Kick-off meeting for new RackSpace-based hosts

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> To: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> 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. 

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
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