A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The Green IT Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Swiss Informatics Society met yesterday (29/10/14) in Zurich. ZKB kindly hosted the event. A full meeting report will probably appear on the group’s website, but here we just capture some of our reflections on the group’s work. This was our second time to attend the group […]
In our last ICCLab newsletter, in the cloud economics tutorial, we introduced how cloud infrastructures could be utilized for off-loading the variable and unpredictable resource needs. This is one of the basic principles of public cloud business. The InIT ICCLab cloud-economics lecture provides extensive use case studies and lab exercises on these topics. 1. Use […]
In this post we take a look at Kubernetes and help you setup a Kubernetes Cluster on your existing OpenStack Cloud using its Orchestration Service Heat. This Kubernetes Cluster should only be used as a Proof of Concept. Technology involved: Kubernetes: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes CoreOS: https://coreos.com/ etcd: https://github.com/coreos/etcd fleet: https://github.com/coreos/fleet flannel: https://github.com/coreos/flannel kube-register: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kube-register The Heat Template used in this Post is available on […]
Last week, 16 Oct 2014, great participation to OpenStack User Group – Meeting @ICCLab Winterthur. We have co-located it with docker CH meetup. Around 60 participants from both the user groups. For this event, we have organised the agenda trying to have a good mix of big players and developers presentations. Goals : Analysis […]
What is it all about? We’re using a bunch of VMs to do numerical dosimetry and are very satisfied with the service and performance we get. Here I try to give some background on our work. Assume yourself sitting in the dentists chair for an x-ray image of your teeth. How much radiation will miss […]
The icclab participated on the Nagios World Conference 2014 which took place Oct 13th-16th, 2014 in St. Paul, MN, USA. Icclab’s Cloud High Availability-initiative leader Konstantin Benz presented an approach on how to use Nagios Core to monitor utilization of OpenStack resources. The key point he mentioned was that Nagios has to be reconfigured elastically […]
In our previous work we presented the performance of live migration in Openstack Icehouse using various types of VM flavors, its memory load and also examined how it performs in network and CPU loaded environment (see our previous posts –performance of live migration, performance of block live migration, performance of both under varying cpu and […]
Hello World! Valon Mamudi started with his apprenticeship 2008 at Klein Computer System AG, after four years apprenticeship and two years work as an System Engineer at the same Company, he decided to change his role and take on new challenges, consequently he started as an ICT Service Engineer at ZHAW. He is now responsible for […]
OpenStack User Group – Meeting, 16 Oct. at ICCLab Winterthur Co-located with docker CH meeting Goals: Analysis of OpenStack Solutions, deployments and container solutions. Hosting: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Science Technikumstrasse 9, 8401 Winterthur Data: 16.10.2013 – 18:00 – 21:00 Agenda start: 18.00 – ROOM TL203 (Chemistry Building) (order of speakers may […]
For our SDK4SDN work we made a comparison between two SDN controllers: Ryu and Opendaylight. We focused on the Northbound APIs of the controllers and we compared the capabilities and ease of use of their respective REST APIs. Both controllers support REST, which is based on a mix of HTTP, JSON and XML. In Ryu a WSGI web server […]