NYLUG Presents: Tom Limoncelli on Google's Ganeti Project (Oct. 11, 2012)
Channel: NYLUG
Date: 2012-11-12

(The slides for this talk are available here: http://whatexit.org/tal/PICC12/Ganeti-90-stages.pdf)

Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM. Ganeti takes care of disk creation, migration, OS installation, shutdown, startup, and can be used to preemptively move a virtual machine off a physical machine that is starting to get sick. It doesn't require a big expensive SAN, complicated networking, or a lot of money. The project is used around the world by many organizations and it is sponsored by Google.

More Information:

Ganeti: http://code.google.com/p/ganeti
Ganeti documentation: http://docs.ganeti.org/ganeti/current/html/
Tom's blog: http://everythingsysadmin.com/
LOPSA-East conference: http://lopsaeast.org/

About Tom Limoncelli:

Tom is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system administrator. His best known books include Time Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly) and The Practice of System and Network Administration (Addison-Wesley). He works at Google in NYC on the Ganeti project. Tom is a member of LOPSA, Usenix and is on the planning committee for the LOPSA-East conference, May 3-4, 2013.