Dell Customer Communication I have a customer who wants to see the following before purchasing a cluster. Does anyone have a cluster that we could remote into to show off the Dell crowbar stack? Thanks for any help! I will be doing this demo on the 2nd of April.
Computation & Storage - 1 hour
1. Compute Node
a. Add a Node
i. Demo
adding a node to cluster
b. Node Monitoring
i. Hardware
health monitoring
ii.
Performance monitoring
c. Fail a Node
i. Unplug a
compute node
d. Out of band management for remote console, reboot, etc.
e. Replace a Node
2. Storage Node
a. Add a Node
i. Demo
adding a storage node to cluster
b. Storage Node Monitoring
i. Hardware
Health Monitoring
ii. Storage
Health Monitoring
iii.
Performance monitoring
c. Fail a Node
i. Unplug a
storage node
d. Replace a Node
e. Out of band management for remote console, reboot, etc.
f. Mount the storage on a compute node and copy data to/from the storage
g. Copy data to/from the storage from a desktop/laptop
3. Question & Answer (minimum 15 minutes)
Virtualization - 1.25 Hour
1. Administrative interface
a. Add a new Compute Node to be used by virtualization
b. Add additional block storage for VMs
c. Deploy a set of compute VMs with a head VM to the compute nodes.
i. SSH into
the head VM and run the HPC Challenge benchmarking tool version 1.4.3
(hpcc-1.4.3). Link to tool: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc/
ii. Remote
Console into VM to oversee boot
d. Vim Image Management
i. Add a
new VM image template
ii. Clone a VM
iii. Save a VM
as an image template
e. Manage resource pools
i. Add/Edit
a pool of compute/storage resources
f. Manage users and user access to resources
i.
Add/Remove a user
ii.
Add/Remove user access to a resource pool
g. Network configuration interface for managing the cluster network(s)
2. Monitoring
a. VM health monitoring
b. Cluster health monitoring
c. Performance monitoring (hosts and guests)
3. Failure Demo
a. Fail (unplug) a compute node with running VMs
b. Fail (unplug) a storage node with active data transfer happening
4. Self-provisioning interface for users (if available)
a. Add a new VM image template
b. Deploy compute VMs with a head VM
i. SSH into
the head node and run a job
ii. Transfer
data to/from working storage
c. Demo remote console access to VM
5. Question & Answer (minimum 15 minutes)
Networking - 45 Minutes
1. Add Network Switch
a. If there are different classes of switch, show adding all types (leaf
and spine for example)
2. Network Monitoring
a. Hardware health monitoring
b. Network bandwidth monitoring
c. Demo network saturation with a synthetic test
3. Virtualization Integration
a. Demonstration of SDN capabilities
4. Failure Demo
a. Fail a port (if possible to simulate)
b. Fail a switch (unplug a switch)
c. If there are different classes of switch, show the failure of both
(leaf and spine for example)
Thanks
Sterling
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Sterling Fuhriman | Enterprise Solutions Consultant for
Education/Government/Healthcare - CO, MT, WY
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