Re: Committee to Sort through CCC Presentation Submissions

[manas biswal]

Good Day

Could you please elaborate bit more
As earlier I was working with Apache CloudStack

Currently I am working with OpenStack for NFV deployment, Telco
acceleration etc.



On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:28 AM, Rafael Weingärtner <
rafaelweingart...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think everybody that “raised their hands here” already signed up to
> review.
>
> Mike, what about if we only gathered the reviews from Apache main review
> system, and then we use that to decide which presentations will get in
> CloudStack tracks? Then, we reduce the work on our side (we also remove
> bias…). I do believe that the review from other peers from Apache community
> (even the one outside from our small community) will be fair and technical
> (meaning, without passion and or favoritism).
>
> Having said that, I think we only need a small group of PMCs to gather the
> results and out of the best ranked proposals, we pick the ones to our
> tracks.
>
> What do you (Mike) and others think?
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 5:07 PM, Tutkowski, Mike  >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ron,
> >
> > I don’t actually have insight into how many people have currently signed
> > up online to be CFP reviewers for ApacheCon. At present, I’m only aware
> of
> > those who have responded to this e-mail chain.
> >
> > We should be able to find out more in the coming weeks. We’re still quite
> > early in the process.
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback,
> > Mike
> >
> > On 4/1/18, 9:18 AM, "Ron Wheeler" 
> wrote:
> >
> > How many people have signed up to be reviewers?
> >
> > I don't think that scheduling is part of the review process and that
> > can
> > be done by the person/team "organizing" ApacheCon on behalf of the
> PMC.
> >
> > To me review is looking at content for
> > - relevance
> > - quality of the presentations (suggest fixes to content, English,
> > graphics, etc.)
> > This should result in a consensus score
> > - Perfect - ready for prime time
> > - Needs minor changes as documented by the reviewers
> > - Great topic but needs more work - perhaps a reviewer could
> volunteer
> > to work with the presenter to get it ready if chosen
> > - Not recommended for topic or content reasons
> >
> > The reviewers could also make non-binding recommendations about the
> > balance between topics - marketing(why Cloudstack),
> > Operations/implementation, Technical details, Roadmap, etc. based on
> > what they have seen.
> >
> > This should be used by the organizers to make the choices and
> organize
> > the program.
> > The organizers have the final say on the choice of presentations and
> > schedule
> >
> > Reviewers are there to help the process not control it.
> >
> > I would be worried that you do not have enough reviewers rather than
> > too
> > many.
> > Then the work falls on the PMC and organizers.
> >
> > When planning meetings, I would recommend that you clearly separate
> the
> > roles and only invite the reviewers to the meetings about review. Get
> > the list of presentation to present to the reviewers and decide if
> > there
> > are any instructions that you want to give to reviewers.
> > I would recommend that you keep the organizing group small.
> Membership
> > should be set by the PMC and should be people that are committed to
> the
> > ApacheCon project and have the time. The committee can request help
> for
> > specific tasks from others in the community who are not on the
> > committee.
> >
> > I would also recommend that organizers do not do reviews. They should
> > read the finalists but if they do reviews, there may be a suggestion
> of
> > favouring presentations that they reviewed. It also ensures that the
> > organizers are not getting heat from rejected presenters - "it is the
> > reviewers fault you did not get selected".
> >
> > My advice is to get as many reviewers as you can so that no one is
> > essential and each reviewer has a limited number of presentations to
> > review but each presentation gets reviewed by multiple people. Also
> > bear
> > in mind that not all reviewers have the same ability to review each
> > presentation.
> > Reviews should be anonymous and only the summary comments given to
> the
> > presenter. Reviewers of a presentation should be able to discuss the
> > presentation during the review to make sure that reviewers do not
> feel
> > isolated or get lost when they hit content that they don't understand
> > fully.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> > On 01/04/2018 12:20 AM, Tutkowski, Mike wrote:
> > > Thanks for the feedback, Will!
> > >
> > > I agree with the approach you outlined.
> > >
> > > Thanks for being so involved in the process! Let’s chat with Giles
> > once he’s back to see if we can get your questions answered.
> > >
> > 

Re: Research areas in cloudstack

[manas biswal]

Hi Jitendra

why dont you go for Auto scaling in Cloudstack. Both horizontal and
vertical scaling.
Currently scale-out(horizontal scale) is supported by third party
tools like Scalr .

We are also doing some RD in these areas.



On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, sebgoa run...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Ignazio Cassano ignaziocass...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all, my suggestion concerns Desktop as a Service (DaaS) based on linux
 kvm and Spice.
 Spice protocol is opensource and could be included to expand cloudstack
 features.
 Ignazio

 That could be very interesting




 2014/1/6 manas biswal manas.biswa...@gmail.com

 virtual disk inter- operability , may be another area, means study
 about different disk formats that CloudStack is supporting.
 like qucow, vhd etc.

 On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:14 PM, sebgoa run...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:33 AM, jitendra shelar 
 jitendra.shelar...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,

 I am pursuing with my MS at BITs, Pilani, India.
 I am planning of doing my final sem project in cloudstack.

 Can somebody please suggest me some research areas in cloudstack?


 Hi Jitendra, it depends what you mean by 'research', but there are a lot
 of interesting projects to do IMHO:

 -Integration testing: Develop the Marvin framework and write tests to
 continuously check the support for CloudStack clients (libcloud, AWS,
 jclouds etc) this would require learning jenkins, understanding continuous
 integration pipeline and finding ways to tests these clients automatically.

 -Investigating Xen GPU passthrough and setting up a demo where Xen
 hypervisors are tagged specifically for VM that need access to GPUs, run
 CUDA code on them…

 -Investigate Mesos framework and develop deployments scripts to
 automatically deploy Mesos on a CloudStack infrastructure, the end goal
 being to demo running mixed workloads (MPI, hadoop, spark) on a virtualized
 infrastructure in cloudstack

 -Docker integration/use, a few of us have been talking about this and
 you would be likely to get some help from the community.

 -Review of configuration management systems (chef, puppet, ansible,
 saltstack...) develop recipes for deploying cloudstack for all systems
 (some already exist), from source and from packages. Include management
 server and hypervisor setup. Ideally had a wrapper to link to the
 hypervisor and the mgt server together automatically using Marvin.

 -Investigate PaaS solutions and their integration with CloudStack.
 Software like cloudify, openshift, cloudfoundry, appscale…some of it is
 already done but a thorough analysis of pros and cons as well as code
 writing to finish the integration of some would be great.

 You can also check out JIRA:
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK , browse through the
 long list of 'bugs' and pick what seems interesting to you.

 This all depends of course on your skills and interest, are you more of
 a java developer or a sys admin ? Are you interested in integration with
 third party software or core java development ?

 Cheers,

 -sebastien

 Thanks,
 Jitendra




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 Thanks and Regards
 Manas Ranjan Biswal
 Research Scientist,
 OpenTechnology Center,
 NIC,Chennai
 08015698191,9776349149
 manas.bis...@nic.in





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Re: Regarding cloudstack automation

[manas biswal]

Dear Umesh

As you have mentioned about automation, is  it worth talking about
scaling.
which the cloud is really meant for. Basically there are 2 types of scaling
scale up
and scale out ( or horizontal and vertical scaling) . scale up means you
are making automatic up and
down the vm resources according to the requirement. i.e for example when
your machine need extra memory
it will attach automatically. In scale up scheme the single machine is
scaled. In horizontal scaling
-- another instance of same type will be up to balance he load ( as incase
of http). Though Cloudstack provides
API for scaling, you can write your own autoscaling script. As told by
Apache, they may add this in future release.for
time being it is supported by Netscaler ( Hardware) provided by Citrix. But
there are some third party tools
which can do this. you can se scalr https://github.com/Scalr/  and
http://www.scalr.com/
Cloudmonkey is the commandline interface for CloudStack, it is not a
automation tool.  But you can use the API acces method used in Cloudmonkey
for writting your own plugin for CloudStack

Hope you understand



On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:58 AM, umesh kute umeshvk...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,
 Good morning !!!
 I am working as QA engineer and I am new to the cloudstack community.
 We have started using cloudstack and deployed it in our infrastructure.

 Can somebody please help me in identifying the good automation
 framework/tool/anything? The main intention is we want to automate the
 infrastructure validation related cases (for e.g. create/update/delete
 cases for instances, project, network, etc...)

 It would be good if you can help in identifying it.

 Please note: I have gone through cloudmonkey. But i haven't found much help
 on it. May be i need to search a bit more.. I am also going through the
 marvin and planning to setup it. If apart from these two, if anyone has
 different view please suggest.

 Also, if somebody has any pointers on cloudmonkey and marvin or any more
 info on this (like, if it would suffice the infrastructure validation
 related cases i mentioned above) any pros/cons would really be helpful for
 me...

 Appreciate any help on this and looking forward for the response on this!!!

 Thanks and Regards
 -- Umesh Kute




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Re: [EVENT] Announcing Apache CloudStack Bangalore December Meetup

[manas biswal]

Please let me know the date and venue as soon as you update with.

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Radhika Puthiyetath
radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com wrote:
 Please RSVP at http://t.co/Iift0ehUl1


 -Original Message-
 From: Radhika Puthiyetath [mailto:radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com]
 Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 12:08 PM
 To: d...@cloudstack.apache.org; market...@cloudstack.apache.org; 
 CloudStack-Users
 Subject: [EVENT] Announcing Apache CloudStack Bangalore December Meetup

 Hi All,

 Agenda is ready for the last Meetup of the year 2013.  We have the lady 
 battalion of Citrix ready to speak about Apache CloudStack. To give them a 
 company, Iliyas Shirol, Cloud/BigData Evangelist at InMobi has come up an 
 interesting topic.

 The agenda is

 5.00 - 5.30 PM

 Automation Using Marvin Framework
 -Sowmya Krishnan, Apache CloudStack Committer

 5.30 - 6.15 PM

 Troubleshooting Apache CloudStack
 -Sailaja Mada and Likitha Shetty, Apache CloudStack Committers

 6.20 to 7.15 PM

 Nexenta Powered Apache CloudStack
 -Iliyas Shirol, Cloud/BigData Evangelist, InMobi

 We have not yet finalized the venue; if you are interested to host this event 
 at your premises for free, please get in touch with one of the organizers.

 Looking forward to meeting you all

 -Radhika




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Re: Image format supported by cloudstack

[manas biswal]

Good day. The image formats depends upon the Hypervisor you used.
If it is XenServer/XCP then the image format is VHD and for KVM it is
.img . It is nothing to do with Cloudstack. As XenServer/XCP keeping
the virtual harddisks in .VHD format in attached NFS repository. Also
in CloudStack for primary and secondary storage NFS storage has been
used.You can import an existing .vhd file to CloudStack. Normally .VHD
files are bigger than the actual Operting System (OS) space. As VHD is
the complete harddisk that includes both OS spcae + empty space.

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Sanjay Tripathi
sanjay.tripa...@citrix.com wrote:
 Answers inline.

 -Original Message-
 From: jitendra shelar [mailto:jitendra.shelar...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:04 PM
 To: d...@cloudstack.apache.org; users@cloudstack.apache.org; issues-
 subscr...@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: Image format supported by cloudstack

 Hi Team,

 Can somebody please tell me which all image format are supported by the
 cloudstack?

 From the CloudStack UI, you can get the guest OS list in register 
 template/register ISO form page, or try the API listOsTypes to get the 
 complete list.


 And do cloudstack (version 4.0 and 4.2)  provide support for windows 7,
 Windows 2012, Ubuntu 12 and Ubuntu 13 ISO?

 CloudStack supports all the mentioned guest OS. Only for Ubuntu 13, you need 
 to register the template/ISO under Other Ubuntu guest OS type.



 Thanks,
 Jitendra

 --Sanjay




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