[one-users] IBM Blade configuration for openebula cloud

[Hans-Joachim Ehlers]

> are budget is tight

With 24 * 256 GB SSD disks. .....

In anyway. OpenNebula is a Management System which supports a wide range of underlying "Cluster / Virtual System" implementations and does not care much about the underlying hardware.

So its up to you to decide if you will use KVM,XEN, iSCSI, native FC, NPIV , NFS, Cluster FS or what so ever.
After you made that decision you could check if it is supported by ONE or not.
...

All imho 
Hajo ( Not a ONE user right now )


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From: users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of Branko Tanovic
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 1:59 PM
To: users at lists.opennebula.org
Subject: [one-users] IBM Blade configuration for openebula cloud

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