[Openstack] [HA] Upgrade existing environment to HA

2018-03-08 Thread Eugen Block
Hi list, I have a question regarding high availability. There's an existing cloud (Ocata) which developed from demo to production environment. Now I have to find a way to make it highly available, starting with the control node. I've been gathering all kinds of information to prepare a migr

[Openstack] [Swift] Composite ring building

2018-03-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Hi, I'm looking at what the state of play is for using Erasure coding with a multi region topology (ahem - again). It seems to me that (as of approx 2.15) the recommended way to design this makes use of: - ec_duplication_factor and - composite rings The former is clearly just a parameter, w

[Openstack] [Pike] [Nova] Shutting down VMs with Cinder Volumes

2018-03-08 Thread Father Vlasie
Hello everyone, I have a couple of compute nodes that need HD upgrades. They are running VMs with Cinder volumes. My question is this: Can I shutdown the VMs, rebuild the compute nodes, and then relaunch the VMs? I am thinking “yes” because the volumes are not ephemeral but I am not sure. Are