[libreoffice-website] Re: Crashtest VM Host
Hi Alex, On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 12:23 +0100, Alexander Werner wrote: the crashtest VM host has arrived. Great news. At the moment the setup is delayed as we ran into a problem with glusterfs: ... This shows up during manual gluster setup as well as automatic setup by oVirt. I will try to handle this by the end of next week, if that is not successful I will fallback to local storage which has some disadvantages as the host is then not able to increase the HA of the overall platform. JFYI - all of the work we do inside the main VM is throw-away work - we only are interested in the output of it. Worse - there are tens of GB of it generated all the time - so mirroring that across a cluster sounds like it would bring only pain aggravation =) Is there some way we can have the basic VM / OS image on a HA / mirrored image - but ensure that the scratch data we build, and throw away repeatedly in really huge bulk doesn't end up just screwing up the cluster performance ;-) ie. for now local storage sounds just fine to me ;-) Thanks ! Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: website+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-website] Re: Crashtest VM Host
Hi, Am 09.01.2015 um 18:46 schrieb Markus Mohrhard markus.mohrh...@googlemail.com: JFYI - all of the work we do inside the main VM is throw-away work - we only are interested in the output of it. Worse - there are tens of GB of it generated all the time - so mirroring that across a cluster sounds like it would bring only pain aggravation =) Is there some way we can have the basic VM / OS image on a HA / mirrored image - but ensure that the scratch data we build, and throw away repeatedly in really huge bulk doesn't end up just screwing up the cluster performance ;-) ie. for now local storage sounds just fine to me ;-) for the crashtesting itself nothing else than local storage was ever considered. But i want to add the host to the same cluster to have 3 hosts in the cluster, so that we can enable server-quorum with gluster to avoid split-brain situations. So: Store Crashtest VMs in local storage, but also increase the stability of the whole platform. Even VMs with multiple HDDs with some with HA and some without can be built. Alex -- Alexander Werner a...@documentfoundation.org Admin Team of The Document Foundation The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: website+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-website] Re: Crashtest VM Host
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 18:51 +0100, Alexander Werner wrote: for the crashtesting itself nothing else than local storage was ever considered. But i want to add the host to the same cluster to have 3 hosts in the cluster, so that we can enable server-quorum with gluster to avoid split-brain situations. Fair enough. So: Store Crashtest VMs in local storage, but also increase the stability of the whole platform. Even VMs with multiple HDDs with some with HA and some without can be built. Great; thanks ! Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: website+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-website] Re: Crashtest VM Host
Hey, On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@collabora.com wrote: Hi Alex, On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 12:23 +0100, Alexander Werner wrote: the crashtest VM host has arrived. Great news. At the moment the setup is delayed as we ran into a problem with glusterfs: ... This shows up during manual gluster setup as well as automatic setup by oVirt. I will try to handle this by the end of next week, if that is not successful I will fallback to local storage which has some disadvantages as the host is then not able to increase the HA of the overall platform. JFYI - all of the work we do inside the main VM is throw-away work - we only are interested in the output of it. Worse - there are tens of GB of it generated all the time - so mirroring that across a cluster sounds like it would bring only pain aggravation =) Is there some way we can have the basic VM / OS image on a HA / mirrored image - but ensure that the scratch data we build, and throw away repeatedly in really huge bulk doesn't end up just screwing up the cluster performance ;-) ie. for now local storage sounds just fine to me ;-) And to add to that. Actually the whole VM does not need a backup. The scripts are all in dev-tools and the files are either stored on gimli (the ones that need backup) or can be downloaded by a script. As Michael mentioned there are many generated files in the VM and we are generating each day around 120 GB of data that is deleted after the run. The whole Vm consists currently of: * source code for different projects * test files (backup exists either as part of various bug trackers or on gimli) * the logs (the official and public version is on gimli) * some stuff for msan and asan builds * the sripts (are all from the dev-tools repo) So there is nothing that needs a backup as part of the VM. Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: website+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
