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USATLAS Meeting on Virtual Machines and Configuration Management
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Berkner Hall, Room B (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Berkner Hall, Room B
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Description
Connection information:
Workshop description:
Meeting for site admins to share information about:
Representatives from each site should be prepared with a few slides addressing the below issues. The workshop format will be very free-formed: we will start with complete description of the full building and configuration management of virtual machines as it is done at BNL. As topics are discussed in detail methods and tools used at the Tier 2's can be compared with the Tier 1 and other Tier 2s.
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EVO connection:
- http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=M2MvMB2e2lDIDD9e98DM92
- Password: 1212
- Phone BridgeID: 356 9753
- Password: 5724
- Phone numbers for the phone bridge : http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/telephone.jsp (BNL: 631-344-6100)
Workshop description:
Meeting for site admins to share information about:
- Virtual machine management strategies and experience gained from US ATLAS sites and elsewhere to date
- Consolidation of head node services into virtual machines Looking forward for configuration management approaches
Representatives from each site should be prepared with a few slides addressing the below issues. The workshop format will be very free-formed: we will start with complete description of the full building and configuration management of virtual machines as it is done at BNL. As topics are discussed in detail methods and tools used at the Tier 2's can be compared with the Tier 1 and other Tier 2s.
- How are nodes built? Distinguish: worker nodes, head nodes, storage nodes, use of templates, as needed.
- Which "cluster services" are used (dhcp, dns, ..etc) and network configurations (use of VLANs, NAT, etc)
- How is configuration managed post-install?
- Describe update methods, eg., use of yum repos (which?)
- Describe virtualization frameworks in use, and which services are running in vm's.
- Describe any virtual cluster management frameworks in use (if any) and/or how are virtual machines administered at your site: instance creation, stop/start, migration and/or failover, etc.
- Describe any benchmarks studies of vm's
- Meeting Twiki page: http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/twiki/bin/view/Admins/FacilitiesMeetingConfigVM.html
- Meeting rooms on Thursday
- Plenary: Building 510 (Physics), Room 2-160 (9am - noon)
- Break-out: Building 510 (Physics), Orange Room (across main entrance)
- Break-out: Building 510 (Physics), Room 2-78
- Break-out: Building 510 (Physics), Room M2-30
- Afternoon plenary: ITD Seminar room, Room B515
