Re: Kick-off meeting for new RackSpace-based hosts

From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 4:41:05 AM Subject: Re: Kick-off meeting for new RackSpace-based hosts On 01/05/2013 08:48 AM, Eyal Edri wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; >> To: "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt; >> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 10:41:45 PM >> Subject: Re: Kick-off meeting for new RackSpace-based hosts >> >> On 01/04/2013 07:23 AM, Mike Burns wrote: >>> On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 16:14 -0500, Eyal Edri wrote: >> >>>> Yes. please send me the call details when you have them. >>>> I believe those servers can be used for: >>>> 1. one or more server to be used as hypervisor to run jenkins >>>> slave vm with multiple os's >>>> 2. one physical server to be used for automatic testing of ovirt >>>> (adding host,etc...) >>> >>> What about backups? Can we host that somewhere there? or do we >>> have >>> somewhere else for storing backups? >> >> Right, this is part of the still-open discussion of how we want to >> use >> all the new hosts. >> >> I wasn't aware it was valuable to have a bare metal host for >> automatic >> testing, but that's not a problem. Could we potentially host VMs >> on >> that >> host, or does it need to be able to be stripped and replaced >> completely >> each time. > > i don't think it will be possible to have a host to run vms and be > used for automatic tests as hypervisor at the same time. > another alternative will be to use nested hosts. > i'm currently in the process of testing it on f17, having bit of > issue with qemu though. > if it will prove working, we can use a nested vm instead of a > bare-metal host to run automation tests. I'm going to take my response back to the "New hosting design" thread, but the tl:dnr version is, maybe we need to have random-useful-VM-hosting at Alter Way and keep the RackSpace-based hosts for i) Jenkins slaves, ii) automated oVirt testing. BTW, how are we running automated testing?

- Karsten > e. > >> >> For backup, I had been thinking of something like this: >> >> * Run Gluster at each site so the storage pool is only pulling >> from >> the >> LAN (or localhost.) >> * Use some type of Gluster mirroring so that each location >> contains a >> backup of the other location. >> >> Anyway, I haven't checked with Glustexperts yet on that scheme, >> but I >> think the basic idea is workable. >> >> In this scenario, one physical host would have 6 to 12 VMs. One VM >> could >> be dedicated to all sorts of cronjobs and batchwork - copying >> built >> RPMs >> from one location to another, backing up files and databases, etc. >> This >> host could be entirely on the private VLAN, connecting to external >> hosts >> with ssh (scp, rsync, tunneling, Ansible, Puppet, whatever) or a >> VPN. >> >> - Karsten >> -- >> Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth >> http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com >> @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Infra mailing list >> Infra(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra >> -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 _______________________________________________ Infra mailing list Infra(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra