[Openstack] Can I configure a cluster to do this?

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, I have a server & a laptop I'd like to use to make a cluster with OpenStack, so I can run a Windows 7 VM on either one. So that when I'm home I can run the VM on the fast server & rdp to it from another desktop at the house. And so when I'm out I can migrate it to the laptop & rdp to it loc

Re: [Openstack] VM disk affinity during live migration

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Bartels
D and SAS. Thanks, Jay 2013/6/1 Chris Bartels Thanks for your reply. Your reply implies that its possible to ensure that the disks stay on the right target manually. What would you have to do to make sure this happened? The SAS space is 228GB & the SSD space is only 64GB. S

Re: [Openstack] VM disk affinity during live migration

2013-05-31 Thread Chris Bartels
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[Openstack] VM disk affinity during live migration

2013-05-31 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, Please forgive me if I've asked already here on the list- I didn't get a reply & I really need an answer, so I'm asking again in simpler terms this time. If I have a cluster of servers, each with spindle drives & SSDs, how can I be sure VM disks which reside on spindle drives migrate to

[Openstack] HA & Tiered Storage

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, I have plans to rent dedicated servers running on full server sized VMs running on OpenStack, and the servers all will feature 2-tier storage schemes, so that the customers can have both a 10k rpm SAS drive based disk & another SSD based disk on their dedicated server. Each server will

Re: [Openstack] Using openstack to manage dedicated servers in a service provider setting

2013-05-27 Thread Chris Bartels
I'll just use full server sized VMs made of KVM & disclose in my product detail page that the dedicated servers are comprised of this design to mitigate the attack vector we're speaking of. -Original Message- From: Openstack [mailto:openstack-bounces+chris=christopherbartels@lists.laun

Re: [Openstack] Using openstack to manage dedicated servers in a service provider setting

2013-05-26 Thread Chris Bartels
lto:robe...@robertcollins.net] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:56 PM To: ch...@christopherbartels.com Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Using openstack to manage dedicated servers in a service provider setting On 27 May 2013 07:01, Chris Bartels wrote: > Hi, > > >

[Openstack] Using openstack to manage dedicated servers in a service provider setting

2013-05-26 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, I'm working on a startup that aims to rent dedicated servers to tech startups, and I would like to use OpenStack to manage the servers I rent out. I saw on the OpenStack Foundation YouTube channel there was a video there about using OpenStack to manage bare metal, but the presenter in t

[Openstack] openstack mailing list down?

2013-05-26 Thread Chris Bartels
I haven't received messages from the mailing list for 2 days, I can't imagine it going dead for that long without there being a problem with it, and am reluctant to post a real message to the list without first testing whether this one reaches it. If I'm posting this for no reason, please just

[Openstack] Memory requirements for OpenStack vs VM

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, If I rent a VPS with 32GB RAM on a server that only has 32GB RAM in total, could OpenStack be choked for memory if the VPS tries to use up all that RAM, or will OpenStack be weighted to take priority over the memory the server has available? Should I only allocate 30GB to the VPS & leav

[Openstack] Disk space requirements for Grizzly install

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, What's the smallest disk space I can allocate for the root partition of my OpenStack installation? I'm using a RAID10 of 8x 64GB SSDs, and have very limited disk space because I'll be using 2/3's of the cinder-volumes allocation for LVM snapshots. So I'd like to allocate as little a

[Openstack] Performance comparison data between using KVM vs Bare Metal

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, I'm working on starting a VPS provider utilizing OpenStack as the backend, and will be using KVM as the Hypervisor. I'm interested in finding data to feature on my website showing that KVM is the right choice in that it features near-native performance compared to bare metal. Can an

[Openstack] Customer Portal Security from Hackers

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, I'm interested in learning more about how to implement a customer portal for an OpenStack installation, and would like to know specifically about how the customer portal is safe from would-be hackers when exposed in the wild. I don't know if there are any additional measures I would have to

[Openstack] Dynamic VM memory depending on node

2013-05-18 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, I don't think this would be possible, but I figured I'd ask in case there's a way I just don't know about. I'd like to have my Windows 7 VM have 4 GB of memory when it resides in one node that has limited memory, and have 16 GB of memory when it migrates to another node that has more m

[Openstack] Suggestion for new Networking codename

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Bartels
How about 'Chain', or a variant thereof- a play on the word 'link', which is what a network consists of: links. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack

[Openstack] Distributed CPU/Memory

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Bartels
I just discovered ScaleMP, with their ability to consolidate CPU cores & memory from across the network to create large VMs out of disparate server nodes & was wondering if there was anyone working on something similar with OpenStack. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Google doesn't say much on the

[Openstack] Cinder's LVM vg creation when installing Grizzly

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, I have questions regarding this part of the Grizzly install guide that's up on github: . Finally, don't forget to create a volumegroup and name it cinder-volumes: . dd if=/dev/zero of=cinder-volumes bs=1 count=0 seek=2G . losetup /dev/loop2 cinder-volumes .

[Openstack] OpenStack in OpenStack Without a 'VT-x' CPU

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Bartels
Does the nested KVM running inside the OpenStack that runs inside another OpenStack get to take advantage of the VT-x of the host CPU? 2. Does OpenStack on OpenStack running KVM in each need VT-x on the host CPU at all to run properly? Please advise. Thanks in advance.

[Openstack] OpenStack Training

2013-04-25 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, My experience with virtualization has been limited to the ProxmoxVE platform, and with it I'm quite adept after working with it for a few years, however I'm looking forward to migrating to OpenStack & would like to find a way to learn as much about it as I can, in as efficient a manner as p

[Openstack] Renting Datacenter Space

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi, I'm new here- been lurking for awhile, this is my first message to the list. I have just recently started tinkering with OpenStack after discovering it recently. I started with virtualization using ProxmoxVE for Windows desktop hosting back in 2009-2010. I'm interested in launching a s