16:02:33 #startmeeting hyper-v 16:02:34 Meeting started Tue Sep 10 16:02:33 2013 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is alexpilotti. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:02:35 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 16:02:37 The meeting name has been set to 'hyper_v' 16:02:45 Hi guys 16:03:01 who's around today? 16:03:11 hanrahat's here 16:03:21 hi Tom! 16:03:39 Iben's here... 16:03:49 let's wait a couple of minutes to see if anybody joins 16:04:04 streaming live from the SDDC Symposium in Santa Clara, CA 16:04:24 iben: hi there! 16:04:31 hi all 16:05:21 ok let's start 16:05:28 #topic H3 16:06:09 Things went fairly well in the end, as most of the blueprints got accepted and merged 16:07:06 Since it's a big amount of features, we need to test as much as possible in the next few weeks 16:07:23 Havana will be cut in roughly one month 16:07:50 another good news is that Hyper-V 2012 R2 has been released yesterday 16:08:11 for MSDN subscribers only for now, but it's already RTM 16:08:23 alexpilotti: I've updated https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Hyper-V#Code to reflect h3 but we also need to think about documentation soon. 16:09:06 hanrahat: great job, thanks 16:09:14 cool 16:09:52 the amount of Hyper-V features is becoming fairly large, so it's definitely important to do that 16:10:06 #action update Hyper-V docs for Havana 16:10:40 let's get now into detail about some of the blueprints that need special attention 16:11:02 #topic Ceilometer 16:11:07 #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/hyper-v-agent 16:12:09 The inspector merged and we're in the process of adding the ceilometer agent in our installer to make it easily available in most OpenStack Hyper-V installations 16:12:28 It's based on the Hyper-V metrics API, introduced in 2012 16:13:10 CPU and network metrics are available with 2012, while disk metrics require 2012 R2 16:13:54 this needs to be pointed out in the upcoming documentation 16:14:48 to avoid useless waste of resources, the metrics are not enabled in nova and neutron by default 16:15:41 enable_instance_metrics_collection must be set to true 16:15:53 in the config options 16:16:21 the installer will do it automatically of course, but it needs to be pointed out in case of manual installation 16:17:03 #topic WMI V2 16:17:44 all Hyper-V related OpenStack projects are now using WMI V2 on Windows >= 2012 16:18:31 so 2012 R2 compute nodes are perfectly feasible 16:18:55 we're thinking about back porting this code to grizzly (outside of the tree of course) 16:19:14 #topic VHDX 16:19:18 #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyper-v-vhdx 16:20:11 As already widely discussed, VHDX allows us to improve performance in local storage and to resize differencing (CoW) disks 16:20:39 there's one consideration related to the format 16:21:01 AFAIK there are no open source converters that manage VHDX 16:21:31 when users want to convert images (e.g. QCow2) the usually employ qemu-img convert 16:21:45 which currently supports VHD, but not VHDX 16:22:44 to avoid having most people using the old format, it might be wise to contribute the VHDX conversion bits to qemu-img 16:23:36 currently, users need to convert QCow2 -> VHD and then VHD -> VHDX 16:23:49 (the latter on Windows, e.g. by using Powershell) 16:24:23 #topic Cinder 16:24:28 #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/windows-storage-driver-extended 16:24:34 pnavarro: ping 16:25:21 pnavarro took care as usual of the Cinder bits 16:25:47 he's not joining us today, so we'll postpone details about this for next time 16:26:13 #topic Ephemeral storage 16:26:16 #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyper-v-ephemeral-storage 16:26:41 Not much to say on this topic, beside the fact that now we have it as well :-) 16:26:51 it supports of course VHD and VHDX 16:27:17 with the former used in case the platform is < 2012 16:27:42 #topic Dynamic memory 16:27:45 #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyper-v-dynamic-memory 16:28:03 And finally, memory ballooning has been included as well 16:28:36 a simple property has been used to set the default percentage on the compute node 16:28:56 we might think about extending this with an image property in the future 16:29:29 #topic general discussion 16:30:09 In the next week we'll test all the bits and make sure that everything works as expected 16:30:43 especially on 2012 R2 16:31:01 If anybody has anything to add this is a good moment :-) 16:31:29 alexpilotti: let's talk offline about how I can help with the documentation 16:31:43 hanrahat: sure! 16:32:08 Ok, that's all folks for today! 16:32:14 #endmeeting