A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
ICCLab is happy to announce the upcoming SDN Workshop, that we are co-organising with SWITCH, will take place on Thursday, 11th of June 2015 – 09:00am to 6:00pm. Location: University of Bern, Main Building, HG , 1st. Floor, Room 115 The aim of this Workshop is to share knowledge, have hands on sessions/presentations on SDN/NFV, Security, […]
There are many different technologies which can increase availability of a cloud infrastructure. In our newest Techcouting paper we evaluate several HA technologies in order to define a HA architecture for an OpenStack deployment which is part of the XiFi project. HA technologies can be grouped in the following classes: Resource monitors that check if […]
In our previous blog posts we mostly focused on virtual machine live migration performance comparing pre-copy, post-copy and hybrid approaches in an Openstack context rather than exploring other live migration features. Libvirt together with the Qemu hypervisor provides many migration configuration options. One of these options is a possibility to use tunneled live migration. Recently […]
After having completed part 1 of our series about reliability analysis, we now start with our first reliability measurement experiment. According to reliabili theory there are three things we could measure: survival probability, hazard rate and failure rate. The last one is the easiest one in practice. Therefore we design an experiment to measure the […]
Ceilometer can collect a large amount of data, particularly in a system with large amount of servers and high activity: in such a scenario, the numbers of meters and samples can be large which affects ceilometer performance and gives rise to quite large databases. In our particular case we are studying energy consumption in servers […]
Previously we described how to set up post-copy live migration in OpenStack Icehouse (and it should not be a problem to set it up in the same way in Juno). Naturally, we were curious to see how it performs. In this blog post we focus on performance analysis of post-copy live migration in Openstack Icehouse […]
We have shed blood, sweat and tears trying to get post-copy live migration working in OpenStack over the last month: this blogpost explains all the necessary steps to make it work and hopefully it will save future post-copy pioneers some pain. In our previous blog post we focused on setting it up in QEMU. This […]
In our previous blog post we showed a web application to monitor and understand energy consumption in an Openstack cluster; the main goal of this tool is to understand how energy consumption relates to activity on the cloud resources. In general, this can be quite complex as there are many resources to take in account […]
ICCLab had the privilege to talk about our latest research activities in “Rating, Charging & Billing” & “Performance analysis of live migrations in OpenStack” at the #vBrownBag Tech talks which were held as part of OpenStack summit in Paris. Here we provide a short summary of each talk and include the captured video for your viewing […]
CERN Openstack (super) User Story CERN is looking for answers to the fundamental questions concerning creation of the Universe and true to its nature, its a a big data challenge. With the historical run of LHC in 2013, their archive now contains ~100PB (with additional 27PB/year) at ~11 000 servers with ~75000 disk drives and ~45 000 […]