Posts By: Mirantis Inc.

Here is what happens inside Nova when you provision a VM

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At the Essex conference summit this past month, we presented a session on  OpenStack Essex architecture. As a part of that workshop we visually demonstrated the request flow for provisioning a VM and went over Essex arthicture. There was a lot of interest in this material; it’s now posted in Slideshare: Recap of the request flow… Read more »

I hear the Essex Train a-coming

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With Essex train in the wilds of testing, and the Essex release intended date less than 10 days away, we are pretty excited about everyone descending on San Francisco — practically our home town — for the Design Summit and Conference. Here at Mirantis, the company famous across OpenStack community for distributing vodka bottles at… Read more »

Under the hood of Swift: the Ring

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This is the first post in series that summarizes our analysis of Swift architecture. We’ve tried to highlight some points that are not clear enough in the official documentation. Our primary base was an in-depth look into the source code. The following material applies to version 1.4.6 of Swift. The Ring is the vital part… Read more »

OpenStack Party @ CloudConnect 2012

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For those attending CloudConnect 2012 in Santa Clara –   Join stackers from all over the world at the OpenStack CloudConnect 2012 party at Fahrenheit Lounge, hosted by Mirantis, Rackspace and Cloudscaling. Open bar, Hors D’oeuvres and music all night long. This is the place to be at CloudConnect on a Wednesday night. We’ll have… Read more »

Clustered LVM on DRBD resource in Fedora Linux

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(Crossposted from Mirantis Official Blog) As Florian Haas has pointed out in my previous post’s comment, our shared storage configuration requires special precautions to avoid corruption of data when two hosts connected via DRBD try to manage LVM volumes simultaneously. Generally, these precautions concern locking LVM metadata operations while running DRBD in ‘dual-primary’ mode. Let’s… Read more »

OpenStack Nova: basic disaster recovery

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We have published a new blog post about handling basic issues and virtual machines recovery methods. From the blog: Today, I want to take a look at some possible issues that may be encountered while using OpenStack. The purpose of this topic is to share our experience dealing with the hardware or software failures which… Read more »