Kevan Miller wrote:
Has anybody talked to Infra about virtualization environments,
restrictions, guidance?
I exchanged some emails with Justin Erenkrantz and asked about the VM
issue. He mentioned that they had VMWare Workstation on one machine.
In general, I have the impression that they aren't as concerned about
the VM images/environment if we are controlling the machines. However,
I suspect we'll get a better feel for that once we submit a request and
see their response.
Only 4 VM images? With an 8 core, I thought we'd try to allocate a VM
per core...
I thought about one per core but ended up with 2 just in case we need it
for other related activities. This was also in line with what Matt was
recommending. If we increase the # of VMs we would also need to up the
memory and possibly diskspace and that really started to look excessive
to me. I was just trying to give a high level description of our plans
for the machines. I don't think this limits us to just 4 VMs. Perhaps
instead of requesting additional machines later on we could add any
additional resources to get more VMs active on the first 2 machines.
--kevan
On May 19, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Joe Bohn wrote:
It appears that the discussion has died down on this topic. Here is
the latest update with some minor changes based upon Donald's
questions. I plan to send this on to the PMC in the next hour or so
... so please speak up if you think of anything additional.
Thank you,
Joe
Rationale:
The Apache Geronimo community has a need to support the execution and
sharing of results from Sun certification tests (cts) which are
necessary gain JavaEE5 certification compliance. This information is
only available to those Geronimo committers that have signed the Sun
NDA and other Apache committers that have signed an NDA and gained
approval of the Apache Geronimo PMC. As such, this is becoming a
resource for not only the Apache Geronimo but also other ASF projects.
In the past these resource intensive tests have been run on private
machines by individuals. As more people become involved with Apache
Geronimo and related projects, it is becoming obvious that we need a
central system to run and share the results of these tests.
Request:
To fulfill this requirement, the Apache Geronimo PMC is requesting the
ASF infrastructure team to provide and host machines that can be used
for this purpose. Initially, we would like to request two (2)
machines that meet (as closely as possible) the specification below.
However, we can see the need for 2 additional machines in the not too
distant future.
Machine specs:
- 8 core (two 3.0 GHz quad-core)
- 16 GB memory
- two 750GB 7200 - rpm SATA 3GB/s disks
- DVD R/W (20x?)
- rack mountable specification to work with ASF infra requirements
- LOM or other features as necessary for ASF infra support
- to be developer managed and maintained by the Apache Geronimo Team
- Apache Geronimo would assume all responsibility for:
- configuration
- backup/recovery
- secure access
- Strictly limited to those Apache Geronimo committers with
NDAs on file or additional Apache committers with NDAs and approved by
Geronimo PMC.
- full, admin access would be granted to ASF infra with reboot
directions
- At least 2 active Apache Geronimo committers (with NDA
authorization) would identified to manage the machines.
- Running Linux with something like Xen for 4 VM images per machine
- We would require both ssh and VNC access to the VMs.
- It is not yet decided if we would use NAT to access the VMs or
public IP addresses. Is there are recommendation from ASF Infra?
- Automation will most likely be added to run builds, execute tests,
and produce reports.
- Capability to manually run tests on demand would also be supported.
