Speaker
Ian Peter Collier
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
Description
The RAL Tier-1 has been deploying production virtual machines for several years. As we move to providing a production private cloud, managed using OpenNebula, we have experimented with a range of different ways of deploying virtual machine images on hypervisors. We present a quantative comparison of a variety of virtual machine image and storage combinations, including monolithic Scientific Linux VMs copied and run locally on hy[pervisors, the same images run on Ceph shared storage, lean images with volatile filesystems created and run locally as required. We will also examine the same combinations using the micro-CernVM - where the bulk of the operating system is provided by the CernVM filesystem. We will compare performance, with regards to both instantiation time and computational performance for HEP workloads, and also discuss the virtual machine managememt implications of each combination.
Primary authors
Alexander Dibbo
(STFC RAL)
George Ryall
(STFC)
Ian Peter Collier
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
Co-authors
Andrew David Lahiff
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
Mr
Frazer Barnsley
(STFC)
