[one-users] IBM Blade configuration for openebula cloud

[Branko Tanovic]

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 
> <mailto: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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