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Creating a Low-Cost Clustered Virtualization Environment Using Ganeti and KVM

Date: 3:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Virtualization
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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. 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. I will focus 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. I'll cover the design and features of Ganeti along with the basics of installing it. Additionally I’ll walk-through some of the basic operations you may encounter (deployment, failures, etc).

People planning to attend this session may also want to see:

» Using KVM as a Transparent Hardware Abstraction Layer  · David Ahern, Cisco

Lance Albertson, OSU Open Source Lab

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.

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