-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: <snip> > I have some idle bandwidth. Enough for testing and/or low volume usage. > I'm not sure how much hardware has to be thrown at this - seems that if > it can run a Ubuntu Server install at a reasonable rate, it should be > sufficient. In that case, yes, I do have some hardware I can make use > of - though I'm probably looking at a new server soonish anyways. > Part of the "cloud" is provisioning servers and services as needed. To really test this thing we should have 3 or 4 beefy machines so that we can throw a lot of VMs at it.
>> I was thinking of doing a test run with Eucalptus before I have to >> deploy it as a traditional VMWare server. Perhaps this could be a >> weekend workshop? Between the two of us we can handle the hardware and >> networking requirements, we would just need the space and power to work. > > I'm sure we can find/arrange space. But I'm not sure if "workshop" is > quite the right term. :) I think it would be more of a work effort - > i.e. our effort to try to get the thing running. But that seems like a > cool sort of mentoring/knowledge sharing session. > I don't care what it is called or how it is structured. I will leave those choices to others. >> Thoughts? Anyone else interested in taking part? > > I can spearhead this (coordinate with the exec, book rooms, etc) if > there is enough interest. > I was thinking of having someone arrange a weekend access to a space. If the past is any indication, one day would be used to get this running, and another to make this do something interesting. So some place we can safely leave the gear over night. Just my thoughts. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqmQ7UACgkQwRXgH3rKGfOZTACgoKO/tm+4lL3YAX8g9An1tbrt o3sAn3HfMlOqu5H9UU6SX4uNaCEqhALM =TXSZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
