Open Stack

XenServer as a hypervisor does not have all the features we are looking
for, for instance, live migration.

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Thomas Vachon
Principal Operations Architect
*session M*
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vachon at sessionm.com



On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:10 AM, John Garbutt <John.Garbutt at citrix.com>wrote:

> Thomas, any reason you had issues using XenServer? I don’t understand your
> commend about HA networking? The XenAPI driver supports OpenStack’s HA
> networking. I would like to understand what we more you would need to start
> using XenServer with OpenStack.****
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> The Dell connector should work with OpenSource version of XenServer,
> called XCP. Although the free edition of XenServer should do all you need.
> ****
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> You can use the Dell storage as part of the XenServer storage manager
> integration in nova-volume.  Renuka is adding the support into Cinder soon,
> which is more likely to meet your needs, so she should be able to help you.
> It might be good to have a real user work with her to get the feature
> working how you want it.****
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> I hope that helps,****
>
> John****
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> *From:* Rob_Hirschfeld at Dell.com [mailto:Rob_Hirschfeld at Dell.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, July 29, 2012 5:13 AM
> *To:* openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] Using a SAN for nova-volume & KVM****
>
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> Lorin,****
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> Thanks for forwarding.  I am the right contact for this.****
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> Yes – there is something we can do to help with this.  I can’t do it on
> the list at this time so I’m contacting Jon & Thomas directly to continue
> the conversation.  ****
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> If other people are interested in this capability, please let me know.****
>
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>
> Rob Hirschfeld****
>
> Rob_Hirschfeld at Dell.com****
>
> @zehicle****
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> *From:* Lorin Hochstein [mailto:lorin at nimbisservices.com]
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 28, 2012 10:18 PM
> *To:* Jonathan Proulx
> *Cc:* Thomas Vachon; OpenStack Operators; Hirschfeld, Rob; Stephen Spector
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] Using a SAN for nova-volume & KVM****
>
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> Jon:****
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> There are several people from Dell that are active in the OpenStack
> community, they're probably good points of contact to engage with Dell on
> this issue. Two names I know of offhand are:****
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> - Stephen Spector****
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> - Rob Hirschfeld****
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> Take care,****
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> Lorin****
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> --****
>
> Lorin Hochstein****
>
> Lead Architect - Cloud Services****
>
> Nimbis Services, Inc.****
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> www.nimbisservices.com****
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> On Jul 28, 2012, at 9:44 PM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:***
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> It does look like nova/volume/san.py could be extended to use the
> EqlCliExec.py utility from the Equallogic SDK, unfortunately all the
> pieces of the SDK are full of this copyright:
>
> Copyright (C) 2009 by Dell, Inc.
>
> All rights reserved.  This software may not be copied, disclosed,
> transferred, or used except in accordance with a license granted
> by Dell, Inc.  This software embodies proprietary information
> and trade secrets of Dell, Inc
>
> So unless we can talk Dell into being more sane with licensing, full
> and proper integration with OpenStack is unlikely.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Hopefully someone has a better answer for you as I'm still relatively
> new to OpenStack myself, but I looked into this a little while ago
> because I too have an Equalogic SAN and KVM hypervisors.  The
> Equalogic connector in that equation is provided by XenServer not
> OpenStack (in fact I think but am less sure that it isn't even part of
> the opensource xen).
>
> Since I'm running a research system I can take some risks and have
> decided to go this Ceph for my storage needs, if I were in your HA
> needing shoes I'd look at how much coding was required to hook
> Equalogic's API (which exists but I haven't looked at in years) into
> the nova-volume service, you could be someone's hero, but I don't
> think there's any current work toward this.
>
> I'd be happy to be told I'm wrong about that...
>
> -Jon
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Thomas Vachon <vachon at sessionm.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are architecting our system for KVM (as it is the best hypervisor for
> your money for HA networking) and a SAN for HA nova-volumes.  The only
> reference to being able to use a SAN is with XenServer as the hypervisor.
>  I
> have no problem giving a server permission to create luns (or pre-creating
> them if I have to) for now.  I want to make sure I can point all the stuff
> to the SAN instead of doing some half-hearted attempt by using a box as a
> proxy.
>
> Our san is an EQL so iSCSI is easy.  Also, we run our "san" net on a
> separate 10Gbe set of interfaces (all the servers have connectivity into
> the
> SAN layer).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Thomas Vachon
> Principal Operations Architect
> session M
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