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
Contributions:
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.
Speakers:
Michael Ernst(Unknown), Robert GARDNER(UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
2
Building and managing virtual machines at the Tier 1
Speakers:
James Pryor, Jason Alexander Smith(Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unkno), John Steven De Stefano Jr(Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
Slides
3
Experiences at MWT2: Building nodes with Cobbler
Speaker:
Aaron van Meeretn(University of Chicago)
Slides
4
Experiences at MWT2: Configuration Management with Puppet
Speaker:
Sarah Williams(Indiana University)
Slides
11:10
Coffee
5
Experiences at AGLT2: building and managing nodes with ROCKS
Slides
6
Puppet for Tier-3s
Speaker:
Yushu Yao(LBL)
Slides
12:30
Lunch
7
Experiences with virtual machine management at AGLT2
Speaker:
DrShawn McKee(University of Michigan ATLAS Group)
Slides
8
Experience with KVM and virtual machine management at MWT2
Speaker:
Nate Yehle(University of Chicago)
Slides
9
VM Performance at UC ITB site
Speaker:
Suchandra Thapa(University of Chicago)
Slides
10
VM configuration frameworks (discussion about HA, VM cluster management, ...)