RE: FW: CS 4.1.0 - this will help a number of people who struggle with Advanced Networking

[Jessica Tomechak <Je...@citrix.com>]

There are 10 open Doc bugs against the KVM docs. Whoever does rewrite this chapter might want to consult those items for ideas.

If your issues aren't included there, please do file an additional bug with your valuable input!

https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20component%20in%20(doc%2C%20Doc)%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20%22Ready%20To%20Review%22)%20AND%20text%20~%20%22kvm%22

Jessica T.
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From: Nordgren, Bryce L -FS [bnordgren@fs.fed.us]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:22 PM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: RE: FW: CS 4.1.0 - this will help a number of people who struggle with Advanced Networking

+1

Working 1/2 time for about two weeks now, trying to install on a two-box test environment. Let me test something that works! I vote for describing a super simple test case:

+ two boxes
+ two networks
+ minimize impact on public network (no VLAN requirements; no private IPs on public network hardware, etc.)

I'm using the StackIQ Rocks+Cloud distribution. (RHEL/CentOS 6.4; Cloudstack 4.0.2)

Bryce

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Andrews [mailto:pandrews@Thunderhead.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:14 PM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org; rwheeler@artifact-software.com
Subject: Re: FW: CS 4.1.0 - this will help a number of people who struggle with Advanced Networking

Here too, we've been working through a cloudstack install on a 3 box test environment for almost a week with 95% of the issues being networking due to poor documentation. I'd be happy to follow some new procedures and provide feedback.

Also running CentOS 6.4 on all boxes.

-Phil

On 07/31/2013 03:00 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
> If you need an ignorant person with a lot of CentOS system admin
> experience to walk through the procedure with the authors, let me know.
> I have a bare CentOS 6.4 ready to be made into something that runs
> CloudStack and supports a CentOS VM. If that works, I can rustle up
> another piece of hardware with a bare CentOS to add to the confusion.
>
> Ron
>
> On 31/07/2013 2:33 PM, Marcus Sorensen wrote:
>> Yes, that's correct. I think we need to update the documentation. The
>> user simply needs to create a bridge where 'public' traffic will
>> work, and then set that bridge name as the traffic label for public traffic.
>> Then it will create the vlan device and the bridge necessary for
>> public based on the physical ethernet device of that bridge.
>>
>> Note, in this example, it is only looking for cloudVirBr for
>> compatibility, if there are existing cloudVirBr bridges then the
>> agent will continue to create cloudVirBr bridges, otherwise, it will
>> create breth bridges, which allow the same vlan number on different
>> physical interfaces.
>>
>> We can easily create some concrete examples for this... such as the
>> one represented in devcloud-kvm by
>> tools/devcloud-kvm/devcloud-kvm-advanced.cfg
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Edison Su <Ed...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> The KVM installation guide at http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Installation_Guide/hypervisor-kvm-install-flow.html , is unnecessary complicated and inaccurate.
>>> For example, we don't need to configure vlan on kvm host by users themselves, cloudstack-agent will create vlans automatically.
>>> All users need to do is to create bridges(if the default bridge created by cloudstack-agent is not enough), then add these bridge names from cloudstack mgt server UI during the zone creation.
>>>
>>>

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-----Original Message-----
>>> From: Noel Kendall [mailto:noeldkendall@hotmail.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:49 AM
>>> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
>>> Subject: CS 4.1.0 - this will help a number of people who struggle
>>> with Advanced Networking
>>>
>>> The documentation for installation in a KVM environment is utterly misleading.
>>> The documentation reads as though one can set up the bridge for the public network with any name one chooses, the default being cloudbr0.
>>> You cannot use just any old name. That simply will not work.
>>> Let's suppose I have a public network that I isolate on VLAN 5, which is interfaced on ethernet adapter eth4. I will need to define an adapter eth4.5 with VLAN set to yes.
>>> So far, so good.
>>> Next, for the bridge...
>>> By enabling debugging output in the log, I was able to see that the code looks for a bridge with the name cloudVirBr5 for my public network.
>>> I had tried several different approaches, none would work if I did not name my bridge cloudVirBr5, and set my traffic label on the network configurationto the same.
>>> I have seen numerous posts in the mailing lists, blog entries, you name it, representing frustrations of throngs of users trying to validate a CS setup.
>>> The documentation is utterly wrong and misleading.
>>> Summary:
>>> does not work:traffic label: cloudbr0 with eth4.5 pointing to cloudbr0 - code still tries to create a breth4.5 and enlist eth4.5 to it but cannot because it is already enlisted to cloudbr0.
>>> Good luck everyone with advanced networking with VLAN isolation on CentOS KVM hosts.
>>>
>






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