http://opensource.hp.com/LCA09/virtminiconf/program
2009 Virtualization and
Management Miniconf
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
| Time |
Talk |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Introduction and housekeeping - Aland Adams |
| 9:30 - 10:20 |
Creating a High Availability Environment for Xen
Virtual Machines Part 1 - Sander van Vugt
In this session you'll learn how to ensure high availability for Xen
virtual machines using all Open Source software. You will learn how to
configure Heartbeat high availability clustering and the OCFS2 file
system in order to maximize the availability of Xen virtual machines.
This 2-part session will be al least 75% live demo, with lots of time
for questions.
|
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Morning Tea |
| 10:40 - 11:30 |
Creating a High Availability Environment for Xen
Virtual Machines Part 2 - Sander van Vugt
In this session you'll learn how to ensure high availability for Xen
virtual machines using all Open Source software. You will learn how to
configure Heartbeat high availability clustering and the OCFS2 file
system in order to maximize the availability of Xen virtual machines.
This 2-part session will be al least 75% live demo, with lots of time
for questions.
|
| 11:40 - 12:30 |
Oracle VM and Enterprise Life-Cycle Management
- Avi Miller
Virtualisation is a hot topic in the industry today. There are many
offerings and players in the virtualisation market. This presentation
takes a look at Oracle's virtualisation offering, Oracle VM, and the
value proposition it has over competitors including how it fits into
Oracles Unbreakable Linux program. The talk will also discuss the
management capabilities and features of Oracle Enterprise Linux and
Oracle VM via the Oracle Enterprise Manager management suite and the
Management pack for Linux.
|
| 12:30 - 13:50 |
Lunch |
| 13:50 - 14:40 |
Cloud Computing with openQRM - Matt
Rechenburg
In 2008 openQRM, the
open-source data-center management and cloud-computing platform, made a
transition from
commercial to
open-source
java to php
complex to
generic
heavy to light
...
The
new designed architecture of the openQRM-server is based on the concept
of the strict separation of hardware (physical and/or virtual) and
software (the OS-stack plus applications). The mechanisms and
functionalities of openQRM were re-implemented in a very generic way
and are already outperforming its previous java-version. Version 4
supports VMware ESX, VMware-server, Xen, Citrix, KVM and Linux-VServer
as resource provider.
By
enabling the cloud-plugin openQRM out-of-the-box provides a private
Cloud-Computing environment with an external provisioning portal.
Requests to the openQRM-Cloud are handled fully automatically and can
be distributed to different types of hypervisors.
The
presentation points out how the open-source community and the openQRM
team took over the previous commercial product to a now, fully
open-source project. It describes how the project learnt from the
community which resulted in a complete re-write and port from Java to
PHP. This talk explains why open-source is serious for Cloud-Computing
and Virtualization to escape vendor locks. The talk will end up with a
live-demonstration of private Cloud-computing.
|
14:50 - 15:40
|
VESPER (Virtual Embraced Space ProbER) -- Can
SystemTap bridge host and guests? - Sungho Kim
This presentation describes VESPER, the framework that gathers guest
information effectively on the virtualized environment. VESPER is
designed to provide evaluation criterion of system reliability and
serviceability, used in decision-making by cluster manager.
In
general, the manager exchanges messages between underlying nodes to
check their health through network periodically. In this way, however,
the manager cannot find out fault immediately neither to get detailed
information about faulty nodes.
To address those problems, VESPER injects Kprobes to guest to gather
detailed information on guest health, from host. By communicating with
guest in Kprobes through VMM infrastructure, VESPER can provide the
manager with prompt fault detection in much faster way and with failure
analysis facility.
In addition, VESPER can invoke SystemTap to build and handle Kprobes
easily. By extending SystemTap to the virtualized environment, VESPER
will make suggestions on probing technology bridging host and guests as
well.
In this presentation, we explain how VESPER injects Kprobes into guest
and how VESPER cooperates with the cluster manager to improve upon
fail-over latency and failure analysis facility with use cases on
Heartbeat cluster. Furthermore, we focus on the mechanism of VESPER to
extend SystemTap facility to the virtualized environment to improve on
its usability.
|
| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
| 16:00 - 16:50 |
Linux and Virtualization Management tools at HP
- Aland Adams
After a couple years hosting the Virtualization mini-conf, Aland has
decided to take the opportunity to describe a couple of HP management
tools. One, LinuxCOE, was originally developed internally at HP to
deploy Linux environments and is now an open source project; and the
second called ICE-Linux, a mixture of open source and proprietary tools
which provides deployment, monitoring and management of Linux
environments.
|
| 17:00 - 17:50 |
Lightning Talks |
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