A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
As system administrators it is difficult to gather performance data before going productive. Benchmarking tools offer a comfortable way to gather performance data by simulating usage of a productive system. In the OpenStack world we can employ the Mirantis Rally tool to benchmark VM performance of our cloud environment. Rally comes with some predefined benchmarking […]
How does one remove a faulty/un/re-provisioned physical machine from the list of managed physical nodes in OpenStack nova? Recently we had to remove a compute node in our cluster for management reasons (read, it went dead on us). But nova perpetually maintains the host entry hoping at some point in time, it will come back […]
In Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN) we rely heavily on OpenStack, OpenShift and of course Automation. So that developers can get working fast with their own local infrastructure, we’ve spent time setting up an automated workflow, using Vagrant and puppet to setup both OpenStack and OpenShift. If you want to experiment with both OpenStack and OpenShift locally, simply clone this project…
Openstack is generally well suited for typical use cases and there is hardly reasons to tinker with advance options and features available. Normally you would plan your public IP addresses usage and management well in advance, but if you are an experimental lab like ours, many a times things are handled in an ad-hoc manner. […]
This blog post describes the installation of OpenStack Grizzly with help of the Stackforge Puppet-Modules on CentOS 6.4 – with the use of network namespaces. The setup consists of a controller/network and a compute node. Of course additional compute nodes can later be added as needed.
Why is service quality important? A cloud can be seen as a service which is provided by a cloud provider and consumed by an end user. The cloud provider has the goal to maximize profit by providing cloud services to end users. Usually there are no fixed prices for using cloud services: users have to […]
The ICCLab was invited to give a talk on Interoperability and APIs in OpenStack at EGI Technical Forum which was co-located with Cloud Interoperability Week. The workshop and hands-on tutorial sessions took place between September 18-20, 2013 in the beautiful city of Madrid. The presentation sessions were followed by panel discussion where all the speakers […]
If you ever tried to implement High Availability in OpenStack by using Pacemaker, you might be disappointed by Pacemaker’s extremely slow recovery speed. Pacemaker recovers OpenStack at a very low pace – and even worse: it sometimes detects outages when they do not occur. As a result Pacemaker starts unnecessary computationally intensive recovery actions which […]
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 […]
The OpenStack foundation is celebrating its 3rd birthday this year and the ICCLab will be, as always, helping out at this year’s OpenStack birthday celebration. The event will be held on Coast of Zurisee near China Gardens Bellerivestrasse 138 8008 Zürich on the 19th of July at 19:00. It is for everyone that is interested in […]