Hi Marcus,
That 2-level cache is exactly what I've been thinking. I hadn't
considered however giving the VMs block devices... Nice. I'll email you
on that.
Raul
On 11/05/17 21:29, Marcus Ebert wrote:
> Hi Raul,
>
> ZFS over the 30TB with the SSD for L2ARC (and ZIL)?
> THAT would be a nice system ;-)
>
> (and you can give the VMs even block devices to work with, and
> compression,...)
>
> Cheers,
> Marcus
>
> On Thu, 11 May 2017, Raul Lopes wrote:
>
>> It's proof of concept working as a cache for the HDD.
>>
>> Raul
>>
>> Sam Skipsey wrote:
>>
>>> 10TB of SSD cache isn't so much a cache as a significant chunk of
>>> additional storage!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 11 May 2017 at 15:34 RAUL H C LOPES <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm still working on those storage tests. I have added a small
>>>> complication. I want to add to it a storage unit that has got 30 TB
>>>> HDD
>>>> and 10 TB of SSD cache. That delayed me.
>>>>
>>>> On other front, I've got build for a local HPC group a cluster that
>>>> will
>>>> to provision Windows on VMs. That's bringing me to:
>>>> - storage for VM provisioning.
>>>> - management/start of images for Windows and maybe two flavours
>>>> of Linux.
>>>> - Linux images will run MPI jobs.
>>>>
>>>> Very preliminary right now.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully I'll have more details next time.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Raul
>>>>
>>>> On 11/05/17 15:05, David Colling wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other suggestions for discussion topics tomorrow? For example how
>>>>> are the storage tests going?
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise it will be a dull meeting ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> david
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/05/17 12:04, Ian Neilson wrote:
>>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> More of a suggestion than a promise ;-), but unfortunately I
>>>>>> won't be
>>>> able to join a meeting this week. Certainly another time though.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ian
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Ian Neilson
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Colling
>>>>>>> Sent: 10 May 2017 19:36
>>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>> Subject: Technical Meeting on Friday
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are due a technical meeting on Friday. I was looking for
>>>>>>> topics to
>>>>>>> discuss. For example Ian promised us a discussion on the future of
>>>> X.509
>>>>>>> certificates at some point (Ian would this be a good topic for
>>>> Friday?).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Suggestions welcome.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>> david
>>>>
>>
>>
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