[Mageia-sysadm] Clearifying questions

[Joerg Stephan]

Hi again,

@AL13N
thats are real great news. Looking forward to see the result.

So then sympa <-> identity interaction seems to be a topic :-)

Kind regards


----- Original Message -----
> From: AL13N <alien at rmail.be>
> To: mageia-sysadm at mageia.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 9:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mageia-sysadm] Clearifying questions
> 
> at $dayjob, an intern is developing a virtcenter (under my guidance) (which 
> likely will be released opensource), largely based on php-libvirt.
> 
> the idea is to be able to control multiple libvirtd servers (kvm/xen but i 
> hear vmware should have some kind of libvirtd implementation too, (maybe only 
> in their vcenter))
> 
> the intern is using this as his work and will show a demo of this around 
> Januari.
> 
> in a first stage features will be as follows:
> - ldap-group-based authentication
> - libvirtd servers listed in ldap (so that the authentication can be done per 
> group on different servers)
> - start/pause/resume/stop/poweroff per vm
> - clone from templates
> - spice:// links for a locally installed spice-client
> - if time permits: delete
> - if time permits: livemigration
> 
> we are likely gonna be pushing this towards our clients, because the 
> management tools we've seen so far: RH, Oracle, etc... are not adequate or 
> horrible or completely bloated.
> 
> and this would enable us to put other stuff on clients machines rather than 
> always vmware, which has some nasty bugs^Wfeatures.
> 
> 
> so, if you can wait that long, it may be suited.
> 
> 
> AL13N
> 
> 
> Op maandag 17 september 2012 14:01:51 schreef nicolas vigier:
>>  On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Joerg Stephan wrote:
>>  > Hi there,
>>  > 
>>  > nice topics, all of them
>>  > 
>>  > 1. Topic: Virtual Machines
>>  > What do we use? xen/kwm/vmware? I already done automatic setups for 
> xen
>>  > machines on our side. I could take a look. Could be hart whitout
>>  > accessing the machines.
>>  There is nothing at the moment, so no need to have access to servers to
>>  start developing tools to manage VMs (probably based on libvirt), or
>>  find existing tools that could do what we need.
>> 
>>  What we need :
>>  - a command to allow users, or group of users, to generate a new VM with
>>    Mageia 1, 2, Cauldron, with their ssh key installed in the VM (the ssh
>>    key stored in their ldap account), some port redirection to allow
>>    them to connect with ssh, or vnc.
>>  - a command to list VMs and their status
>>  - a command to stop, start, delete a VM
>>  - limit the number of VMs someone can create (because we have limited
>>    disk space on the server)
>> 
>>  > 2. Topic sympa emails
>>  > maybe we could maniulate the databases. For we use LDAP shouldnt be 
> the
>>  > problem if both systems can interact. 
>>  > 
>>  > 3. On the Sysadmin side
>>  > Backups could be done via bacula. i could set that up. Would be easy 
> to
>>  > integrate that in puppet for the clients. Needs talking about schedule
>>  > for incremental and full backups. And i would need access to a backup
>>  > server.
>>  We are already installing rsnapshot for backups.
>> 
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