VMLabs System: Difference between revisions

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VMLAB: The rationale for this implementation was to reduce the barrier for project creation and facilitate ad hoc experimentation. It was my goal to make this minimally intimidating for inexperienced users.

I thought it easiest if those who were less confident had a familiar interface and I didn't suspect anyone regardless of experience will be offended by a GUI, so I opted for a browser based system.

I did this through a management interface called Kimchi, which is a plugin for wok the webserver. ginger is used as a plugin mgmt system. the whole thing is backed by KVM acting as a hypervisor. Here's a link of just the interface: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/master/docs/kimchi-templates.png

From the web interface, users can create vm's from template (locally hosted iso's), monitor usage, and run a console through the web browser

Login info: 10.0.1.110:8000 uname: vmlab pw: uas

VMLab Specs:

OS:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Sorry, I built it right before the new release) RAM: 64 Gb CPU: 4 dual core AMD Opterons (3GHZ) HDD: 660Gb

Relevant links: https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok https://www.linux.com/news/kvm-or-xen-choosing-virtualization-platform

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-Hyper-V 3.x (Server 2012 R2 release) or ESXi 5.1 (pending benchmarking of key resources such as CPU and I/O load distribution, last round of benchmarking Hyper-V trashed ESXi on our hardware for our specific usage scenarios due to how multipath I/O was handled and ram manipulation. Will test the latest update rollups of both.) managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 preview. (or RTM, if available upon launch).
+VMLAB:
+The rationale for this implementation was to reduce the barrier for project creation and facilitate ad hoc experimentation. It was my goal to make this minimally intimidating for inexperienced users.
-Limited user accounts are provided for users to create/share VMs using specific resource allocations per user as well as a specific SAN share for their VM's disk files and ISO uploads.
+I thought it easiest if those who were less confident had a familiar interface and I didn't suspect anyone regardless of experience will be offended by a GUI, so I opted for a browser based system.
-Private file shares as well will be provided for users with individualized accounts.
+I did this through a management interface called Kimchi, which is a plugin for wok the webserver. ginger is used as a plugin mgmt system. the whole thing is backed by KVM acting as a hypervisor.
+Here's a link of just the interface: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/master/docs/kimchi-templates.png
+From the web interface, users can create vm's from template (locally hosted iso's), monitor usage, and run a console through the web browser
+Login info:
+.0.1.110:8000
+uname: vmlab
+pw: uas
+VMLab Specs:
+OS:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Sorry, I built it right before the new release)
+RAM: 64 Gb
+CPU: 4 dual core AMD Opterons (3GHZ)
+HDD: 660Gb
+Relevant links:
+https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi
+https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok
+https://www.linux.com/news/kvm-or-xen-choosing-virtualization-platform

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