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Introduction
FermiCloud is a private cloud providing Infrastructure-as-a-service
services to Fermilab employees and users. FermiCloud encompasses
the FermiCloud Services, which are a pilot service at this time
available to stakeholders of the project, and the FermiCloud Project
which continues to investigate and develop cloud technology to
come up with a combination of open-source services which is usable and
reliable.
FermiCloud Services
As of October 1, 2010, FermiCloud Services are now officially available
as a pilot service. All current users of the pilot service are
using our OpenNebula deployment, although we still have a Nimbus
installation available as well.
We have nine of our production machines running the OpenNebula
system and seven running the Nimbus system, with the balance of
machines reserved for the Grid Storage Evaluation project which is
still ongoing and is a hardware-contributing stakeholder to FermiCloud.
Virtual machine with variable public IP
You can launch a virtual machine at your command and it
will come up with a publicly addressible IP which is one of a pre-set
list of IP's fermicloud001-fermicloud060. Automatic script will
fetch the kerberos keytab and host certificate (if applicable)
so you will be able to log in as non-privileged user or as root
via kerberos ssh. This is currently available on the OpenNebula system.
Virtual machine with fixed public IP
You can launch a standard virtual machine image. By means of attaching
a small .iso image at launch time we can use scripts to contextualize
the system IP to a fixed value and send the appropriate system-dependent
files along with it. This is available on the OpenNebula cluster.
You must have authorization in advance to get the static IP created.
Once you have the authorization, follow the instructions here
Virtual machine with private IP optionally routable to public IP
Please consult FermiCloud services if you need this feature, which is
an emulation of the "Elastic IP" service of EC2.
Virtual machine with public and private IP
It is possible to launch a virtual machine with both public
and private IP, see the OpenNebula instructions below.
Coordinated cluster of virtual machines with one public/private and the rest private-only.
We have a sample cluster of one public-private and several private-only
virtual machines running on the OpenNebula cluster right now. At the
moment some administration intervention is necessary to create a dedicated
private subnet for these clusters when they are requested.
Acceptable use policy
The Fermilab Policy on Computing applies to virtual machines on FermiCloud
as it does for any other machines on site. Currently the base FermiCloud
infrastructure operates under the Open Science Enclave policy and so virtual
machines installed on the cloud need to do so as well. This means that
only supported versions of Fermilab-supported operating systems (Sci. Linux Fermi LTS4, Sci. Linux Fermi 5, Fermi STS, and Windows) can
be run on the cloud, that patch levels and kernels must be kept up to date,
and all policies on restricted network services apply. Requests for waivers
must be placed with the CSEXEC. FermiCloud is, at the moment, a resource for
Fermilab employees and users only.
Service level agreement
Users of FermiCloud agree that FermiCloud is a pilot service. Due to
rapid software evolution, requirements for patching, and stability issues
in experimental software, restart of the cloud management software and
the virtual machines may happen at any time without notice. OpenNebula
provides options to have the contents of your virtual machine
saved automatically if that should happen. Details are in the
documentation below. We will attempt to notify users on the
cloud in advance of a reboot. Problems in launching a virtual
machine or in logging into a virtual machine will be supported
on a best-effort basis.
The FermiCloud Project
The FermiCloud Project is responsible for technology evaluation
and design of FermiCloud. A report, currently will soon be available
in docdb on the results of our evaluation and design phase. We expect
to release our CHEP poster next week as well, as well as our
year two program of work shortly.
Meeting schedule
Every Tuesday from 11AM to 12 PM, Wilson Hall 5 West,
Meeting phone-in ID ESNET 1-510-665-5437 meeting ID CLOUD 25683.
Link to Project document
Docdb document 3302
Link to OpenNebula User Document
OpenNebula User Doc
FermiCloud Machine Organization
FermiCloud Machine Organization
New production hardware
New production hardware arrived on May 18, 2010
- Koi Computers
- 2U case
- Supermicro X8DT3 motherboard
- 2 Intel E5640 "Westmere" processors, quad core.
- 24 GB RAM
- 2 x 300GB 15K rpm SAS disk
- 6 x 2TB 7.2K rpm SATA disk
- LSI 1078 RAID controller (6 SATA drives in RAID5).
- Infiniband--"ConnectX-2" infiniband card
- public 1gb ethernet
- private 1gb ethernet
We have 23 of the above machines. Allocation of production hardware is as follows:
- Eucalyptus-KVM: fcl001 head node, fcl014-016 VM hosts.
- OpenNebula: fcl002 head node, fcl002-009 VM hosts fcl010--single ONE xen host
- Eucalyptus-Xen-managed network: fcl018 head node, fcl017, fcl019 VM Hosts
- Grid Storage Investigations: fcl020-023.
- (proposed) fcl001-> nimbus HN, fcl011-016 Nimbus VM hosts. fcl016 single Nimbus Xen host.
Usage Plots
Publications and talks