{"id":4508,"date":"2012-05-20T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T09:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2014-04-03T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T09:33:22","slug":"the-init-cloud-computing-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/the-init-cloud-computing-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"The InIT Cloud Computing Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ICCLab project is the foundational seed project or our research lab. It designs, deploys, and operates the ICCLab cloud computing hard and software infrastructure and addresses important research aspects around automation and interoperability of cloud computing infrastructure and frameworks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hard and Software Infrastructure and Framworks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-274 alignleft\" title=\"openstack-cloud-software-vertical-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2012\/05\/openstack-cloud-software-vertical-large-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2012\/05\/openstack-cloud-software-vertical-large-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2012\/05\/openstack-cloud-software-vertical-large-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2012\/05\/openstack-cloud-software-vertical-large.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>The framework of choice is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\">OpenStack<\/a>, which enjoys significant industry and academic support and is reaching good levels of maturity. The lab will support pre-production usage scenarios on top of OpenStack services as well as experimental research on OpenStack technology and extensions. Currently the actively deployed\u00a0OpenStack services are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/projects\/compute\/\">OpenStack\u00a0compute service<\/a>\u00a0(including keystone, glance and nova),\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/projects\/storage\/\">Swift, an object storage service<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>The lab is equipped with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commercial_off-the-shelf\">COTS<\/a> computing units, each running on 8\u00d72.4 Ghz Cores, 64GB RAM and 4\u00d71TB local storage per unit. To store templates and other data the we run an additional\u00a012TB NFS or iSCSI Storage which is connected to a switch with a 10Gbit Ethernet interface. The Computing Units are connected to a 1Gbit network for data and another 1Gbit net for control traffic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2012\/05\/Puppet-Labs-Logo-Vertical-Sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-276\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" title=\"Puppet-Labs-Logo-Vertical-Sm\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2012\/05\/Puppet-Labs-Logo-Vertical-Sm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"62\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>At the heart of the CCLab is the Management Server, which provides an easy way to stage different setups for\u00a0different OpenStack instances (productive, experimental, etc.). The Management Server provides a DHCP, PXE and NFS Server and some pre-configured processes which allow a bare metal computing unit to be provisioned automatically, using <a href=\"http:\/\/theforeman.org\">Foreman<\/a>, and then have preassigned roles installed, using a\u00a0combination\u00a0of Foreman and <a href=\"http:\/\/puppetlabs.com\">Puppet<\/a>. This provides a great deal of flexibility and support for different usage scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One core concern with Cloud Computing addressed by the ICCLab seed project is Cloud interoperability and the ICCLab project is\u00a0inparticular\u00a0driving the OCCI standardization. A second, more operational concern is automation (deployment, configuration, scaling) of \u00a0cloud computing services. Details about these activities can be found under the research themes and blog space at this website.<\/p>\n<p>In-depth treatments are documented in<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/icclab-to-present-from-bare-metal-to-cloud-at-egi-technical-forum-2012\/\">ICCLab to Present \u201cFrom Bare-Metal to Cloud\u201d at EGI Technical Forum 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A. Edmonds,\u00a0\u201dOpen Cloud Computing Interface\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dmtf.org\/sites\/default\/files\/20110518-ISO-SC38_DMTF-APTS_OGF-OCCI.pdf\">Presentation<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/oracleweb.webex.com\/oracleweb\/ldr.php?AT=pb&amp;SP=MC&amp;rID=61872602&amp;rKey=ab9a4cf5f52a9296\">audio<\/a>) to ISO SC38 at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dmtf.org\/news\/events\/2011apts\/2011_schedule#wed1\">DMTF APTS<\/a>, Boulder Colorado, 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICCLab project is the foundational seed project or our research lab. 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