[Fiware-lab-federation-nodes] Ficore : SophiaAntipolis Node - Upgrade

Sean Murphy sean at gopaddy.ch
Tue Apr 26 10:37:17 CEST 2016


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BR,
Seán.


On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Badia Philippe <
philippe.badia at com4innov.com> wrote:

> Hi Alvaro, Sean,
>
> Thanks for the answer and the sharing.
>
> So we understand that the upgraded will be seen as a new Fiware node.
>
> 2 comments here:
>
> *#1* As the HW infrastructure will upgraded ( HDD/RAM) and merged with
> the new Ficore, we'll need at one moment to shut down the Xifi node before
> having the new node operational. Of course we will communicate on that with
> our users and we'll do our best to minimise this downtime time.
>
> *#2* As stated by Sean, if our understanding is correct, we are able to
> migrate the data of the existing VMs but how can we allow  the users to
> retrieve their VM on their cloud portal account  account as the tenant will
> change ?
> As it involves the Federation Keystone,  do you have a guideline or
> feedback from previous upgrade that could help us ?
>
> Best regards,
> Philippe
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> I think the best option is the first one. In fact that is more or less the
> procedure established but FIWARE Lab handbooks. Only few notes:
>
> - Node name: you have to use SophiaAntipolis2 for the new node
> - Users: you have to use the same admin and services users for the new node
> - New node will be hidden in the cloud portal during federation tests
> - Old node will be accesible in the cloud portal till the new one is ready
>
> Anyway, Fernando (cc’ed) could tell you detailed information about the
> precess.
>
> BR
> --
> Álvaro
>
>
> Le 21/04/2016 à 15:10, Sean Murphy a écrit :
>
> Hi Philippe, all,
>
> In the spirit of sharing...
>
> - Deploy Openstack Kilo on the New servers
>> - Check Openstack services
>> - Request new service endpoints with Federation keystone ( Nova, Cinder,
>> Neutron, Glance, Ceilometer)
>>   Node name : Can we keep the same  : SophiaAntipolis ?
>>   Admin user : Can we keep the same admin-c4 ?
>> - Check connection with the Federation
>> - Snapshots existing VMs
>> - Stop the Xifi node and migrate the servers to the new node
>> - Migrate VMs for the Xifi infrastructure to the new node
>>
>
> There are a couple of non trivial points here (which we have not solved
> yet)...
> - we don't think it is possible as admin to create a vm for a tenant based
> on a snapshot
> - importing a snapshot is possible under the admin user and it can be
> shared with a non-admin user
> - importing a volume for a specific tenant does not seem to be directly
> possible right now.
>
> The solutions unfortunately seem to involve tampering with databases which
> is super ugly and
> error prone...
>
> If anyone has any other thoughts on this, it would be much appreciated.
>
> BR,
> Seán.
>
>
>
>>   How to handle the user impact on the cloud portal depending on the
>> changes above ?
>> - Ficore node fully operational
>>
>>
>>
>> *Solution 2 *
>> We"ll keep the same service end point parameters for the upgraded node.
>> The users might be more impacted with this solution as the shutdown of
>> the Xifi node will be done at the beginning of the plan.
>>
>> - Deploy Openstack Kilo on the 5 New servers
>> - Snapshot of existing VMs
>> - Stop the Xifi node and migrate the servers to the new node
>> - Check Openstack services
>> - Use the existing service endpoints with Federation keystone ( Nova,
>> Cinder, Neutron, Glance, Ceilometer)
>>   Node name remains unchanged : SophiaAntipolis
>>   Admin user remains unchanged  admin-c4
>> - Check connection with the Federation
>> - Migrate VMs for the Xifi infrastructure to the new node.
>>   How to handle the existing VMs re-creation on the new nodes ?
>> - Ficore node fully operational
>>
>>
>> Let us know your thoughts and what would be your preferred solution.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Philippe
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