Hi, All:
I am configuring my first xenserver 6.2 hypervisor for my CS 4.3.0 server.
But I am not really sure how much configuration do I need to do manually on the
xen server.
Here is what I have done:
My xen server has 8 physical NICs, eth0 to eth7.
I have created 4 bonds: bond3(eth0, eth1), bond0 (eth2,eth3), bond1 (eth4,
eth5), and bond2 (eth6, eth7).
On top of these bonds, I have created 4 networks: xapi0 <- bond0, xapi1 <-
bond1, xapi2 <- bond2, and xapi3 <- bond3
I am using advanced networking with shared networks, so I set network
name-labels to separate various traffics: xapi3 (mgmt), xapi0 (guest-vlan16),
xapi2 (storage, vlan4); xapi1 is not used for now.
However, once I added zone/pod/cluster/host/storages to my CS server, and
launched CPVM and SSVM, I have following problems: CPVM is running, but I
can’t access console for either VM; SSVM is running, but default CentOS
template Ready attribute is NO, and Status attribute is blank, Size attribute
for both Centos and ssvm templates are also blank.
On the xen hypervisor, I noticed that CS created additional networks:
# xe network-param-list uuid=b9796260-e7c8-ce85-e32a-11af8e35b09d
uuid ( RO) : b9796260-e7c8-ce85-e32a-11af8e35b09d
name-label ( RW): cloud_link_local_network
name-description ( RW): link local network used by system vms
VIF-uuids (SRO): acd2e1ca-53c5-6f9e-4fb5-8f06389d95e0
PIF-uuids (SRO):
MTU ( RW): 1500
bridge ( RO): xapi4
other-config (MRW): ip_end: 169.254.255.254; ip_begin: 169.254.0.1;
netmask: 255.255.0.0
blobs ( RO):
tags (SRW):
default-locking-mode ( RW): unlocked
# xe network-param-list uuid=2d3753f6-01b9-5abd-4a21-ade3505e0bc4
uuid ( RO) : 2d3753f6-01b9-5abd-4a21-ade3505e0bc4
name-label ( RW): VLAN-63db81d1-f67d-0439-366b-9c784391dfd2-16
name-description ( RW):
VIF-uuids (SRO):
PIF-uuids (SRO):
MTU ( RW): 1500
bridge ( RO): xapi5
other-config (MRW):
blobs ( RO):
tags (SRW): CsCreateTime-1411781381372-1322522147
default-locking-mode ( RW): unlocked
# xe network-param-list uuid=ae8b875c-d2dc-3318-0d9f-6c9172c806f8
uuid ( RO) : ae8b875c-d2dc-3318-0d9f-6c9172c806f8
name-label ( RW): VLAN-55399bb8-b42d-1d8b-8a53-1fcb4bdfe10a-4
name-description ( RW):
VIF-uuids (SRO):
PIF-uuids (SRO):
MTU ( RW): 1500
bridge ( RO): xapi6
other-config (MRW):
blobs ( RO):
tags (SRW): CsCreateTime-1411781529441-1287476031
default-locking-mode ( RW): unlocked
So my questions are:
1. Should I create xapi0-xapi3 manually or not ?
2. Which network carries storage traffic, xapi2 (manually created) or xapi6
(CS created)?
3. Which network carries guest traffic for vlan16, xapi0 (manually created) or
xapi5 (CS created)
4. If CS created networks (xapi5, xapi6), how come they are not associated
with any PIFs ?
Any insights on what parts should I manually do on the xen hypervisor, and what
parts are taking care of by CS (automagically) are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Yiping
