[colug-432] virtualization, clouds, and infrastructure

[Tom Hanlon]

On Dec 15, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Scott Merrill wrote:

> The discussion on Hadoop is interesting, and I do hope a presentation
> or two results. If I can help coordinate, please let me know.

I can give a presentation in Jan/Feb I think I would like to spin off a hadoop meetup group as well. 

Presentation I can give..
I can present on hadoop, hbase, hive, pig but perhaps the best would be a general presentation that wanders the way presentations wander when techies get together :-)

Paradoxically enough we can all grab cloudera's VM (vmware) to play with examples. 

What I would like to learn about: 
Mongo, couchdb, membase (if there is anything complex about it ? ) 



> 
> On a similar vein, how are you folks handling the management of
> virtualized servers in your environments? It's trivial with KVM and
> similar tools to run a couple of virtual instances on a single
> physical box. It's not so trivial to run those virtual instances in a
> highly available fashion across a cluster of physical machines.
> 

I personally do not have much experience with either of these projects but I think they deserve mentioning in this thread because..
A: they are open source
B: I think they both partially aim to solve some of these issues. 

Eucalyptus: 

Tools to manage your private cloud, looks like it aims to allow you to replicate your experience with what amazon Web Services provides but across your machines. 
I did not dive deep enough to see if it provides HA for instances of VM's. 

The project is/was somehow tied to ubuntu.. but I am not sure of the connection. Does Ubuntu provide a competing product to the redhat tools in this space ? 

Openstack: 

Similar as far as I can tell, 

--
Tom



Tom Hanlon
tom at functionalmedia.com
Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer
Certified MySQL DBA