Ceph: OSD “down” and “out” of the cluster – An obvious case

When setting up a cluster with ceph-deploy, just after the ceph-deploy osd activate phase and the distribution of keys, the OSDs should be both “up” and “in” the cluster. One thing that is not mentioned in the quick-install documentation with ceph-deploy or the OSDs monitoring or troubleshooting page (or at least I didn’t find it), is that, upon (re-)boot, mounting […]


International Workshop on Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability

The First International Workshop on Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability (CAIMS 2014) is to be co-located with the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) held in London, UK, December 8th – 11th 2014. Objectives: The emergence of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing environments which allow the dynamic […]



Swiss Informatics SIG CC kick-off meeting – 21-May-2014

The participation to the announced Swiss Informatics SIG CC  kick-off meeting, hosted by ZHAW ICCLAB on 21-May-2014 in Winterthur, was good (industrial, SME, academic and associations) and the assembly confirmed that overall objectives of this Group are the understanding of cloud computing technologies and related supporting actions for Swiss industry, research and education. To achieve […]