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Jay, yes, cfn-tools does not support Windows at this moment, and there are
may be issues related to autoscaling based on Ceilometer.


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Jay Lau <jay.lau.513 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Alexander for the detail explanation, really very helpful!
>
> What I meant for a windows cluster is actually a windows application, such
> as a WebSphere cluster or a hadoop windows cluster.
>
> Seems I can use Cloudbase Init to do the post-deploy actions on windows,
> but I cannot do some scale up or scale down for this cluster as currently
> there is no cfn-tools for windows, is it correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> 2014-02-20 18:24 GMT+08:00 Alexander Tivelkov <ativelkov at mirantis.com>:
>
> Hi Jay,
>>
>> Windows support in Heat is being developed, but is not complete yet,
>> afaik. You may already use Cloudbase Init to do the post-deploy actions on
>> windows - check [1] for the details.
>>
>> Meanwhile, running a windows cluster is a much more complicated task then
>> just deploying a number of windows instances (if I understand you correctly
>> and you speak about Microsoft Failover Cluster, see [2]): to build it in
>> the cloud you will have to execute quite a complex workflow after the nodes
>> are actually deployed, which is not possible with Heat (at least for now).
>>
>> Murano project ([3]) does this on top of Heat, as it was initially
>> designed as Windows Data Center as a Service, so I suggest you too take a
>> look at it. You may also check this video ([4]) which demonstrates how
>> Murano is used to deploy a failover cluster of Windows 2012 with a
>> clustered MS SQL server on top of it.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.cloudbase.it/heat-windows
>> [2] http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831579
>> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/Murano
>> [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_CmrZfKy18
>>
>>  --
>> Regards,
>> Alexander Tivelkov
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jay Lau <jay.lau.513 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does HEAT support provisioning windows cluster?  If so, can I also use
>>> user-data to do some post install work for windows instance? Is there any
>>> example template for this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
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> Jay
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