USATLAS Meeting on Virtual Machines and Configuration Management

US/Eastern
Berkner Hall, Room B (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Berkner Hall, Room B

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS), Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Description
Connection information: 
  • 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
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.
  • Describe any benchmarks studies of vm's
More information:
  • 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
  • Wednesday 15 June
    • 1
      Welcome and Goals
      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: Dr Shawn 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, ...)
    • 11
      Configuration of VDT Services, now and future
      Speaker: Suchandra Thapa (University of Chicago)
      Slides
    • 16:00
      Coffee
  • Thursday 16 June