Re: [Openstack] Windows images into OpenStack

2018-05-11 Thread Tim Bell
Watch out for the cores/sockets properties too. Desktop Windows can limit the available resources if every core is a different socket. See http://clouddocs.web.cern.ch/clouddocs/details/image_properties.html Tim -Original Message- From: Chris Friesen Date: Friday, 11 May 2018 at 19:

Re: [Openstack] Clock Drift

2018-03-25 Thread Tim Bell
Are you snapshotting the VMs? We’ve seen some delays while the VM is paused and being snapshotted and then there is too much time difference for NTP to catch up again… Tim From: Tyler Bishop Date: Saturday, 24 March 2018 at 18:37 To: Pablo Iranzo Gómez Cc: "openstack@lists.openstack.org" Sub

Re: [Openstack] Hello all Magnum project info

2017-12-09 Thread Tim Bell
There was an update on Magnum at the OpenStack Sydney summit (https://www.openstack.org/videos/sydney-2017/magnum-project-update). We’re using it at CERN based off the RDO distribution with over 100 different clusters. We’re running Kubernetes 1.8. Documentation for the CERN user is at http://

Re: [Openstack] Deployment for production

2017-05-03 Thread Tim Bell
to deploy stuff right? I found packstack very easy and handy to deploy stuff, why people hate it? what could go wrong if we deploy using packstack? On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Tim Bell wrote: > You also need to assess the skills of your administration team, will th

Re: [Openstack] Deployment for production

2017-05-03 Thread Tim Bell
You also need to assess the skills of your administration team, will they need help to set things up, consulting, formal support contract etc. At CERN, we’re running packages and puppet configuration derived from RDO in production. Tim On 03.05.17, 17:56, "Satish Patel" wrote: Problem is

Re: [Openstack] nova-network -> neutron migration docs and stories?

2017-03-18 Thread Tim Bell
Ricardo from CERN gave a talk in Barcelona about our experiences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54wp1yzC-d8 eBay was one of the first to migrate - http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/ebay-in-production-migration-from-nova-network-to-neutron/ Tim From: joe Date: Friday, 17 March 2017 at

Re: [Openstack] nova assign instances to cpu pinning

2017-02-07 Thread Tim Bell
Fully agreed … great documentation. I’ve added the link to all the CERN blogs to include Recent 2017 documentation is now at http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide/compute-adv-config.html so that people find the latest recommendations. Tim From: Arne Wiebalck Date: Tuesday, 7 February 2017 a

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-community] User Survey - Deadline Feb 20th

2017-02-01 Thread Tim Bell
I’m getting a too many redirect error on the user survey link. Tim On 01.02.17, 20:21, "Tom Fifield" wrote: Hi all, If you run OpenStack, please take a few minutes to respond to the latest User Survey or pass it along to your friends. This is the ninth survey, but if

Re: [Openstack] How to enable x-data-plane on VirtIO blk device

2017-02-01 Thread Tim Bell
There was a blueprint opened in 2015 (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/add-virtio-data-plane-support-for-qemu) but I don’t think there has been any development. Tim From: Sunny Anthony Date: Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 13:30 To: openstack Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to enable x

Re: [Openstack] Determining hardware CPU?

2016-12-01 Thread Tim Bell
Depending on how you configure Nova, you can expose the details of the underlying CPU model. See Host passthrough in http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/compute/hypervisor-kvm.html for details. Tim On 02.12.16, 02:02, "Ken D'Ambrosio" wrote: Hey, all. For various reasons,

Re: [Openstack] password in clear text

2016-03-23 Thread Tim Bell
On 23/03/16 18:41, "Clint Byrum" wrote: >Excerpts from Tim Bell's message of 2016-03-23 09:17:20 -0700: >> >> The difficulty with the environment variables is that the administrator of >> the box you are logged into can read the environment using ps aux. >> >> There has been some work don

Re: [Openstack] password in clear text

2016-03-23 Thread Tim Bell
openstack client, you can avoid the password in clear text in your environment. Tim From: Jagga Soorma mailto:jagg...@gmail.com>> Date: Wednesday 23 March 2016 at 18:01 To: Tim Bell mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch>> Cc: "CARVER, PAUL" mailto:pc2...@att.com>>, openstack mailto:o

Re: [Openstack] password in clear text

2016-03-23 Thread Tim Bell
The difficulty with the environment variables is that the administrator of the box you are logged into can read the environment using ps aux. There has been some work done to support storing all the variables in a file (which would be an environment variable) such that the CLIs read from th

Re: [Openstack] password in clear text

2016-03-23 Thread Tim Bell
We use Kerberos and X.509 in Keystone V3 for the end users. It works very nicely (although the python client-* CLIs often do not support it so you have to use the openstack OSC CLI) Tim From: Mike Smith mailto:mism...@overstock.com>> Date: Wednesday 23 March 2016 at 16:28 To: openstack mailto:

Re: [Openstack] Kilo new and enfanced features

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Bell
The Kilo release notes are at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Kilo Tim From: Mahmoud Terri Date: Sunday 28 February 2016 at 07:52 To: "openstack@lists.openstack.org" Subject: [Openstack] Kilo new and enfanced features Hi all I need a sort of document where I can find the enh

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] [Cinder] Block device name / ordering

2016-02-17 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Riedemann [mailto:mrie...@linux.vnet.ibm.com] > Sent: 18 February 2016 03:11 > To: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] [Cinder] Block device name / ordering > > > > On 2/17/2016 6:49 PM, Bruno L wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > >

Re: [Openstack] Cells: *how* experimental?

2016-01-28 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Clint Byrum [mailto:cl...@fewbar.com] > Sent: 29 January 2016 00:10 > To: openstack > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Cells: *how* experimental? > > Excerpts from Ken D'Ambrosio's message of 2016-01-28 12:39:01 -0800: > > Hey, all. Trying to have geographically-disp

Re: [Openstack] Poor instance network performance

2015-12-17 Thread Tim Bell
Was that the VM or the hypervisor ? These tips are good to include the upcoming hypervisor tuning guide (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/HypervisorTuningGuide) Tim > -Original Message- > From: Satish Patel [mailto:satish@gmail.com] > Sent: 17 December 2015 18:55 > To:

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] [openstack][magnum] Quota for Magnum Resources

2015-12-15 Thread Tim Bell
that’s something we could fold in as well to our design. Do you agree? Adrian On Dec 14, 2015, at 10:22 PM, Tim Bell mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch> > wrote: Can we have nested project quotas in from the beginning ? Nested projects are in Keystone V3 from Kilo onwards and retrofittin

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] [openstack][magnum] Quota for Magnum Resources

2015-12-14 Thread Tim Bell
Can we have nested project quotas in from the beginning ? Nested projects are in Keystone V3 from Kilo onwards and retrofitting this is hard work. For details, see the Nova functions at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/242626/. Cinder now also has similar functions. Tim From: Vilobh Mes

Re: [Openstack] Can I run kilo on CentOS6.3 X86_64 in Production environment?

2015-10-18 Thread Tim Bell
There was a recipe from GoDaddy for how to use software collections to do this (you need Python 2.7 which is not the default on CentOS 6). However, it should really only be used for those who have a lot of OpenStack experience and Linux skills. Tim From: 暂无 Date: Saturday 17 October 2015 01:2

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] Rescinding the M name decision

2015-07-09 Thread Tim Bell
Feel free to give input on the Mitaka proposal. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Bryce [mailto:jbr...@jbryce.com] > Sent: 09 July 2015 20:52 > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack] Rescinding the M name decisio

Re: [Openstack] How should an instance learn what tenant it is in?

2015-06-17 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Jan van Eldik [mailto:jan.van.el...@cern.ch] > Sent: 17 June 2015 20:54 > To: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] How should an instance learn what tenant it is in? > > Hi Andrew, > > > I'm considering rewriting this hack to write the

Re: [Openstack] Swift - Adding S3 Glacier like interface in Swift & Swift3 Object Storage

2015-05-06 Thread Tim Bell
There was a recent post on a SWIFT tape implementation at https://github.com/BDT-GER/SWIFT-TLC Tim > -Original Message- > From: Samuel Merritt [mailto:s...@swiftstack.com] > Sent: 06 May 2015 19:03 > To: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Swift - Adding S3 Glacier l

[Openstack] Random source if not set

2015-04-20 Thread Tim Bell
According to the nova.conf documentation, there is a parameter for the rng_dev_path for the source of the /dev/random on guests which are appropriately enabled. The help in the documentation at that the default value is and the permitted options are /dev/random or /dev/hwrng. If these are the

Re: [Openstack] Production grade guidelines

2015-03-31 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com] > Sent: 31 March 2015 16:37 > To: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Production grade guidelines > > On 03/31/2015 02:23 AM, somshekar kadam wrote: > > Any pointers or link to make openstack production

Re: [Openstack] BUG: soft lockup messages

2015-01-07 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf [mailto:r...@researchut.com] > Sent: 07 January 2015 09:06 > To: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] BUG: soft lockup messages > > > The profile of this hardware looks virtualized. That makes me ask if you have > i

Re: [Openstack] Guest agent and fsfreeze

2015-01-04 Thread Tim Bell
Tang [mailto:heut2...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 January 2015 05:44 To: Tim Bell Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Openstack] Guest agent and fsfreeze This feature is being added during Kilo, https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/quiesced-image-snapshots-with-qemu-guest-agent, so if you

[Openstack] Guest agent and fsfreeze

2015-01-02 Thread Tim Bell
I'm trying to get the guest agent working on OpenStack. I have enabled the guest agent using the property | Property 'hw_qemu_guest_agent' | yes | The VM has the qemu guest agent installed $ rpm -qa | grep guest qemu-guest-agent-1.5.3-60.el7_0.11.x86_64 The service has been started /bin/syst

Re: [Openstack] Scheduled Backup (was Openstack capabilities)

2014-12-23 Thread Tim Bell
There is a need for an end user service for backup/snapshot on a schedule. Raksha (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Raksha) was close but does not seem to be actively developed at the moment. Extensions for remote replication on schedule would be really welcome. It is not clear to me how the st

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStackClient] List availability zones and usage

2014-12-09 Thread Tim Bell
out: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackClient/Commands But we're slowly migrating that info to RST: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/python-openstackclient/command-list.html Thanks for the feedback! Steve Tim Bell mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch>> wrote on 12/09/2014 02:47:05

[Openstack] [OpenStackClient] List availability zones and usage

2014-12-09 Thread Tim Bell
We’ve been using the openstack CLI at CERN to get the additional plug ins for Kerberos / X.509. We’re seeing a few cases where there does not seem to be an equivalent command to nova. -List availability zones -Nova usage command for a brief list of the resources used by a proj

Re: [Openstack] Can I build Openstack cloud on windows7

2014-11-27 Thread Tim Bell
Have a look at http://www.cloudbase.it/. I suspect it would need to be on Windows Server rather than Windows 7. Tim From: lucas.g...@gmail.com [mailto:lucas.g...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 November 2014 07:09 To: kyawthu win Cc: openstack Subject: Re: [Openstack] Can I build Openstack cloud on windows7

Re: [Openstack] [icehouse][HA]

2014-10-12 Thread Tim Bell
The OpenStack marketplace at http://openstack.org/marketplace is a good place to start looking. The distros and appliances section lists many options. Tim From: Adam Lawson [mailto:alaw...@aqorn.com] Sent: 11 October 2014 22:47 To: Chinasubbareddy M Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re

Re: [Openstack] sharepoint replacement

2014-09-29 Thread Tim Bell
You can run sharepoint on top of OpenStack in a Windows VM… they are not really equivalent products. OpenStack fits more into the SCVMM area rather than Sharepoint. Tim From: Michael Petersen [mailto:mpeter...@mirantis.com] Sent: 29 September 2014 19:47 To: Remo Mattei Cc: openstack Subject: Re

Re: [Openstack] Rackspace abandons Open vSwitch ?

2014-09-29 Thread Tim Bell
Are there any references for people running OpenContrail at scale ? From: NAPIERALA, MARIA H [mailto:mn1...@att.com] Sent: 29 September 2014 19:26 To: denni...@conversis.de Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Openstack] Rackspace abandons Open vSwitch ? .. > What are the alternat

Re: [Openstack] Rackspace abandons Open vSwitch ?

2014-09-27 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn [mailto:denni...@conversis.de] > Sent: 27 September 2014 13:26 > To: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Rackspace abandons Open vSwitch ? > > On 27.09.2014 06:37, Jason Kölker wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:50 A

Re: [Openstack] [Openstack-operators] RabbitMQ issues since upgrading to Icehouse

2014-09-02 Thread Tim Bell
What was the problem with metadata workers set to 2 ? Tim > -Original Message- > From: Sam Morrison [mailto:sorri...@gmail.com] > Sent: 03 September 2014 00:55 > To: Abel Lopez > Cc: openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org; openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators

Re: [Openstack] Where are Keystone trusts documented?

2014-07-26 Thread Tim Bell
Steve, Thanks for the pointer. Is there any operator/user oriented documentation for this area ? It is quite a complex topic and the documentation reference you give is very consumer/developer oriented. Tim From: Steve Martinelli [mailto:steve...@ca.ibm.com] Sent: 26 July 2014 06:45 To: Mike

Re: [Openstack] Service Now integration?

2014-07-17 Thread Tim Bell
year Tim From: Michael Gale [mailto:gale.mich...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 July 2014 18:39 To: Tim Bell Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Openstack] Service Now integration? Hey Tim, Well I am very new to ServiceNow but I was thinking the following would be helpful: * Create

Re: [Openstack] Service Now integration?

2014-07-16 Thread Tim Bell
What kind of integration are you looking for ? If you're using Puppet, there is some integration with the CMDB (http://puppetlabs.com/blog/servicenow-configuration-automation-integrates-puppet-enterprise) At CERN, we've just written some standard record producers for common actions such as new

Re: [Openstack] Cells options and configuration

2014-06-23 Thread Tim Bell
We are using cells at CERN. Currently enabling our 6th cell. There are some restrictions to bear in mind. See http://openstack-in-production.blogspot.fr/ and Belmiro's talk at the Hong Kong summit http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/session-videos/presentation/deep-

Re: [Openstack] Legacy Application Run on top of OpenStack

2014-06-05 Thread Tim Bell
The Congress project seems to be aiming to do some work in this area. It is still in blueprint stage so not concrete yet. Tim From: hossein zabolzadeh [mailto:zabolza...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 June 2014 18:21 To: Green, Paul Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Openstack] Legacy Applica

Re: [Openstack] Legacy Application Run on top of OpenStack

2014-05-29 Thread Tim Bell
For those interested in CloudStack's functionality in this area, they provide restart of hypervisors and VMs as described in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/High+Availability+Developer's+Guide Tim > -Original Message- > From: Amrith Kumar [mailto:amr...@tesora.co

Re: [Openstack] OEL Support

2014-05-18 Thread Tim Bell
There was an Oracle announcement regarding OVM/OEL.. http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140513-907525.html Tim ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe :

Re: [Openstack] [nova] Havana -> Icehouse upgrades with cells

2014-04-18 Thread Tim Bell
It would certainly be interesting to see how we could upgrade without a big multi node upgrade. Would the option of upgrading the Cell API nodes first to Icehouse work better ? Tim -Original Message- From: Andrew Laski [mailto:andrew.la...@rackspace.com] Sent: 18 April 2014 14:49 To:

Re: [Openstack] nova shelve option not appearing

2014-02-25 Thread Tim Bell
RDO Icehouse http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/openstack-icehouse/rdo-release-icehouse.rpm which seems to install 2014.1 release. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Laski [mailto:andrew.la...@rackspace.com] > Sent: 25 February 2014 20:40 > To: Tim Bell > Cc: openstack@

Re: [Openstack] nova unique name generator middleware

2014-02-02 Thread Tim Bell
; +code > >> to achieve similar results. > >> > >> Sent from my really tiny device... > >> > >> > On Feb 2, 2014, at 12:12 AM, "Tim Bell" wrote: > >> > > >> > It would be interesting to have a formal exit inside Op

Re: [Openstack] nova unique name generator middleware

2014-02-02 Thread Tim Bell
It would be interesting to have a formal exit inside OpenStack nova at VM creation for this sort of check rather than having to patch the code. Other scenarios that I've seen is where there is a need to enforce limits as the server name is used for other purposes. Examples are characters in the

Re: [Openstack] Export tenant configuration

2014-01-22 Thread Tim Bell
Some open source packages produce a list of commands that need to run in order to re-create a specific item. So, for a project, there would be a command to create the project, set quota, ... This is more friendly for tweaking afterwards (such as create me a project with "-devel" after the nam

Re: [Openstack] [User-committee] Formulate application developer oriented questions for the user survey

2014-01-16 Thread Tim Bell
+1 Full support from my side on this proposal... We would need a new section for the end user questions... we currently have questions about the person (such as what should be the priorities) and the deployments (how many nodes, hypervisor etc.) so we'd need a new block on how you are

Re: [Openstack] Fwd: [nova] [rfc] drop XML from v3 API entirely

2014-01-15 Thread Tim Bell
It's great to be having the discussion since we need to find what can be simplified and what is currently needed. At one time, we had discussed some form of opt-in stats monitoring of production deployments (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo/+spec/opt-in-stats-tracking). While there is no

Re: [Openstack] [Keystone] performance issues after havana upgrade

2014-01-12 Thread Tim Bell
Can we tag this patch for backporting to Havana stable ? We're starting work for the CERN upgrade and this looks like a very useful patch to be part of the standard Havana offering. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Proulx [mailto:j...@jonproulx.com] > Sent: 12 January 2014 18:

Re: [Openstack] Using KVM for Large Infrastructures

2014-01-09 Thread Tim Bell
The CERN private cloud is now approaching 40,000 cores in 3 cells. There are another 2 OpenStack clouds at CERN with a further 10-20K cores each (all on KVM). We've got about 4,000 VMs (since some of our workload requires a large number of cores per instance). The last majority is running KVM b

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring OpenStack platform

2014-01-03 Thread Tim Bell
You could also have a look inside RDO (http://openstack.redhat.com). There are a set of Nagios probes inside the RPMs which run list commands against the servers to probe. $ ls /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/ check_nrpe cinder-listglance-indexnegate swift-list utils.sh check_ping e

Re: [Openstack] Monitoring OpenStack platform

2014-01-03 Thread Tim Bell
There is also some good advice in the logging and monitoring chapter of the OpenStack operations guide at http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-ops/content/logging_monitoring.html Tim From: Matt Kassawara [mailto:mkassaw...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 January 2014 18:57 To: Kaushal Shriyan Cc: open

Re: [Openstack] Bringing focus to the Operators and Users at the next summit

2013-12-27 Thread Tim Bell
Personally, I'd like to see two user feedback sessions: 1. Before the summit (around end Feb/start March) for the operators/users to work through the mechanisms for feedback, prepare the initial set of input for the Juno cycle and agree on the structure for the summit day. Clearly, thi

Re: [Openstack] Bringing focus to the Operators and Users at the next summit

2013-12-20 Thread Tim Bell
ack >> >> >> On Dec 17, 2013, at 3:24 AM, Tristan Goode wrote: >> >>> Perfect stated Tom. Thank you. >>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: Tom Fifield [mailto:t...@openstack.org] >>>> Sent: Tuesday, 17 December 201

Re: [Openstack] Bringing focus to the Operators and Users at the next summit

2013-12-16 Thread Tim Bell
there are needs for a user/operator advocate in design sessions, I think we can find candidates as we expand through the volunteers and ambassador programs. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Allamaraju, Subbu [mailto:su...@subbu.org] > Sent: 16 December 2013 20:19 > To: Tim Be

Re: [Openstack] Bringing focus to the Operators and Users at the next summit

2013-12-16 Thread Tim Bell
Specifying something as a bug needs to determine things like 'what component should this be addressed in' and describing the desired behaviour. Many of the comments from the survey describe the pain points, rather than the solutions. Upgrading is difficult, no mechanism to auto restart VMs on o

Re: [Openstack] Openstack--instance-boot-from-ceph-volume

2013-12-05 Thread Tim Bell
How about following http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/boot_from_volume.html ? Tim From: Karan Singh [mailto:ksi...@csc.fi] Sent: 05 December 2013 13:25 To: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: [Openstack] Openstack--instance-boot-from-ceph-volume Hello Stackers Wondering if someo

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Proposed removal of the PowerVM driver

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Bell
edule would seem appropriate. I would recommend an e-mail to the openstack operations list to confirm that there are no objections. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:thie...@openstack.org] > Sent: 22 November 2013 17:25 > To: openstack@lists.openstack.o

Re: [Openstack] Migrate instances/tenants between clouds

2013-10-25 Thread Tim Bell
with test cases. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Alexander Stellwag [mailto:openst...@stellwag.net] > Sent: 25 October 2013 11:04 > To: Tim Bell; openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Migrate instances/tenants between clouds > > Tim, > > On

Re: [Openstack] Migrate instances/tenants between clouds

2013-10-24 Thread Tim Bell
Have you tried - snapshot - glance download of the snapshot - glance upload of the snapshot to new instance - boot from snapshot The process we use at CERN is documented at http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/book/cern-cloud-infrastructure-user-guide/images/migrating-using-images This co

Re: [Openstack] [openstack][keystone] Using X.509 External Authentication with OpenStack Identity

2013-10-24 Thread Tim Bell
I think we also need a standard way to pass specify the X.509 certificate location and the authentication method to be using (X.509, Kerberos, etc.) Do we have a slot at the summit for this discussion ? It would be good to finalise the necessary parts so we can help out with the implementation.

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Making the Hong Kong Summit as inclusive as possible

2013-10-22 Thread Tim Bell
rowded the conferences can be, it can be difficult to find the right people to talk to on short notice. The risk is that the lack of availability leads to lack of follow up. Tim From: Lauren Sell [mailto:lau...@openstack.org] Sent: 22 October 2013 00:35 To: Anne Gentle Cc: Tim Bell; David Mortma

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Making the Hong Kong Summit as inclusive as possible

2013-10-21 Thread Tim Bell
Lauren, Great Can the 'Report Harrassment' section have an explicit e-mail address such as reportharassm...@opentack.org. It would be useful to keep the barrier for reporting problems low as some people may not know how to find a member of the foundati

Re: [Openstack] Cells use cases

2013-10-03 Thread Tim Bell
od to have a list of what is expected not to work in Havana (so that we don't accidentally think something is not working yet but it is just a configuration issue). Tim From: Chris Behrens [mailto:cbehr...@codestud.com] Sent: 03 October 2013 20:24 To: Tim Bell Cc: Chris Behrens; Dmitry Ukov;

Re: [Openstack] Cells use cases

2013-10-03 Thread Tim Bell
nces for those who are able to make it. Tim From: Joshua Harlow [mailto:harlo...@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: 03 October 2013 20:32 To: Subbu Allamaraju; Tim Bell Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Openstack] Cells use cases Hi Tim, I'd also like to know what happens above 1000 hype

Re: [Openstack] Cells use cases

2013-10-03 Thread Tim Bell
At CERN, we're running cells for scalability. When you go over 1000 hypervisors or so, the general recommendation is to be in a cells configuration. Cells are quite complex and the full functionality is not there yet so some parts will need to wait for Havana. Tim From: Dmitry Ukov [mailto:du

Re: [Openstack] Implementing DB as a Service

2013-09-29 Thread Tim Bell
Have a look at the OpenStack Trove project. It implements database-as-a-service. Tim From: Ali Nazemian [mailto:alinazem...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 September 2013 17:02 To: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: [Openstack] Implementing DB as a Service Hi, I am looking for a way to run

Re: [Openstack] User Survey / Reminder

2013-09-25 Thread Tim Bell
I am in favour of carry forward of data. Asking people to fill out the same data as last time is also not good. I still work in the same area and have the same geographical location. I welcome not having to put that in again. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Gabriel Hurley [mailto:gab

Re: [Openstack] openstack meta-data

2013-09-15 Thread Tim Bell
arelli [mailto:cecca...@fnal.gov] > Sent: 14 September 2013 20:40 > To: Tim Bell > Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] openstack meta-data > > Hello, > thanks for the help! I hadn't seen the command in the documentation, this can > be helpful. >

Re: [Openstack] openstack meta-data

2013-09-14 Thread Tim Bell
You can update the metadata associated with an instance using the 'nova meta' command. However, this only updates the metadata (i.e. key value pairs) rather than the other attributes. Changing the server name would not alter the hostname of the VM, it would only alter the description in Nova.

Re: [Openstack] Fwd: Making the Hong Kong Summit as inclusive as possible

2013-09-11 Thread Tim Bell
I like the pycon code of conduct but I also want to be sure that communication outside of the summit is also covered (from mailing lists, user groups, etc). Pycon clearly has a limited scope but as a foundation and community, we are more than a single event. I feel that Incorporating the best

Re: [Openstack] Openstack login via SimpleSamlPHP (LDAP, OAuth, OpenID, etc..)

2013-08-07 Thread Tim Bell
: Joe Savak Cc: Miller, Mark M (EB SW Cloud - R&D - Corvallis); openstack@lists.openstack.org; Rok Kralj; Tim Bell; Dolph Mathews Subject: Re: [Openstack] Openstack login via SimpleSamlPHP (LDAP, OAuth, OpenID, etc..) Joe, Tim, I am seeing a strong interest in keystone federated identity sup

Re: [Openstack] Openstack login via SimpleSamlPHP (LDAP, OAuth, OpenID, etc..)

2013-08-06 Thread Tim Bell
I would be very interested in a native SAML for single sign on implementation with Horizon login. This would mean Python rather than PHP along with potentially (I think) creating a situation where a user can use the Web GUI through single sign on but not able to use CLI. Depending on the u