I am not very familiar with OpenStack and the terminology so it's quite
possible I missed it, but the xCAT documentation for OpenStack seemed to
be about deploying into (and setting up your own) completely bare
OpenStack cloud. I'm not looking to have a completely separate cluster.
That can be done somewhat-easily enough by just treating any VM host as
a cloud host and just purchasing/running multiple VMs.
I am hoping to be able to control and deploy additional compute nodes
from a provider's own cloud infrastructure without needing to know the
internals of the infrastructure itself. The cloud nodes would, in a
perfect world, be transparent to the end user and work just as if they
were local compute nodes. Just set, for example, "nodehm.mgt=CloudX",
then "nodeset osimage" and go. Clearly more configuration will have to
come before that but you get the gist. :-)
The VMWare how-to in xCAT is close to what I am trying to achieve.
On 5/5/2014 4:36 PM, John van Ommen wrote:
What about RackSpace? They're OpenStack.
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Russell Jones
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks! That does, a bit. Looking to aim more for deployment into
an already-existing hosted cloud infrastructure as opposed to
having to roll your own :-)
On 5/5/2014 3:58 PM, Ling Gao wrote:
Russel,
I can bring the topic to the team to discuss.
Currently xCAT has a OpenStack baremetal driver that allows you
to deploy baremetal nodes in a OpenStack cloud. You can:
1. register xCAT nodes into OpenStack
2. register xCAT images into OpenStack
3. deploy baremetal node using OpenStack command (nova boot), and
it in turn calls xCAT to deploy the node.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Using_xCAT_in_OpenStack_Baremetal_Node_Deployment
In addition to this, xCAT also has the support to setup OpenStack
cloud.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Deploying_OpenStack
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Ling
From: Russell Jones <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>,
Date: 05/05/2014 04:40 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Cloud bursting
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Sure!
So, for example, Rocks has an "EC2" roll that allegedly allows
you to "deploy" nodes into the Amazon EC2 infrastructure (it's
really an image upload into Amazon's network). There are also
features in the roll that can create tunnels from your EC2
cluster back to your local hardware so that the EC2 nodes can be
part of your private cluster network.
I am curious if there is anything on the roadmap for xCAT to be
able to do something similar. I recognize that there are a whole
lot of other pieces that would need to be figured out to truly
have a useable cluster that also has semi-transparent "cloud"
nodes, but just being able to deploy EC2/Google Cloud/etc nodes
via xCAT commands would be a big step.
Thanks for your help!
On 5/5/2014 3:00 PM, Ling Gao wrote:
Hi Russel,
Can you be more specific on the meaning of "deployment into
any cloud provider's infrastructure" ?
Thanks,
Ling
From: Russell Jones _<[email protected]>_
<mailto:[email protected]>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list _<[email protected]>_
<mailto:[email protected]>,
Date: 05/05/2014 02:56 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] Cloud bursting
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Hi all,
Didn't get a response on my last post for this, so thought I
would reach
out again. We have a customer that is interested in utilizing
xCAT to
deploy and run jobs in a cloud provider of some sort. Does xCAT
support
deployment into any cloud provider's infrastructure?
Thanks!
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