Re: Unable to create a deployment for VM

[ful crap <fu...@gmail.com>]

Hi there :-)

I want to bring up the shapeBlue tutorial (
https://www.shapeblue.com/virtualbox-test-env/ ) a last time
Even if this tutorial is a bit old, I get it working flawlessly on my
laptop with Apache Cloudstack 4.11.1.0
That's pretty neat to have a sandbox environment for novice like me, to
take a good start on a sophisticated environment like Cloudstack
I chose XenServer because my company has a great focus on this hypervisor
to get things virtualized.
And the only cheap trick regarding this tutorial was to stick to an old
XenServer version (6.5) to get Paravirtualization (PV) working for SystemVMs
That's really cool to have an advanced zone up and running on a cheap but
powerful enough CPU like my i7-8750H (hexacore) with 8GB of RAM

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Some tricks aside, the shapeblue tutorial is still very relevant and
up-to-date, that's amazing ! and I feel it is because the CS architecture
from its ground is firm and rock-solid
I actually don't know the shortcomings (beside security vulnerability) to
run an old version of Xen but truth be told, it rocks!

Happy cloud'in ! I am very glad to join an community like yours ;-)

Feel free to ask me if you want some help for a virtualbox (5.2.18)
Cloudstack-in-a-Box install

Yours


Le jeu. 25 oct. 2018 à 01:13, Andrija Panic <an...@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> that is the famous setup article from one of CloudStack conferences, if I'm
> not mistaken - but since things have changed "a bit" during last 4 years
> (both cloudstack and the XenServer versions), that means that probably some
> steps might be missing (just a guess)
>
> Anyway, since system VM is not starting at all - I would suggest to take a
> look into systemVM template - which you should have preseeded during the
> installation process with  the "*cloud-install-sys-tmplt*" script - check
> template state in GUI if it says "OK" under "Ready" section (go to specific
> template, click on Zones, and there you will read it). Alternatively, make
> sure that HOST is in connected/up/routing state  - can be observer from
> Infrastructure-->Hosts.
>
> Otherwise, is systemVM template is OK, than the HOST (xenserver) should be
> able to mount Secondary Storage (your emails says it works fine...) and
> start the VM from the template (later patch systemVM etc etc...)
>
> I would also suggest perhaps trying a more up to date tutorial, from the
> original documentation for 4.11 release (http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org
> )
> and check your steps with XenServer.
>
> Alternatively, if you are willing to play with KVM, there is also a very
> Quick Installation Guide for CenOS6 (outdated, being updated as we speak) -
> while updated version (not final but with some comments) can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/blob/cae56e460902b7b4efde426b9cc88e512a1c9076/source/quickinstallationguide/qig.rst
>
>
> If nothing helps, please share management.log file content (pastebean or
> similar) so we can check.
> I'm personally not aware of specific agent logs on XenServer, but I assume
> there are some logs from XenServer itself which you could collect as well.
>
> Cheers
> Andrija
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 00:41, fulc927 <fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > First my environment is built following this tutorial
> > https://www.shapeblue.com/virtualbox-test-env/
> >
> > I am trying to setup properly Cloudstack as a proof-of-concept and
> > eventually adopting it in more sophisticated configuration
> >
> > I am using cloudstack-management-4.11 and Citrix XenServer Host 7.5.0
> >
> > I successfully create a zone and a primary storage, bad things are
> > coming next, once SystemVMs have to boot.
> >
> > System VMs nevers successfully boot, they are stuck in an endless loop
> > cycle (start-stop-start…)
> >
> > logs attached to this email report:
> >
> >  > Deploy avoids pods: null, clusters: null, hosts: null
> >  > Unable to create a deployment for VM
> >
> > My config has enough ressources to run the management server and the xen
> > one in an virtualyzed environment
> >
> > I highly suspect a network misconfiguration, everything should be OK
> > since i replicate the config from shapeblue:
> >
> > PRI STORAGE 10.10.100.11
> >
> > SECONDARY STORAGE 10.10.101.11
> >
> > MGMT TRAFFIC SERVER 192.168.56.11
> >
> > XEN 192.168.56.101
> >
> > POD SETTINGS 192.168.56.1 (21 - 30)
> >
> > PUBLIC TRAFFIC 172.30.0.(21 - 30 )
> >
> > Maybe something is wrong on the MGMT network ? but since i can ping IPs
> > properly I suspect something more tricky.
> >
> > If someone could help me giving a look faulty parameters, I can'f figure
> > out why my cluster and pod load as null value and make the next
> > processes messy
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Xen hypervisor seems good regarding
> > storage:10.10.100.11:/exports/primary/ on
> > /run/sr-mount/3473326c-6813-97dc-fd85-9f221d59892f type nfs
> >
> >
> (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,acdirmin=0,acdirmax=0,soft,proto=tcp,timeo=100,retrans=12,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.10.100.11,mountvers=3,mountport=892,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=10.10.100.11)
> > 10.10.101.11:/exports/secondary on
> > /var/cloud_mount/fb486192-aa16-30d2-9278-c5704f273389 type nfs4
> >
> >
> (rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,soft,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=133,retrans=1,sec=sys,clientaddr=10.10.101.101,local_lock=none,addr=10.10.101.11)
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Andrija Panić
>