Moving VMs to particular Hosts

[Makrand <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Lets say I've a XENserver resource pool containing 8 hosts in my cloudstack
setup. I've only handful of windows VM running, lets say on host1. In case
host1 goes down abruptly, is there any way I can restrict these VMs to move
(via HA motion) to only host 2,3 or 4 and not to remaining hosts in
cluster? Is this doable from cloud stack?


Thing is, we only have handful of windows VMs (2008 R2/2012 R2). The way
Microsoft licences: If you're expecting your VM to reside on particular
host, you should purchase license for that host. This is what the Microsoft
guy told to my manager. So we are planning to license 4 hosts only. Kind of
odd licensing policy from MS, I must say.



--
Makrand

Re: Moving VMs to particular Hosts

[Marc-Aurèle Brothier <ma...@exoscale.ch>]

Erik is correct about the preferred guest os to stick Windows VMs to a set
of hosts. We're not using HA, so I cannot guarantee that they will be
picked up but it should.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Erik Weber <te...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If I recall correctly then CloudStack has a setting for the preferred guest
> os that should run on a host? Should be in host settings.
>
>
> Erik
>
> ons. 15. feb. 2017 kl. 06.13 skrev Makrand <ma...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Lets say I've a XENserver resource pool containing 8 hosts in my
> cloudstack
> > setup. I've only handful of windows VM running, lets say on host1. In
> case
> > host1 goes down abruptly, is there any way I can restrict these VMs to
> move
> > (via HA motion) to only host 2,3 or 4 and not to remaining hosts in
> > cluster? Is this doable from cloud stack?
> >
> >
> > Thing is, we only have handful of windows VMs (2008 R2/2012 R2). The way
> > Microsoft licences: If you're expecting your VM to reside on particular
> > host, you should purchase license for that host. This is what the
> Microsoft
> > guy told to my manager. So we are planning to license 4 hosts only. Kind
> of
> > odd licensing policy from MS, I must say.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Makrand
> >
>

Re: Moving VMs to particular Hosts

[Erik Weber <te...@gmail.com>]

If I recall correctly then CloudStack has a setting for the preferred guest
os that should run on a host? Should be in host settings.


Erik

ons. 15. feb. 2017 kl. 06.13 skrev Makrand <ma...@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Lets say I've a XENserver resource pool containing 8 hosts in my cloudstack
> setup. I've only handful of windows VM running, lets say on host1. In case
> host1 goes down abruptly, is there any way I can restrict these VMs to move
> (via HA motion) to only host 2,3 or 4 and not to remaining hosts in
> cluster? Is this doable from cloud stack?
>
>
> Thing is, we only have handful of windows VMs (2008 R2/2012 R2). The way
> Microsoft licences: If you're expecting your VM to reside on particular
> host, you should purchase license for that host. This is what the Microsoft
> guy told to my manager. So we are planning to license 4 hosts only. Kind of
> odd licensing policy from MS, I must say.
>
>
>
> --
> Makrand
>

Re: Moving VMs to particular Hosts

[Koushik Das <ko...@accelerite.com>]

Use host tags or only have the required number of hosts in the cluster.

-Koushik

On 15/02/17, 11:43 AM, "Makrand" <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi,
    
    Lets say I've a XENserver resource pool containing 8 hosts in my cloudstack
    setup. I've only handful of windows VM running, lets say on host1. In case
    host1 goes down abruptly, is there any way I can restrict these VMs to move
    (via HA motion) to only host 2,3 or 4 and not to remaining hosts in
    cluster? Is this doable from cloud stack?
    
    
    Thing is, we only have handful of windows VMs (2008 R2/2012 R2). The way
    Microsoft licences: If you're expecting your VM to reside on particular
    host, you should purchase license for that host. This is what the Microsoft
    guy told to my manager. So we are planning to license 4 hosts only. Kind of
    odd licensing policy from MS, I must say.
    
    
    
    --
    Makrand
    




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