Hi Rafael,

How do you do ACS local storage and VM migration to other hypervisor  ?
Can you share with me

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 3:56 PM Rafael del Valle <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Cristian,
>
> In my case I am moving from OpenNebula to ACS.
>
> ACS seems like a good compromise between being lightweight and capable.
>
> I am happy with Local Storage, it is true that it is a mount-point but I
> mount a LVM volume there, which can be a raid, multiple drives, etc.
>
> ACS does a good job with Local Storage VM migration (even if not live
> migration).
>
> For me local storage is best and then the fail tolerance can be provided
> at a higher level (k8s?, etc)
>
> But my use case is not public cloud, but rather in-house corporate private
> cloud.
>
>
> Rafael
>
> On Fri, 2020-09-18 09:22 AM, Hean Seng <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am  using 4.14 , and indeed , it need create offering and the tag to
> > local storage .
> >
> >  I am now using SolusVM for VPS and Virtualizor ,  Planning to use
> > Cloudstack or OpenStack,  Openstack has too many issue for setting up,
> and
> > i forsee it may create a lot of maintenance  in future . Thus try out
> > Cloudstack,  and cloudstack is clean.
> >
> > However, i feels that Cloudstack has very less support for Storage,  and
> > most of newly storage is not support, for example linbit  ,   the only
> that
> > best NFS, but sadly say NFS is not really suitable for public cloud where
> > one  Compute Host need to create a lot of VM. Otherwise it will kill the
> > NFS server with high load.
> >
> > I am trying share mount point, but it require OCFS2 clustering
> filesystem,
> > and ocfs2 now seems only suppport Oracle LInux,  but not Redhat/Centos ,
> > Ubuntu Version has bug.
> >
> > Otherwise will be bare ISCSI , or CEPH,   CEPH is good, but seems need a
> > lot of server in order to get it up running in productions ,  at least
> 3osd
> > , and 3 mon.
> >
> > Thus now I am looking back to Local Storage with proper raid setup . But
> > now issue for local storage is it limited to fix folder , and not LVM
> block
> > storage .
> >
> > The CLVM in Cloudstack is not test yet and not sure if can work .
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 3:11 PM Rafael del Valle "
> target="_blank"><[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Hean, Cristian,
> > >
> > > Please also check with version of ACS you use.
> > >
> > > In ACS 4.14 I have to create a Compute Offering and Network Offering
> with
> > > Local Storage Enabled.
> > >
> > > I think there is no longer a zone setting for user VMs, but there is
> for
> > > SystemVMs.
> > >
> > > Here are some settings I am using :
> > >
> > >
> > >     # Global Offerings
> > >
> > >     - name: Create a 10GB disk offering with local storage
> > >       cs_disk_offering:
> > >         name: ls-ssd-10gb
> > >         display_text: 10GB SSD LS
> > >         disk_size: 10
> > >         storage_type: local
> > >
> > >     - name: Create a non-volatile compute service offering with local
> > > storage
> > >       cs_service_offering:
> > >         name: micro-ssd
> > >         display_text: Micro LS SSD 512mb 1cpu 500mhz
> > >         cpu_number: 1
> > >         cpu_speed: 500
> > >         memory: 512
> > >         storage_type: local
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     - name: Allow SystemVMs to use local storage on zone 1
> > >       cs_configuration:
> > >         name: system.vm.use.local.storage
> > >         zone: z1
> > >         value: "true"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That is all that is required in 4.14.
> > >
> > > If you use KVM local storage will be under /var/lib/libvirt.... you
> might
> > > need to setup somthing there.
> > >
> > > Rafael
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2020-09-18 06:50 AM, Pearl d'Silva " target="_blank"><
> [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi Hean,
> > > >
> > > > Either when creating a zone, in the zone creation wizard, while
> adding
> > > the zone details, you must enable usage of local storage for user VM
> and /
> > > or SystemVMs, so as to use local store as a primary storage; or if the
> zone
> > > is already created, you may edit the zone configuration, and enable
> local
> > > store usage for user VMs. For usage of local store for System VMs(after
> > > zone deployment) there is a global setting namely,
> > > "system.vm.use.local.storage", changing which will require a management
> > > server restart. Post these changes, on checking the Primary Storage
> tab on
> > > the UI, you will notice new pools created on each host.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Pearl
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: Hean Seng " target="_blank">" target="_blank"><
> [email protected]>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 11:23 PM
> > > > To: [email protected] " target="_blank"><
> > > " target="_blank">[email protected]>
> > > > Subject: Adding Local Storage to Primary Storage
> > > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > Anybody know to add local storage to Primary Storage.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Hean Seng
> > > >
> > > > [email protected]
> > > > http://www.shapeblue.com
> > > > 3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
> > > > @shapeblue
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Hean Seng
> >



-- 
Regards,
Hean Seng

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