Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-ansible] How to manage system upgrades ?

2018-08-05 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le lundi 30 juillet, Matt Riedemann écrivit : > On 7/27/2018 3:34 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > - for compute nodes : disable compute node and live-evacuate instances... > > To be clear, what do you mean exactly by "live-evacuate"? I assume you mean > live migrati

[Openstack-operators] [openstack-ansible] How to manage system upgrades ?

2018-07-27 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Hello ! Would be great to have a playbook to upgrade system parts of an OpenStack Cloud ! With OpenStack Ansible : LXC containers and hosts. It would be awesome to do a controlled rolling reboot of hosts when needed... Different conditions to check : - for controllers : check galera status.

Re: [Openstack-operators] [kolla] deprecation/removal of Debian images

2017-01-20 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 12/01/2017 à 12:52, Christian Berendt a écrit : Hello everybody. In the past we have talked about the removal of Debian images from Kolla. We have postponed the decision. At the moment, there is no visible interest in Debian Images. Therefore I will put the removal in the next week to the

Re: [Openstack-operators] How do you handle purge of database tables ?

2016-06-22 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 22/06/2016 à 23:26, Gilles Mocellin a écrit : Hello, While digging in nova's database, I found that many objects ar not really deleted, but instead just marked deleted. In fact, it's a general behavior in other projects (cinder, glance...). I understand that. It can be handy

[Openstack-operators] How do you handle purge of database tables ?

2016-06-22 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Hello, While digging in nova's database, I found that many objects ar not really deleted, but instead just marked deleted. In fact, it's a general behavior in other projects (cinder, glance...). I understand that. It can be handy. But, is there a way to handle regular purging of theses elemen

[Openstack-operators] [vmware] linked clone between glance and nova and/or cinder ?

2016-04-07 Thread gilles . mocellin
Hello stackers ! Instance creation from image needs a network transfer between glance and nova. If you use a cinder volume as a backend for your instance, the transfers is from glance to cinder. If you use Ceph as a storage backend for glance and cinder, instance from volume, it's possible t

[Openstack-operators] Best way of using snapshots

2016-03-23 Thread gilles . mocellin
Hello, I have 2 use cases, asked by my users : Be able to take a snapshot, and then : 1) be able to revert back an instance to the snapshot (conserving name and IP addresses) 2 create new instances from the snapshot The second one is the standard way of doing snapshots in OpenStack (Nova). F

Re: [Openstack-operators] Liberty with kvm and vmware

2016-02-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 03/02/2016 11:00, Ignazio Cassano a écrit : Dear all, we installed openstack liberty with kvm computing nodes and now we would add some vmware computing nodes with nsx. We know nsx multi hypervisor is not available yet, so we do not expect to have the same neutron controller for vmware and

Re: [Openstack-operators] Liberty Error on random pages "Error: Unable to retrieve volume limit information"

2016-01-23 Thread Gilles Mocellin
If you use Ubuntu + Ubuntu Cloud Archive, The Fix has been publish : https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/liberty/+bug/1516085 And you should revert to a standard configuration, no [keymgr] and encryption_auth_url, only standard keystone_authtoken with auth_uri Le 23/01/2016 06:37, Abel Lopez a

Re: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack components and configuration options

2016-01-13 Thread gilles . mocellin
Le 2016-01-13 10:41, Markus Zoeller a écrit : On 1/12/2016 3:29 AM, gilles.mocellin at nuagelibre.org wrote: > Hello, > [...] > > So, is there a documentation where I could see : > - nova-api, reads theses configuration options > - nova-compute... Markus Zoeller is working on cleaning this up i

Re: [Openstack-operators] How do you orchestrate external tools (private cloud) ?

2016-01-12 Thread gilles . mocellin
Le 2016-01-12 11:01, Christian Berendt a écrit : On 01/12/2016 10:47 AM, gilles.mocel...@nuagelibre.org wrote: But I did not find any example where Heat can do these sort of thing. I think Heat is the wrong tool to directly orchestrate external services. Have you tried Mistral? It is a work

[Openstack-operators] How do you orchestrate external tools (private cloud) ?

2016-01-12 Thread gilles . mocellin
Hello, I think it will be great to know how operators handle theses kind of orchestration : Add, remove instances and there properties in theses SI tools : - IPAM - CMDB - Monitoring - Backup I understand that this use case is certainly specific to private cloud, not public ones. I will be

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack components and configuration options

2016-01-12 Thread gilles . mocellin
Hello, I wonder if there is somewhere some precise information on which component a configuration option is for. I'll explain that. I want to separate components on several servers, a controller node, a network node, and compute nodes. Classic. I have nova-api one one node, nova-compute on a

Re: [Openstack-operators] Two regions and so two metadata servers sharing the same VLAN

2015-12-04 Thread gilles . mocellin
n Senior Linux Systems Engineer GoDaddy From: Kevin Benton Date: Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 5:29 PM To: Gilles Mocellin Cc: OpenStack Operators Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Two regions and so two metadata servers sharing the same VLAN Well if that's the case then the metada

Re: [Openstack-operators] Two regions and so two metadata servers sharing the same VLAN

2015-12-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Hum, I don't think so. Things like hostname must be only known by the neutron instance of one region... Le 03/12/2015 00:01, Kevin Benton a écrit : Are both metadata servers able to provide metadata for all instances of both sides? If so, why not disable isolated metadata on one of the sides s

[Openstack-operators] Two regions and so two metadata servers sharing the same VLAN

2015-11-26 Thread gilles . mocellin
Hello stackers ! Sorry, I also cross-posted that question here https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/85195/two-regions-and-so-two-metadata-servers-sharing-the-same-vlan/ But I think I can reach a wider audience here. So here's my problem. I'm facing an non-conventional situation. We're build

Re: [Openstack-operators] VMWARE HA-OpenStack Deployment

2015-11-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 30/10/2015 00:35, Anas Alnajjar a écrit : Thanks Donald No I try to build whole my open stack inside VMware esxi , and use VMware ha to provide HA for my open stack so all nodes will be VMs inside VMware , and if one host go down , VMware will relocate the VMs node to another host ,. . .

Re: [Openstack-operators] [VMware][neutron]nova-network

2015-10-05 Thread gilles . mocellin
es as with KVM. But without the linuxbridge agent, nova will just bind the instances to br-int (like the default config integration_bridge says) So, perhaps it is a collateral effect, not really wanted, but it's working ! On Oct 4, 2015 2:15 PM, "Gilles Mocellin" wrote:

Re: [Openstack-operators] [VMware][neutron]nova-network

2015-10-04 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 04/10/2015 03:29, Adam Lawson a écrit : So I have to ask, last I heard, you have to run nova network if you want to use OpenStack with VMware without an nsx license. Is this still the case or are there plans for changes in the near future that I missed where one can run neutron with VMware

Re: [Openstack-operators] Nova VMware driver don't know to deal with VMWare vSphere 5.5 API bugs

2015-08-12 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 2015-07-30 15:06, Jean-Daniel Bonnetot a écrit : Hi Ops, I deployed with OSAD and now I try to plug my compute node on vSphere with the nova vmware driver. After configuring the nova-compute to point on my vSphere, I start nova-compute and … BOOM :/ After some debugs, here what I found: 1. l

Re: [Openstack-operators] Sharing resources across OpenStack instances

2015-04-22 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 22/04/2015 15:32, Adam Young a écrit : Its been my understanding that many people are deploying small OpenStack instances as a way to share the Hardware owned by their particular team, group, or department. The Keystone instance represents ownership, and the identity of the users comes from

Re: [Openstack-operators] Import Windows 2008 Vmware VMDK Image to KVM Openstack.

2015-01-22 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 22/01/2015 13:38, Pedro Sousa a écrit : Hi all, does anybody have a working procedure/howto to convert Windows based VMDK images to KVM? I tried to convert using qemu-img convert command but I always get a blue screen when I launch the instance. Hello, The principal problem is that the