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Description

Whether you need a small yet scalable development virtual machine (VM) environment or need to deploy a large cloud production environment, you need a tool that is easy to use, deploy, and maintain. Ganeti is a clustered virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM. It is similar to libvirt in many aspects, but different in others such as its built-in cluster support using DRBD.

The focus will be on a use case at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) where we were faced with scaling, performance, and reliability issues with our existing VM infrastructure. We’ll cover the overall design and features of Ganeti along with the basics of installing it. Additionally we’ll walk through some of the basic operations you may encounter (deployment, failover, expansion, hardware failures, etc).

Tags

virtualization, linux, cloud computing, KVM, xen, operating systems

Speaker

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  Lance Albertson

  OSU Open Source Lab
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  Biography

  Lance is the Lead Systems Administrator/Architect for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL) and a Gentoo Linux Developer. He joined the Gentoo Linux project in 2003 and have been involved in managing their infrastructure and maintaining about a dozen or so packages in portage. Lance manages all of the hosting activities that the OSL provides for the open source community including projects such as Kernel.org, Drupal, Apache Software Foundation, and many many more. Lance has been at the OSL since 2007.

  Previously Lance was a UNIX Administrator for the Enterprise Server Technologies group at Kansas State University helping maintain campus email along with other various tasks. Previous to that, he worked with his dad near Hiawatha, Kansas on the family farm growing corn and soybeans.

  In his free time he helps organize the Corvallis Beer and Blog and plays trumpet in a local jazz group The Infallible Collective.

  Sessions

  • * Creating a low-cost clustered virtualization environment using Ganeti
    • Title: Creating a low-cost clustered virtualization environment using Ganeti
    • Track: Chemistry
    • Room: Fremont
    • Time: 4:45 – 5:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      Creating a redundant yet scalable virtualization environment is often difficult and expensive. Ganeti is an open source project which offers many solutions to simplify a clustered virtual machine environment while enabling you to use low cost hardware. This session will walk through Ganeti covering its basic design goals/features, installation architecture, and production implementation.

    • Speakers: Lance Albertson