A tutorial on Ganeti, a cluster virtualization management tool created by Google. Its planned to be presented at Open Source Bridge 2011 and OSCON 2011.
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Here's an outline of the tutorial as it stands now.
- Introduction to Ganeti
- Basic overview
- Project history, background, and motivation
- Tutorial overview
- Hands-on Setup
- VM images
- How the Hands-on VMs are setup
- Comparing to other projects
- Openstack
- Eucalyptus
- OpenNebula
- Base architecture
- Components
- Clusters, Nodes, & Instances
- Storage Management
- Network setup
- Planning your cluster
- Hardware Planning
- Operating system
- Network
- Pre-installation Steps
- Operating System Setup
- Installing the Hypervisor
- Installing DRBD
- Network Setup
- Configuring LVM
- Installing Ganeti
- Install Ganeti
- Install OS Definition
- Initialize Ganeti
- Post-install steps
- Virtual machines
- Overview
- Pros/Cons
- Deployment strategies
- VM Creation
- Common VM operations
- Allocation tools
- Htools
- hail
- hspace
- hbal
- Dealing with failures
- Node failures
- Disk failures
- Split brain
- Other commands
- Cluster info
- Modifying cluster defaults
- Node info
- Modifying node information
- Exporting/Importing VMs
- Job queue
- Node Groups
- Expanding a cluster
- Planning
- Adding node
- Rebalancing cluster
- Upgrading Ganeti
- Common practices
- Procedure
- Potential issues
- Extending with the RAPI
- Summary
- Common uses
- Project Roadmap
- Release schedule
- Upcoming features
- Ganeti Web Manager
- Overview, project history, motivation
- Installation requirements
- Installation
- Using GWM
- Conclusion
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