Re: [openstack-dev] tenant or project

2013-11-23 Thread Caitlin Bestler
I have seen several people request that their users be members of two "projects" and that they be allow to publish objects that are "Shared" by multiple "projects". For some reason the people who request these complex data constructions always prefer to call the enclosing entity a "project". I

Re: [openstack-dev] tenant or project

2013-11-23 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On November 23, 2013 4:09:49 AM Christopher Yeoh wrote: Hi, So in the past we've used both tenant and project to refer to the same thing and I think its been a source of confusion for people new to OpenStack. In the Nova code we use both, but at least for the API we've been trying to consiste

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Does Nova really need an SQL database?

2013-11-19 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 11/18/2013 11:35 AM, Mike Spreitzer wrote: There were some concerns expressed at the summit about scheduler scalability in Nova, and a little recollection of Boris' proposal to keep the needed state in memory. I also heard one guy say that he thinks Nova does not really need a general SQL dat

Re: [openstack-dev] Split of the openstack-dev list

2013-11-14 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 11/14/2013 5:12 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Hi everyone, I think that we have recently reached critical mass for the openstack-dev mailing-list, with 2267 messages posted in October, and November well on its way to pass 2000 again. Some of those are just off-topic (and I've been regularly fight

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-12 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 11/12/2013 10:42 AM, John Griffith wrote: Sorry, but I'm not seeing where you're going with this in relation to the question being asked? The question is how to deal with creating a new bootable volume from nova boot command and be able to tell whether it's timed out, or errored while waiti

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-12 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 11/12/2013 8:09 AM, John Griffith wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Solly Ross wrote: I'd like to get some sort of consensus on this before I start working on it. Now that people are back from Summit, what would you propose? Best Regards, Solly Ross - Original Message - Fro

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-04 Thread Caitlin Bestler
Replication of snapshots is one solution to this. You create a Cinder Volume once. snapshot it. Then replicate to the hosts that need it (this is the piece currently missing). Then you clone there. I will be giving an in an hour in conference session on this and other uses of snapshots in the las

Re: [openstack-dev] Towards OpenStack Disaster Recovery

2013-10-21 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 10/21/2013 2:34 AM, Avishay Traeger wrote: Hi all, We (IBM and Red Hat) have begun discussions on enabling Disaster Recovery (DR) in OpenStack. We have created a wiki page with our initial thoughts: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DisasterRecovery We encourage others to contribute to this wi

Re: [openstack-dev] [novaclient]should administrator can see all servers of all tenants by default?

2013-10-14 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 10/14/2013 8:37 AM, Ben Nemec wrote: I agree that this needs to be fixed. It's very counterintuitive, if nothing else (which is also my argument against requiring all-tenants for admin users in the first place). The only question for me is whether to fix it in novaclient or in Nova itself.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] HOT Software orchestration proposal for workflows

2013-10-11 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 10/9/2013 12:55 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote: Your example sounds a lot like what taskflow is build for doing. https://github.com/stackforge/taskflow/blob/master/taskflow/examples/calculate_in_parallel.py is a decent example. In that one, tasks are created and input/output dependencies are speci

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] HOT Software orchestration proposal for workflows

2013-10-09 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 10/9/2013 12:55 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote: Your example sounds a lot like what taskflow is build for doing. I'm not that familiar with Heat, so I wanted to bounce this off of you before doing a public foot-in-mouth on the mailing list. Is the real issue here the difference between *building*

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-04 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 10/4/2013 7:33 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: On 10/04/2013 04:11 AM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > > On Oct 3, 2013 1:45 PM, "Chris Friesen" <mailto:chris.frie...@windriver.com>> wrote: > > > > On 10/03/2013 02:02 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > >>

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-04 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On Oct 3, 2013 1:45 PM, "Chris Friesen" wrote: > > On 10/03/2013 02:02 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: >> >> >> >> On October 3, 2013 12:44:50 PM Chris Friesen >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I was wondering if there is any interest in a

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC: adding "on_shared_storage" field to instance

2013-10-03 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On October 3, 2013 12:44:50 PM Chris Friesen wrote: I was wondering if there is any interest in adding an "on_shared_storage" field to the Instance class. This would be set once at instance creation time and we would then be able to avoid having the admin manually pass it in for the vari

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] key management and Cinder volume encryption

2013-09-04 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On September 4, 2013 12:28:19 PM "Coffman, Joel M." wrote: The following change provides a key manager implementation that reads a static key from the project's configuration: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/45103/ This key manager implementation naturally does not provide the same confiden

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for Raksha, a Data Protection As a Service project

2013-08-30 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 8/30/2013 12:49 PM, Murali Balcha wrote: Hi Caitlin, Did you get a chance to look at the wiki? It describes the raksha functionality in detail. > It includes more than volume backup. It includes vm images, all > volumes and network configurations associated with vms and it > supports increme

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for Raksha, a Data Protection As a Service project

2013-08-30 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 8/29/2013 5:36 PM, Murali Balcha wrote: Hi Kat, Consider the following use cases that Raksha will addresses. I will discuss from simple to complex use case and then address your specific questions with inline comments. 1.VM1 that is created on the local file system with a cinder volume

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for Raksha, a Data Protection As a Service project

2013-08-29 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 8/28/2013 3:12 PM, Murali Balcha wrote: Hello Stackers, We would like to introduce a new project Raksha, a Data Protection As a Service (DPaaS) for OpenStack Cloud. Raksha’s primary goal is to provide a comprehensive Data Protection for OpenStack by leveraging Nova, Swift, Glance and Cinder.

Re: [openstack-dev] Extension to volume creation (filesystem and label)

2013-08-14 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 8/13/2013 11:42 PM, Greg Poirier wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Caitlin Bestler mailto:caitlin.best...@nexenta.com>> wrote: I'm not following something here. What is the point at dictating a specific FS format when the compute node will be the one apply

Re: [openstack-dev] Extension to volume creation (filesystem and label)

2013-08-13 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 8/12/2013 9:37 AM, Greg Poirier wrote: Oh, we don't want to get super fancy with it. We would probably only support one filesystem type and not partitions. E.g. You request a 120GB volume and you get a 120GB Ext4 FS mountable by label. I'm not following something here. What is the point