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.
• Our timetables.

Blog

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

Bug Tracker

• http://rome.proximity.on.ca/projects/senecacd

Plan for 2 weeks starting the 29th of October

Everyone

• Progress meeting tusday at 14:00

This week

Diogo

• Finish OpenNebula setup if there aren't any major problems.
• OpenStack - overview of what it is, then find what HA capabilities it has.
• CloudStack, same
• Linux-HA, same
• 1 Figure out what OpenNebula is capable of, how hard it is to set up, perhaps go through one setup.

Kieran

• Finish testing iSCSI target/initiator.
• Figure out what Citrix Xen server is, what's needed for us to set up our own as a reference point.
• 2 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.

Diogo & Kieran - Done

• Connect the two PCs into the local network.
• Test the local network speed, confirm it's close to Gbps.
• 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.

Andrew

This week

• Ask Dawn about moving the mac somewhere else.

Done

• 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.
• Ask Peter about writing on the wall.
• Print the network diagram.
• Get more network cables.
• Talk to Diana about paperwork.
• Get at least two more boxes (better 3). On order due week of the 12th of Nov.
• Talk to Jordan / Chris T. about Trac on monday or tuesday.
• 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. On order due week of the 12th of Nov.
• Obtain a port-forwarding-capable NAT router.
• Meet with David G. about project plan.
• Ask about keys for cabinets

Postponed

• Get a KVM switch supporting at least two inputs (3 or 4 even better).