > instead of referring to data about the data (for instance, the type > and length constraints of a data field). We could move the cpu_info, xpu_info, and ne

[Openstack] distributed and heterogeneous schedulers

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Schott
I'm trying to understand how best to implement our architecture-aware scheduler for Diablo: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/schedule-instances-on-heterogeneous-architectures Right now our scheduler is similar in approach to SimpleScheduler with a few extra filters on instances and c

Re: [Openstack] Any progress on RequestCapabilities? Can I contribute?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Schott
_types_metadata table for things like "cpu_arch" rather than our current approach? As long as we can inject a "-t cg1.4xlarge" at one end and have that get routed to a compute node with GPU hardware on the other end, we're not tied to the centralized database implementation.

Re: [Openstack] heterogeneous instance types

2011-04-01 Thread Brian Schott
cores! ArchitectureScheduler is comparing vcpus to vcpus_used in compute_nodes table to find resources, although I am concerned our approach might induce a race condition. Brian Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Apr 1, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Ferran Rodenas wrote: > Brian, nice spec! It's

Re: [Openstack] heterogeneous instance types

2011-04-01 Thread Brian Schott
bare metal TFTP-boot image management system for the Tilera system because it doesn't currently support KVM or Xen. I could see some HPC folks interested in managing bare-metal XCAT or Perceus machines. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote

[Openstack] heterogeneous instance types

2011-04-01 Thread Brian Schott
gepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k:8168 kB DirectMap2M:134209536 kB $ uname -a Linux i-0007 2.6.35-22-virtual #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 23:19:29 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux --- Brian Schott USC I

[Openstack] heterogeneous instance types blueprint

2011-03-31 Thread Brian Schott
Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 23:19:29 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux --- Brian Schott USC Information Sciences Institute http://www.east.isi.edu/~bschott ph: 703-812-3722 fx: 703-812-3712 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to :

Re: [Openstack] installing Nova in the Cloud

2011-03-31 Thread Brian Schott
Do you have a public image? It would be handy for those of us that have infrastructure on EC2 to be able to spin up test servers. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Mar 31, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Chuck Short wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:57:03 -0700 > Nelson Nahum wrote: > >&g

Re: [Openstack] POC for Pluggable Network Service

2011-03-31 Thread Brian Schott
Internet2 wide area network. Tom Lehman in our group can better describe the networking side. --- Brian Schott USC Information Sciences Institute http://www.east.isi.edu/~bschott ph: 703-812-3722 fx: 703-812-3712 On Mar 31, 2011, at 2:30 AM, 石井 久治 wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have impl

[Openstack] good overview briefings

2011-03-30 Thread Brian Schott
Are there any good overview slide briefings for OpenStack available? Doing some presentations to our sponsors and need a couple of good top-level overview slides. Thanks, Brian Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack Design Summit Registration Open

2011-03-24 Thread Brian Schott
Or blueprints. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: >> Sorry if I am just way out of the loop here, but where do we submit talk >> proposals / sign up for a talk? > > You should contact Stephen Spector, who has been handling the CFP process

Re: [Openstack] Instance IDs and Multiple Zones

2011-03-22 Thread Brian Schott
was 0, and the recent change incremented it to 1. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Mar 22, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > The main issue that drove integers is backwards compatibility to the ec2_api > and existing ec2 toolsets. People seemed very opposed to the idea

Re: [Openstack] Instance IDs and Multiple Zones

2011-03-22 Thread Brian Schott
in databases, simple allocation, and ease of programming in general. Since UUIDs are unique and persistent, they make excellent Uniform Resource Names. The unique ability to generate a new UUID without a registration process allows for UUIDs to be one of the URNs with the lowest minti

Re: [Openstack] GLANCE: How to deal with SQLAlchemy-migrate problems

2011-03-21 Thread Brian Schott
l do, crib from the previous example. I just added downgrade() because the example I followed didn't do that. We can be propagating bad habits. Realize, this is Nova, not Glance, so sorry if off topic. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Mar 21, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > Hi

Re: [Openstack] GLANCE: How to deal with SQLAlchemy-migrate problems

2011-03-21 Thread Brian Schott
n multiple stages. Less efficient, but it might traverse less untested code in SA-migrate. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Justin Santa Barbara > wrote: >>> By "seemed powerful", did y

Re: [Openstack] multi_nic and mac addresses

2011-02-25 Thread Brian Schott
Look at instance migration branch ComputeService table. How about json text field network-info. We want to do qdr infiniban ifs also. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Trey Morris wrote: > Tracking mac addresses is going to have to change for multi-nic. Instances > are going

Re: [Openstack] Availability of RHEL build of Bexar release of OpenStack Nova

2011-02-25 Thread Brian Schott
RHEL. We had to hack Python 2.6.6 onto our boxes as a temporary measure, because 2.6.0 is what ships. Brian --- Brian Schott, Project Leader USC Information Sciences Institute http://www.east.isi.edu/~bschott ph: 703-812-3722 fx: 703-812-3712 On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:55 PM, John Purrier

Re: [Openstack] Instances lost after reboot

2011-02-23 Thread Brian Schott
How did you install and launch OpenStack? The instances are stored in a sqllite or mysql table depending on how things are configured. Brian Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:53 PM, George Argyrides wrote: > > Why do i lose instances after reboot? > How

Re: [Openstack] documentation of flags, introducing of a naming convention for flags

2011-02-22 Thread Brian Schott
+1 We are also struggling with the various and sundry deployment options. Getting bit by the multiple mechanisms to install and launch openstack. --- Brian Schott, Project Leader USC Information Sciences Institute http://www.east.isi.edu/~bschott ph: 703-812-3722 fx: 703-812-3712 On Feb 22

Re: [Openstack] Steps that can help stabilize Nova's trunk

2011-02-17 Thread Brian Schott
grade ; run_test.sh -N to work. How about some automation to "Score your Branch"? Do that BEFORE a branch gets proposed for review. Encourage committers to post their branch score in the bug. At least we when see what is broken. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 17, 2011, at

Re: [Openstack] Steps that can help stabilize Nova's trunk

2011-02-17 Thread Brian Schott
" was what committers should strive to achieve before submitting a branch for review. That means you might win the booby prize and hit python_migrate bug totally unrelated to your patch. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Soren Hansen wrote: > One other thing I forg

Re: [Openstack] Steps that can help stabilize Nova's trunk

2011-02-16 Thread Brian Schott
One thing we saw in the list and experienced first hand is that your Hudson server uses a pre-configured environment and ours pulls virtual env every time. We had failures on trunk that yours missed because of new pip pulled versions. A fresh run_tests.sh -f needs to work. It is the only guara

Re: [Openstack] Build Failures on hudson

2011-02-14 Thread Brian Schott
We are having an issue where the first x509 test is creating an empty database in the CA subdirectory and all subsequent tests fail. Is your Hudson server using -f flag on run_tests? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > The intermittent failure on hud

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Schott
+1 Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 11, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > I just don't think you can get enough information from zone. > Volumes/Instances might > need to be literally in the same rack. The same could be true for > lbs/firewalls. Coarse

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Schott
organization for that matter. The only value I see in zones is that spreading across them gives me fault tolerance and selecting one gives me somewhat better network performance (or saves bandwidth charges). Exposing your topology can be a bad thing. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Schott
t;any;near_volume='v1234'" euca-run-instances -t "small;!local_gb=2048" -z "any;topolgy='cluster'" euca-run-instances -t "small;!local_gb=2048" -z "any;topolgy='spreadout'" I don't care about the syntax, but a ! flag or

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Schott
On Feb 11, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > No. The -t flag is part of the eucatools CLI program, that's all I was > saying. The instanceType xs:string element is what's part of the EC2 > API. Correct, but eucatools allows arbitrary strings. > Sure. Here's the code from the file referenced a

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Schott
nse from the EC2-centric perspective. Also want to stress to think about flavors/instance_types as "advertised" configurations, but that deployments might want to allow even these to be overridden. --- Brian Schott, Project Leader USC Information Scienc

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Schott
Ken, Absolutely. We would like to debate a few additional columns, but yes this is the right blueprint to work from. Brian Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 11, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Ken Pepple wrote: > On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Brian Schott wrote: >> Right now, we'r

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Schott
consistent with "flavors" if I understand the OpenStack API correctly. I see in flavors.py that is uses the instance_types.py defined data. --- http://docs.openstack.org/compute/api/v1.1";> --- So, we would want to make the same flavor attributes available through list-flav

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Schott
nes also, but some of these scheduler hints don't really fit zones defined during datacenter deployment. Justin, I'd be happy to work with you if you think your blueprint matches above. We're actually pretty close to having a bexar-branched prototype working in nova-hpc branch. Br

Re: [Openstack] Allowing clients to pass capability requests through tags?

2011-02-10 Thread Brian Schott
through instance_types. What you describe is more flexible, but I wonder if for EC2 api we could stretch the -t flag. Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: > Does anyone have any thoughts/objections on the blueprint I posted for > al

[Openstack] Fwd: Pondering multi-tenant needs in nova.

2011-02-07 Thread Brian Schott
t the functionality of projects is what is required. So what is the limitation? Begin forwarded message: > From: Brian Schott > Date: February 6, 2011 6:09:02 PM EST > To: Sandy Walsh > Cc: Jay Pipes , John Purrier , > "openstack@lists.launchpad.net" > Subject

Re: [Openstack] Pondering multi-tenant needs in nova.

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Schott
counts as a box to the LEFT of Users that groups multiple users into a single billing domain? http://nova.openstack.org/adminguide/managing.projects.html <> Brian Schott bfsch...@gmail.com On Feb 6, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote: > I think, but I'm not sure, that Gl