Seneca-CD

This page will serve as a table of contents for the Seneca-CD CDOT research project.

People

• Diogo Monteiro and Kieran Sedgwick, supervised by Andrew Smith.

Blog

• http://senecacd.wordpress.com/
• TODO-Andrew: set up a backup in case wordpress.com is not 100% reliable

Bug Tracker

• Waiting to hear back from Jordan about a stable Trac setup

Plan for 2 weeks starting the 29th of October

Everyone

• Paperwork

Researchers

• Verify that the two desktops we start with are working and capable of supporting virtualization.
• Verify two of the network sockets work, and what the IP/subnet/DNS numbers to use are.
• Get setup on the project blog, start posting on it.
• Download and set up the latest CentOS, confirm kvm/libvirt/virt-manager work.
• Figure out what OpenNebula is capable of, how hard it is to set up, perhaps go through one setup.
• Read about iSCSI, check out OpenFiler, hopefully set it up, at least as a test if we don't yet have a dedicated box for the storage.

Andrew

• Get at least two more boxes (better 3).
• Get a KVM switch supporting at least two inputs (3 or 4 even better).
• Figure out the workspace network settings.
• Figure out whether a gigabit switch is necessary to support running VMs with the disk on another machine and figure out what it would cost.
• Obtain 8-port switch and 8 cables.
• Obtain a port-forwarding-capable NAT router.
• Arrange a visit to CloudDynamics for a tech demo.
• Discuss the idea of weekly short conference calls to make sure we're on the right track.
• Meet with David G. about project plan.
• Talk to Jordan / Chris T. about Trac on monday or tuesday.