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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).

Speaking experience

Speaker

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  Lance Albertson

  OSU Open Source Lab
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  Biography

  Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab and has been involved with the Gentoo Linux project as a developer and package maintainer since 2003. Since joining the OSUOSL in 2007, Lance has managed all of the hosting activities that the OSL provides for nearly 160 high-profile open source projects. He was recently promoted to Director in early 2013 after being the Lead Systems Administration and Architect since 2007.

  Prior to joining the OSUOSL, Lance was a UNIX Administrator for the Enterprise Server Technologies group at Kansas State University. Lance prepared for life as a career systems administrator by grappling with natural systems first, joining his father near Hiawatha, Kansas on the family farm growing corn and soybeans.

  In his free time he helps organize Beaver BarCamp and plays trumpet in a local jazz group The Infallible Collective. He holds a B.A. in Agriculture Technology Management from Kansas State University, where he minored in Agronomy and Computer Science.

  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