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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack support
Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack support
The OpenStack community is considering dropping support for Hyper-V
By Nancy Gohring
January 31, 2012 04:53 PM ETAdd a comment
IDG News Service - Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code -- which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained -- from the stack.
"Microsoft is committed to working with the community to resolve the current issues with Hyper-V and OpenStack," Microsoft said in a statement.
That comment followed a suggestion on an OpenStack news group by Thierry Carrez, a developer handling release management for OpenStack, that the code supporting Hyper-V be removed from the version of OpenStack Compute currently being developed. In a newsgroup item titled "Essex dead wood cutting," he included Hyper-V among just two items that could be removed from Essex, the version of OpenStack Compute scheduled for release in the second quarter. He called the Hyper-V code "known broken and unmaintained."
If it is removed, few people are likely to miss it. "I don't know of any production deployment of it. I don't know of any active development deployment of it," said Joshua McKenty, CEO of Piston Cloud Computing. McKenty was the technical architect of NASA's Nebula cloud platform, which spun off into OpenStack, and is very involved in the OpenStack community.
He recalled that Microsoft hired a contractor company to do the integration work "but they never really finished," he said.
The project may have fizzled for a couple of simple reasons, he said. For instance, the people at Microsoft who championed the idea may have moved into a different group at the company and no one else picked it up.
However, Microsoft may have also decided instead to focus on its own Azure platform for use in public and private cloud deployments, he said.
Microsoft did not answer other questions about its interest and experiences with adding Hyper-V support to OpenStack.
If Microsoft wants to sell server software to cloud service providers using OpenStack, the lack of interest in its hypervisor might be a concern, one analyst said. "What this says more than anything is that people aren't building clouds on Windows as an underlying architecture," said James Staten, an analyst with Forrester Research.
Because Hyper-V is included with the Windows Enterprise server license, a lack of interest in Hyper-V in the OpenStack community probably means cloud service providers aren't using Windows server in their OpenStack deployments.
That's not particularly surprising, Staten said. "If you're building using an open community based solution, you'll start with things that carry no license at all," he said.
However, he said that many individual cloud service providers are beginning to build two offerings: one uses primarily open source software. The second is built on commercial products that are used in enterprises and thus might be more appealing to enterprise customers. Currently, VMware has the bulk of the market share for the cloud services aimed at enterprises, he said.
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One of the things we have found about running clouds at scale is the need for automation. To that end we often conduct training events called Build a Cloud Dayswith our open source partners. We like PuppetLabs puppet for automating configuration of CloudStack as well as Zenoss for automating the discover of cloud infrastructure to bring them under monitoring.
One of the best ways to get up to speed on using puppet is to attend a Puppet Camp. The next one will be hosted inAtlanta on February 3rd.
"Puppet Camp is a community oriented gathering of Puppet users and developers. You’ll have the opportunity to network with a diverse group of Puppet users, benefit from insightful lectures delivered by prominent community members, and be able to share experiences and discuss potential implementations of Puppet during our attendee generated breakout sessions."
If you can't attend this session there are many other Puppet Camps being held worldwide listed on the PuppetLabs website.
Using Microsoft Excel to analyze CloudStack usage records
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A few months back during Cloud Expo, I had a chance to talk with Alex Bederov from Nokia and he showed me a spreadsheet that Nokia was using to analyze the usage reports from CloudStack. I thought this was fascinating, particularly from a private cloud perspective. While there are products like Amysta or CloudPortal that handle taking the usage records and billing against them, private clouds typically don't need that same level of billing services. This is a wonderful middle ground. In the interim Alex has written up his way of interacting with CloudStack usage database - and we've now published it as a KB article
http://docs.cloud.com/Knowledge_Base/Using_Microsoft_Excel_to_analyze_CloudStack_usage_records
Alex was quite nice and even provided a sample spreadsheet to look at, and it's linked at the bottom of the KB article.
Hopefully this will benefit a lot of folks just looking to do some basic reporting against the usage database.
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Beta release of CloudStack Acton (3.0) available - let the testing begin #citrix #cloudstack
Beta release of CloudStack Acton (3.0) available - let the testing begin
CloudStack, which has been in development since 2008, and provides the IaaS platform for a number of public clouds and some of the largest private clouds currently in existence, is on the cusp of another major release. You've no doubt seen the interesting design documentation for new features, and perhaps have watched some of the videos describing new network functionality or the new UI. Well we are drawing close to our third major release, and it's packed with a lot of exciting new features, including features written by the community.
You can see a few of the many features that are included in this upcoming release here:
* Object Storage integration for Secondary Storage
* Network as a Service
* XenServer 6.0 Support
* Projects (allowing users to collaborate and share resources across accounts)
* NetScaler integration
* Fine-grained resource reservation limits
* Usability/UI enhancements
* Security enhancements
* LDAP/AD Authentication
* Clustered LVM support
That said, we need help, with the massive UI changes and the addition of significant amount of features, we need to make sure it all works, and while we have folks dedicated to performing QA, it's always been my experience that the folks who are actually using CloudStack in the real world find lots of bugs, and the time to find those bugs is now, not after release.
What to test? Of course you should test the things that are important in your environment, but we'd like some special focus on these areas, and we've tried to write up some initial test plans for them, but feel free to get an account on the wiki and add to these:
http://docs.cloud.com/CloudStack_Documentation/Design_Documents/UI_Tests
http://docs.cloud.com/CloudStack_Documentation/Design_Documents/Hypervisor_Tests
- KVM on RHEL, CentOS, SL 6.{1,2}
- KVM on Ubuntu 10.04
- KVM on Fedora 16
- XCP 1.1 hypervisor
- Projects
- Clustered LVM support
- NetScaler integration (this requires NS hardware or virtual appliances)
- XS6 as hypervisor
- LDAP
- Swift integration
Where to get the beta?
The binary bits are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloudstack/files/Pre-release%20software/Acton_beta_jan3/
How/where to file bugs?
You can file bugs at http://bugs.cloud.com - you may also want to check out the KB article on filing bugs to see what specific information you need to include: http://docs.cloud.com/Knowledge_Base/Filing_bugs
Some notes on upgrading.
Upgrading from previous versions of CloudStack currently isnt supported (and just plain doesn't work) and this is by design, it's easier to focus on upgrade issues once there are no longer any DB changes, a future beta release will have support for upgrading from previous version of CloudStack.
Upgrading to a later CloudStack beta release or Acton GA is not supported, and you should assume that it won't work.
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