A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Ceilometer Introduction Ceilometer is a monitoring tool for OpenStack cloud environments. In the next OpenStack release called Havana it will take part as a core component. However, Ceilometer is also available for the OpenStack releases Folsom and Grizzly. Currently Ceilometer offers only data of the OpenStack core components and the virtual machines of the cloud. […]
The ICCLab has now a new testbed for their work/research in the Cloud-Computing field at no other location than the datacenters of Equinix – one of our collaboration partners and generous donor of the rackspace – in Zurich. Schlagwörter: Datacenter, Equinix, icclab, OIL, Open Innovation Lab, XIFI
The “Dependability Modeling Framework” (DMF) becomes famous: Konstantin Benz and Thomas M. Bohnert will present their newest paper about the Dependability Modeling Framework at the First International Workshop on “Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Network” (CLEEN) which takes place from September 2-5 in Las Vegas. The ICCLab researchers will show a methodology on […]
Some time back we introduced a piece of work that we are working on: OpenStack on SmartOS. Today we start a new blog post series to dig into SmartOS and its features. We’ll start with a quick introduction to SmartOS to get everyone started with this platform. SmartOS is an open source live operating system mainly […]
With this post we are going to start a new series on Distributed File Systems. We are going to start with an introduction to a file system that is enjoying a good amount of success: Ceph. Ceph is a distributed parallel fault-tolerant file system that can offer object, block, and file storage from a single cluster. […]
The 30th birthday of the Swiss Informatics Society (SI), held on Tue 25 June in Fribourg CH, concluded successfully with more then 200 participants who globally have attended the thematic workshops in the morning, the inaugural Meeting of the Swiss AIS Chapter and the plenary in the afternoon.
We post hereafter relevant topics on the Cloud Computing workshop, moderated by ZHAW ICCLAB, and the award ceremony.
How good was my last configuration change? The following article shows how to implement the “7-Step Continual Service Improvement”-Process for a cloud computing environment.
Irena joined the ICCLab in February 2015 as a researcher. She is working on the Software Defined Networking initiative with a particular focus on architectures and use-case solutions for cloud-based datacenters. As a visiting student at the lab in 2013 Irena was working on SDN QoS applications inside the FI-PPP project KIARA. Currently she is involved in the […]
With Phase II getting into full force it is a particular honor for us to host the first Phase II face-to-face Architecture Board meeting of the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership. Important topics were addressed, like the previous SB meeting, the status of the current FI-PPP projects, first architecture discussions, status of FI-PPP capacities, and many […]
The ICCLab developed a new High Availability solution for OpenStack which relies on DRBD and Pacemaker. OpenStack services are installed on top of a redundant 2 node MySQL database. The 2 node MySQL database stores its data tables on a DRBD device which is distributed on the 2 nodes. OpenStack can be reached via a […]