OpenStack Archive

High Availability on OpenStack

ICCLab’s MobileCloud Networking solution is supposed to offer private cloud services to end users. MobileCloud is based on OpenStack. Since our OpenStack installation is supposed to be used mainly by end users, it is necessary to provide High Availability.

As mobile end users we all know that we want our IT services to be available everytime and everywhere – 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year. End users normally don’t reflect that this requirement is challenge for system architects, developers and engineers who offer the IT services. Cloud components must be kept under regular maintenance to remain stable and secure. While performing maintenance changes, engineers have to shut down components. At the same time the service should still remain available for the end user. Achieving High Availability in a cloud environment is a very complex and challenging task.

13.03.2013 benn

Kategorie: Articles, HowTos, OpenStack

ICCLab Present on Ceilometer at 2nd Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting

On the 19th February the 2nd Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting took place. One of the presentations was held on Ceilometer by Toni and Lucas from the ICCLab. They talked about the history, the current and future features, the architecture and the requirements of ceilometer and explained how to use and extend it. You can […]

05.03.2013 graflu0

Kategorie: Articles, Events, Open Source, OpenStack

2nd Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting

The second swiss OpenStack user group (CHOSUG) was held. It was an excellent event so well attended that there was only standing room! A big thanks goes out to the organisers and sponsors (RackSpace, SWITCH and ICCLab). There was six presentations, 3 which were more detailed and 3 that were more lightning talks in nature. […]

20.02.2013 Andy Edmonds

Kategorie: Articles, Community, Events, OpenStack

How to Test your OpenStack Deployment?

Like us in the ICCLab, you have likely spent lots of time researching the best means to deploy OpenStack and you’ve decided upon a particular method (at the ICCLab we use foreman and puppet). You’ve implemented OpenStack with your chosen deployment plan and technologies and you now have an operational OpenStack cluster. The question you now have to ask is: “How do I test that all functionality is operating correctly?”

08.02.2013 Andy Edmonds

Kategorie: Articles, OpenStack

How Do You Organise Your OpenStack Deployment?

So you have a new shiny OpenStack installation! Within that installation you may have differing classes of hardware and so you wish to be able to organise those classes

To organise your OpenStack deployment there are two concepts currently available: Availability Zones (AZs) and Cells. These allow you categorise your resources within an OpenStack deployment and organise those resources as you see fit. These is a very useful feature in order to offer different types of the same service. For example you might want to offer a compute service that runs on SSDs or plain spinning disks.

In this article we’ll describe OpenStack Availability Zones (AZs) and OpenStack Cells. We’ll also show how each differ.

05.02.2013 Andy Edmonds

Kategorie: Articles, OpenStack

2nd Swiss OpenStack Meetup

We (ICCLab and ZHGeeks) are pleased to announce the 2nd Swiss OpenStack Meetup. It will happen on the 19th of February in Zurich at ETH. If you’re keen and interested in attending then please register here. If you are interested in giving a talk then do give a shout out at the meetup site or simply message @OpenStackCH on twitter. Currently […]

03.01.2013 Andy Edmonds

Kategorie: Community, Events, OpenStack

Parallel OpenStack Multi Hosts Deployments with Foreman and Puppet

In our lab we have the need to have one environment which is running OpenStack Essex and another which is running OpenStack Folsom. Here’s a guide on how we setup our infrastructure so we can support the two environments in parallel.

15.12.2012 icclab

Kategorie: Articles, HowTos, OpenStack

Monitoring and OpenStack

Many people think it maybe an unnecessary burden to set up a monitoring system for their infrastructure. However this, when it comes to an OpenStack installation should be considered indispensable and required. Knowing which resources are used by which VMs (and tenants) is crucial for cloud computing providers as well for their customers from billing and usage perspectives.

22.11.2012 graflu0

Kategorie: Articles, HowTos, OpenStack

1st Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting

The 1st Swiss OpenStack user group meeting that was organized by the zhgeeks and the ICCLab at the ETH Zürich met with a large response. Over 90 people attended the meeting with different background and interests in connection with OpenStack. The meeting started with a good and brief introduction into the components and the community around OpenStack by Tim Bell and how it is […]

21.11.2012 aepp

Kategorie: Articles, Events, OpenStack

Upcoming Events: Swiss OpenStack User Group and OCCI Working Group Meetings

In coordination with ZH-Geeks, the ICCLab will be hosting the very first Swiss OpenStack user group meeting on the 15th of Novemeber. In addition to Tim Bell there will be a number of other speakers who will present on various OpenStack topics. Tim Bell runs the infrastructure team at CERN where they run a very […]

05.10.2012 TMB

Kategorie: Articles, OCCI, OpenStack, Standards

Service Engineering (ICCLab & SPLab)

Category: OpenStack

High Availability on OpenStack

2nd Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting

How to Test your OpenStack Deployment?

How Do You Organise Your OpenStack Deployment?

2nd Swiss OpenStack Meetup

Parallel OpenStack Multi Hosts Deployments with Foreman and Puppet