[one-users] IBM Blade configuration for openebula cloud

[jan horacek]

Hi Branko,

i'm not sure if it helps, but i have working production environment with
customized drivers on SAS shared block storage, it should be similar to
what you get with FC.
In short: shared block device containing one volumegroup, with multiple
logical volumes, one for every registered volume. GFS2 for the shared
storage.

My production is curently on ONE 3.4, drivers are public here:
https://github.com/jhrcz/opennebula-tm-gfs2clvm/tree/gfs2clvm-one-3.4

I'm currently working on bringing it to 3.8, based on the uptodate lvm
drivers and on the update to my driver from Bill Cambell. His customization
to bring my older driver for ONE 3.6 is public here:
https://github.com/billtcampbell/opennebula-tm-gfs2clvm

Regards,
J.Horacek

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Branko Tanovic <
branko.tanovic at metropolitan.ac.rs> wrote:

>  Thank you for your replies .
>
> I would be more than welcome to share the ,speed and testing results  on
> the system,
> currently we are testing OpenNebula on smaller system and with software
> iSCSI .
> One thing we really like is ability to tune system by are need which very
> neat and opennebula
> just does that , many thanks to developers of OpenNebula.
>
> One think that worries me is Fiber Channel support in OpenNebula I was
> looking for some example implementations of FC and OpenNebula but could not
> find none in
> docs for 3.6  http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.6:sm nothint about
> FC could be found.
> Only thing I could find is 2.0 docs
> http://opennebula.org/documentation:archives:rel2.0:features
> which say is it supports FC.
> Only think I saw is cLVM Jaime Malis and Nicolas Aguis talking about cLVM
> in 3.6.
> Does driver cLVM work now with multiple hosts sharing Fiber Channel
> Storage?  Any experience
>
> / recommendation with FC ?
>
>
>
> On 09/20/2012 10:57 AM, Sándor Guba wrote:
>
> I highly recommend to build a prototype for your system. You can test
> hypervisors, transfer drivers etc on 2-3 computers. OpenNebula drivers are
> written in ruby and bash script that you can customize for your
> environment. Count in that OpenNebula developers are very helpfull :). You
> have a lot of options to fine tune your system. For example I changed the
> image transfer drivers to run on NFS server locally not on the network wich
> doubled the clone speed. If you setup that system I would be glad to hear
> your experiences and speed statistics :).
>
> 2012/9/6 Branko Tanovic <branko.tanovic at metropolitan.ac.rs>
>
>>  Hi,
>> We are small University located in Belgrade, Serbia ,
>> our current information system
>> is created mostly of different hardware manufactures,we use
>> Citrix Xen Server Free Version  primarily for ability to run on
>> bare metal configuration.
>> Recently we are in process of buying IBM Blades servers with StoreWise
>> V7000 and we would like to
>> switch to OpenNebula Cloud , mainly because we use a lot of open source
>> technology and
>> are budget is tight.
>> This is our configuration
>>
>>    IBM BladeCenter 2 x  cpu E5-2640  2x 146GB na 15k, 112GB  DDR3  two
>> 8Gbps FC 7 pcs
>>
>>
>>
>>    IBM Storwize V7000 Control Enclosure 16GB cache, 8 x FC ports, 4
>> iSCSI port, 24
>>  1 pcs
>>   256 GB 2.5-inch SSD HDD 24 pcs
>>   IBM Storwize V7000 expansion enclosure
>>  2 pcs
>>   3TB 3.5 in. 7.2k NL SAS HDD 24 pcs
>>
>>
>> Most of our vms/ applications use tomcat, mysql ,lamp, alfresco dms ,SAP
>> , windows 2008 server.
>>
>>
>>
>> The question is is this configuration good for implementing OpenNebula
>> solution?
>>
>> Can Front-End run virtualized on kvm or xen nodes   ?
>>
>> Does nodes access directly to shared storage iSCSI ?
>>
>>
>> Some remarks,recommendation and experience would be nice.
>>
>>
>> Thank you Very Very much for the help.
>>
>> Branko Tanovic
>>
>>
>>
>>
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