http://www.stratuslab.org/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:06:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://www.stratuslab.org/lib/images/favicon.ico http://www.stratuslab.org/ http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/presentations * “SlipStream - Automated provisioning and continuous deployment in the cloud” (Presentation), CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1 February 2012. * Experience from the provision of IaaS cloud services using the StratusLab distribution, eScience 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden, 7 December 2011. * “Virtualisation de serveurs à l'aide d'un logiciel de cloud” (Video, Article, Presentation) (G. Philippon) at JRES 2011 in Toulouse, France, 23 November 2011. * StratusLab Tutorial in Orsay, France, 17-18 No… meb Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:49:50 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/release:users The tools required to interface with an existing cloud (either our StratusLab Reference Infrastructure or another installation), you will want to download and install the StratusLab client commands. The links below tell you how to do that and provide pointers to relevant documentation. loomis release Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:23:03 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/press * StratusLab Announces Participation in Cloudscape IV HPC In the Cloud 24th January 2012 * Stratuslab version 1.2 release announcement HPC In the Cloud 23rd January 2012 * StratusLab version 1.2 release announcement iSGTW 20th January 2012 * European initiatives strengthen cooperation on cloud computing - VENUS-C, StratusLab and EDGI bring together cloud user communities and technology iSGTW 11th November 2011 * Le Cloud pour aider les organismes de recherche à gérer leurs pics de charg… cassidy Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:27:45 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/tutorial:baseimagecreation OS installation The base installation of the OS can be done with a virtualisation software like VirtualBox, QEMU/KVM or VMware Player. * Create a new VM and select an IDE bus for your HDD (very important for Windows). * When installing your OS it is recommended to choose a simple HDD layout (for example only 1 partition for / and no swap). * Choose DHCP method to get an IP address. tezier tutorial Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:51:38 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/claudia Claudia Platform The Claudia platform is an advanced service management toolkit that allows service providers to dynamically control the service provisioning and scalability in an IaaS Cloud. Claudia manages services as a whole, controlling the configuration of multiple VM components, virtual networks and storage support by optimizing the use of them and by dynamically scaling up/down services applying elasticity rules, SLAs and business rules. jicarretero Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:07:09 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/ref-doc:user-cli Providing contextualization to VM As a way of delivering context information to VM one can provide a set of key=value pairs via stratus-run-instance using the following parameters. --context-file=FILE extra context file with one key=value per line --context=CONTEXT extra context string (separate by #) konstan ref-doc Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:28:57 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/news:stratuslabatclousscape The StratusLab project will have a strong presence at the upcoming Cloudscape IV event which takes place in Brussels, Belgium from 23-24 February, 2012. Cloudscape IV focuses strongly on interoperability and portability issues with the involvement of key Standard Development Organizations as part of a call for action to strengthen international cooperation to address global challenges. Cloudscape IV also shines the spotlight on the reusable assets of European Distributed Computing Infrastructur… cassidy news Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:52:11 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/news Latest * SIENA Cloudscape IV: The StratusLab project will have a strong presence at the upcoming SIENA Cloudscape IV * StratusLab version 1.2 released: with new features such as caching, improved persisitent storage support and more! * StratusLab Cloud Training: two-day training session 17th - 18th November in Orsay, France * StratusLab signs Memorandum of Understanding with IGE * Success at the EGI Technical Forum 2011: Virtualisation and Agile sessions, a packed StratusLab tutorial … cassidy Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:51:38 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/install:marketplace Marketplace StratusLab runs its own YUM repository, so you must add it to your YUM configuration. Drop a file (named say stratuslab-releases.repo) in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ with the following content: [StratusLab-Releases] name=StratusLab-Releases baseurl=http://yum.stratuslab.eu/releases/fedora14 gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 stkenny install Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:42:11 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/upcomingevents This page lists upcoming events at which StratusLab will be present Submissions to CFPs Invited Talks Tutorials cassidy Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:37:17 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/referenceservices Overview StratusLab has deployed a reference infrastructure and offers access to external third parties in order to test and evaluate the cloud solutions developed by the project. This infrastructure builds upon the latest stable release 1.2 of the StratusLab distribution and provides two types of cloud services: efloros Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:53:55 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/tutorial:notification From Release 1.2 there are now two mechanisms for asynchronous notification of events in a virtual machine's lifecycle. These features are experimental and will change significantly in future release, based on the feedback from users. Please provide your feedback via the support mailing list. loomis tutorial Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:09:56 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/documentation * Get Started * Release Information * Features by version * Installation Information * Client tools * Script-assisted manual installation * Automated installation with Quattor * Authentication and Authorization * Logging information for debugging and tracing * Marketplace installation loomis Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:26:40 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/news:release1.2 The StratusLab project is proud to announce the StratusLab 1.2 release. This is an incremental release of the StratusLab distribution, the cloud computing distribution designed for grid and cluster computing. Key features of StratusLab v1.2 * Image caching for faster VM instantiation * Improvements in persistent storage, including enhanced security, easier configuration, automatic mounting and formatting and the ability to run machines from a persistent disk image * Asynchronous status… cassidy news Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:25:03 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/release:all_releases Release v1.1 * Bug-fixes to the first production release 1.0 * Improved persistent storage support * Enhanced integration of the Claudia Platform cloud Service Management toolkit Release v1.0 v1.0 is the production ready release, based on v0.4. cassidy release Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:14:44 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/monitoringsystems This page describes the installation of the monitoring systems in the Stratuslab project. The reference OS is Fedora 14 64bits. However, it should be easily figured out how to port this explanations to some others OS like Centos or RedHat. Easy Installation way First of all, notice that this way is only available for Fedora 14. If you're working with other OS, skip this section because no other OS is supported by the moment. Besides the stratuslab yum repository, you'll need to add a new repos… jicarretero Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:19:23 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/playground:playground cassidy playground Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:43:57 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/apprepository The StratusLab project maintains a prototype appliance repository via which machine images can be shared. The images are available via the http(s) protocol. The service is connected to the project's LDAP server with write access controlled via username/password. stkenny Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:36:30 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/cfp Calls for papers relevant to StratusLab. General * 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) - Submission deadline: July 25, 2011 * ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing - Submission deadline: 2011. * International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) - Submission deadline: November 24, 2010 * CloudCamp - Submission deadline: ongoing * the International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID) - Submission deadline December 10, 2010 * … cassidy Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:37:24 +0100 http://www.stratuslab.org/doku.php/deliverables Deliverables No. Title Pub. Date D2.1 [Review of the Use of Cloud and Virtualization Technologies in Grid Infrastructures] 13 Aug. 2010 D4.1 [Reference Architecture for StratusLab Toolkit 1.0] 14 Aug. 2010 D5.1 [Infrastructure Specifications] 14 Aug. 2010 D3.1 [Initial Plan for Dissemination, Collaboration, and Standardization Activities] 18 Oct. 2010 D6.1 [Cloud-like Management of Grid Sites 1.0 Design Report] 16 Nov. 2010 D5.2 [Infrastructure Tools and Policy Specification]… loomis Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:07:55 +0100