[Openstack] Share Glance between cells or regions

2013-05-15 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi, We're looking at setting up a geographically distributed OpenStack installation, and we're considering either cells or regions. We'd like to share a single Glance install between our regions (or cells), so the same images can be spawned anywhere. From here: http://docs.openstack.org/trun

Re: [Openstack] [HPC] Anyone interested in an HPC-themed unconference?

2013-04-15 Thread John Paul Walters
ack as a way to build a shared RC > infrastructure at Harvard at a level below the scheduler, and would love to > hear what others are > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:32 AM, John Paul Walters wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We missed the deadline for an HPC rel

[Openstack] [HPC] Anyone interested in an HPC-themed unconference?

2013-04-15 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi, We missed the deadline for an HPC related design summit session, but there's still time to sign up for an unconference if anyone's interested. Anyone interested? I'd propose one of the Wednesday slots. best, JP ___ Mailing list: https://launchpa

Re: [Openstack] using Glusterfs for instance storage

2013-04-11 Thread John Paul Walters
the right >> to write within the mounted directory? >> >> Razique Mahroua - Nuage & Co >> razique.mahr...@gmail.com >> Tel : +33 9 72 37 94 15 >> >> >> >> Le 11 avr. 2013 à 16:36, John Paul Walters a écrit : >> >>> Hi,

Re: [Openstack] using Glusterfs for instance storage

2013-04-11 Thread John Paul Walters
nova has the right > to write within the mounted directory? > > Razique Mahroua - Nuage & Co > razique.mahr...@gmail.com > Tel : +33 9 72 37 94 15 > > > > Le 11 avr. 2013 à 16:36, John Paul Walters a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> We've started i

[Openstack] using Glusterfs for instance storage

2013-04-11 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi, We've started implementing a Glusterfs-based solution for instance storage in order to provide live migration. I've run into a strange problem when using a multi-node Gluster setup that I hope someone has a suggestion to resolve. I have a 12 node distributed/replicated Gluster cluster. I

[Openstack] [HPC] monthly telecon

2012-09-28 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi All, The monthly HPC telecon is postponed until we have a better sense of the sessions that will be scheduled for the Grizzly Design Summit. We'll shoot for holding the telecon on Monday, Oct. 8 in the hopes that we'll know whether our HPC sessions were accepted. If the decisions aren't ye

[Openstack] [HPC] Reminder monthly telecon Sep. 10

2012-09-07 Thread John Paul Walters
adding to the Grizzly release. If anyone has any other specific agenda items, they're welcome to propose them. I'm unable to attend, so my colleague David Kang will be hosting this meeting. We look forward to talking to you! best, JP John Paul Walters invites you to attend

[Openstack] [HPC] Monthly telecon

2012-09-02 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi, The HPC telecon, normally scheduled for the first Monday of the month, will instead be held on Monday, Sep. 10 due to the Labor Day holiday in the US. It'll be held at 12:00 noon Eastern Time. I'll follow up with an agenda near the end of next week. If there's anything that others would

Re: [Openstack] What is the most commonly used Hypervisor and toolset combination?

2012-08-16 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi Boris, We have GPU passthrough working with NVIDIA GPUs in Xen 4.1.2, if I recall correctly. We don't yet have a stable Xen + Libvirt installation working, but we're looking at it. Perhaps it would be worth collaborating since it sounds like this could be a win for both of us. best, JP

[Openstack] [HPC] Reminder monthly telecon Aug. 6

2012-08-03 Thread John Paul Walters
ctices I hope to hear from you on Monday! best, JP -- John Paul Walters invites you to attend this online meeting. Topic: HPC Monthly Telecon Date: Monday, August 6, 2012 Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Meeting Number: 923 25

Re: [Openstack] [HPC] BoF at SC12

2012-07-23 Thread John Paul Walters
ion. What do others think? Would others be interested in attending? JP On Jul 22, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: > On Jul 6, 2012, at 1:28 PM, John Paul Walters wrote: > >> I'm strongly considering putting together a proposal for a BoF (birds of a >>

Re: [Openstack] Baremetal Provisioning and proxy-nova-compute

2012-07-10 Thread John Paul Walters
Trinath, Do you have a /tftpboot/ directory on your proxy compute server, and if so are there any error logs in there? Please send us any error logs that you find and we'll try to get you fixed up. JP On Jul 6, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Trinath Somanchi wrote: > Hi- > > I'm currently trying/testing

[Openstack] [HPC] BoF at SC12

2012-07-06 Thread John Paul Walters
I'm strongly considering putting together a proposal for a BoF (birds of a feather) session at this year's Supercomputing in Salt Lake City. For those of you who are likely to attend, is anyone else interested? It's not a huge amount of time invested on my end to put together the proposal, but

Re: [Openstack] [HPC] Openstack HPC telecon

2012-07-06 Thread John Paul Walters
Stefano, > > This is a great idea. HPC is an interesting topic and discussions around > it may be useful for lots of people. As format, I would suggest > something that can be recorded and played back conveniently, after it > happened. Casual Hangouts on Google are very trendy lately (it's the n

Re: [Openstack] [HPC] Openstack HPC telecon

2012-07-06 Thread John Paul Walters
Europe so it > would limit the participation. > > Tim > >> -Original Message- >> From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net >> [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf >> Of Narayan Desai >> Sent: 0

[Openstack] [HPC] Openstack HPC telecon

2012-07-06 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi All, One of the outputs of the design summit was that folks are interested in participating in a monthly (or so) telecon to express feature requests, best practices, etc. I'd like to get this process started. For those of you who are interested, what's the preferred format? IRC, telephone

Re: [Openstack] Openstack Baremetal Provisioning

2012-07-04 Thread John Paul Walters
node either tftp boots of nfs boots (I'm sorry, I don't have the details immediately available). best, JP - Original Message - From: "Trinath Somanchi" To: "John Paul Walters" Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2012 4:54:16 AM Subject:

Re: [Openstack] Openstack and Google Compute Engine

2012-07-03 Thread John Paul Walters
Matt, I agree with almost everything that you're saying, except to add that we hope to change things. I hope that our work at ISI is moving in that direction. But you're right, hypervisors add some overhead, network performance isn't always great, etc. Things are changing, albeit slowly, but

Re: [Openstack] Heterogeneous hardware support

2012-07-03 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi, I'm not sure that I fully understand the security angle that you're getting at here, but you and Jay are right that we're focusing on adding heterogeneity to Openstack. Right now we support large shared memory x86 machines, like SGI UVs, GPUs, and Tilera systems. The blueprints you linked

Re: [Openstack] Openstack Baremetal Provisioning

2012-07-02 Thread John Paul Walters
kes Proxy > nova-compute. > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:32 PM, John Paul Walters wrote: > Hi Trinath, > > Our baremetal experts are on vacation for the next week or so, so I'll take a > stab at answering in their absence. First, just to be clear, right now the > bar

Re: [Openstack] Openstack Baremetal Provisioning

2012-07-02 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi Trinath, Our baremetal experts are on vacation for the next week or so, so I'll take a stab at answering in their absence. First, just to be clear, right now the baremetal work that's present in Essex supports ONLY the Tilera architecture. We're working with the NTT folks to add additional

Re: [Openstack] Greatest deployment?

2012-05-24 Thread John Paul Walters
Hi, On May 24, 2012, at 5:45 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > >> OpenNebula has also this advantage, for me, that it's designed also to >> provide scientific cloud and it's used by few research centres and even >> supercomputing centres. How about Openstack? Anyone tried deploy it in >> supercompu

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack support: KVM vs. QEMU

2012-05-08 Thread John Paul Walters
What about PCI passthrough? I'm not certain, because I've never tried it without KVM, but I'd be surprised if it worked outside of KVM. JP On May 8, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Razique Mahroua wrote: > Hi Lorin, > not that I'm aware off. In fact, even out from Nova, both have the similar > features.

Re: [Openstack] RHEL 5 & 6 OpenStack image archive...

2012-03-02 Thread John Paul Walters
David, We're currently in the process of building Essex-3/Essex-4 RPMs locally at USC/ISI for our heterogeneous Openstack builds. When I looked at the EPEL testing repo, it looked like the packages that are currently available are right around Essex-1. Are there any plans to update to the mor