Re: Infrastructure for Jenkins

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:57 +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 07/12/2012 05:55 PM, Eyal Edri wrote: >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; To: >>> infra(a)ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:31:41 PM >>> Subject: Re: Infrastructure for Jenkins >>> On 07/12/2012 05:57 AM, Jabs, Joachim wrote: >>>>> Hi Guys, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> as previously offered: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Im willing to provide you guys infrastructure for >>>>> Jenkins. Im currently trying out getting oVirt running on >>>>> a cluster (we have 192 Cores and 3TB RAM aviable) for >>>>> providing help with problems around ovirt that might >>>>> arise. >>>>> >>>>> The Cluster is not commercially used (Not right now) and >>>>> for me its also a good opportunity to learn about ovirt >>>>> and also about hosting VM related infrastructure. This >>>>> will also be a test for stability and maintainability >>>>> around the hardware used. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> If you guys sum up what you need, I think I might be able >>>>> to do something for you there. If you have any questions >>>>> regarding the offer, just ask. Hey, thanks for following. This is a great offer, +1 from me. Ewoud, Eyal (& others?) - what does Joachim need to do? Is this a good place to start? -- >>> >>> This is an excellent offer and opportunity. Since we're >>> talking about VMs, we can start with basic hardware spec and >>> increase it after we'll see the bottle necks in real time. >>> >>> I would start with 3 VMs each running 16GB RAM, 200GB DISK, >>> 32 GB SWAP, each with 4/8 cores each. >>> >>> Itamar, mburns -> any recommendation on how many VMs per >>> hardware node should we use? >>> >> >> considering the workload, i'd start with not overcomitting >> resources, and later analyzing behavior > Agree with Itamar. I'd also consider having a vm or 2 that are > running various target distros where we can build packages for > different distros.

> Also, 200GB disk seems a bit excessive to me. Since this is > running on oVirt, maybe a thin provisioned disk would be a good > choice. The slaves generally don't need as much disk.

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