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Re: Making Nova HA summit notes

 

Hi,
Thank you for the work on making nova components HA.

Did you have a chance to move further in this topic?
I especially interested in making nova-network HA and looking for possible
active-active implementations,
so the downtime of the service would me minimal.

Thank you,

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Edward Konetzko
<konetzed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I have attached the slides and Tushar Patil doc on making nova-network ha
> along with the etherpad notes on the bottom.
>
>
> I hope to follow this email up later on in the week with plans for a full
> reference document based on Cacti.  Thanks for everyone’s participation at
> the Summit.
>
> Thanks
> Edward Konetzko
>
> Etherpad notes
>
>
> This Etherpad is for the
> Discussion on Design & Software Considerations for Making Nova HA/Fault
> Tolerant
> Please put ideas or comments in the appropriate sections
>
>
> Database
> - Does zones alleviate the need for HAing the DB?
>
>
>
> RabbitMQ
> For comparison http://wiki.secondlife.com/**wiki/Message_Queue_Evaluation_
> **Notes <http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Message_Queue_Evaluation_Notes>
> - Need to update managers to create persistant queues and messages
> - XMPP an alternate?
> Talk to RabbitMQ devs about
> - Long term can we use Burrow?
>
>
> Nova-Network
> NTT Data documentation mailed to openstack list for their heartbeat POC
> tests
> Are there issues running multiple network nodes and assigning the same IP
> to mutlple instances?
> How about VRRP protocol?
>   --> we (NTT) are planning to evaluate VRRP using keepalived or some other
> software. Does anyone knows suitable software?
>
>
> Nova-scheduler
> Vish said you can run more then one
> - Yeah with zones and how the scheduler is structured now, it can
>
>
> Nova-api
> Possibliy to run this behind real web server, apache, nginx
>
>
> Nova-volume
>
> Nova-Objectstore
>
> Nova-Compute
>
>
> Other ideas
> Services should use dns srv records or something to automate service
> discovery, this would make running large infrastructures and ipv6
> configureation alot easier.
> - zeroconf?  -<-- like the idea but anyone can announce anything in
> zeroconf it has no idea of a master for security.
> Agreed
> Look at vrrp and keepalived
>
>
> Take aways
> Start Discussion with Rabbitmq
> Message Bus needs more investigation
> Discussion on how do we make messages have delievery
> Give feed back to end user, fail or pass just dont leave state in pending
> forever
>
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Mike Scherbakov

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