The evolution of Ganeti, an Open Source manager for clusterized virtual machines

lectures

The FLOSS Competence Center IME/USP invites to the lecture by Michael Hanselmann, Google engineer and Ganet project developer, the manager of virtual GPL servers used by Google. All interested are welcome.

Michael Hanselmann
Google Switzerland

Where? Room 144, block B - IME/USP
Date? july 12 , 2010, 14pm

ABSTRACT:
Almost three years ago we released Ganeti, an Open Source management tool for virtual machines. Since my first presentation of Ganeti at FISL two years ago, many things have changed. Apart from significantly improved stability and security, KVM has been added next to Xen as a fully supported hypervisor, the architecture has been changed from individual commands to clients talking to a long-running daemon with granular locking and an intelligent cluster allocator, htools, was published. This talk will cover the design, development and day-to-day operations of Ganeti at Google from the first, simple prototype, the Open Source release in 2007, all the way up to the current state of a powerful and flexible cluster management system.

BIO:
Michael Hanselmann works as a Site Reliability Engineer/System Administrator at Google Switzerland in Zürich. He ran his own website hosting project for more than five years, has been a Gentoo Linux developer for 3½ years and contributed code to various Open Source projects, including the Linux kernel and VLC media player.


Date
July 12th, 2010 at 14h