> On Nov 17, 2015, at 9:31 PM, Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-11-18 10:23 GMT+08:00 Dan Langille <d...@langille.org>: > >> >>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 8:46 PM, Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdp...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> 2015-11-18 3:14 GMT+08:00 Dan Langille <d...@langille.org>: >>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 12, 2015, at 1:30 AM, Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdp...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2015-11-12 6:34 GMT+08:00 Dan Langille <d...@langille.org>: >>>> >>>>> On Oct 12, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Dan Langille <d...@langille.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Following up on the discussions during EuroBSDCon 2015 (Stockholm) >>>>> during the FreeBSD Developer >>>>>> Summit regarding various ZFS configuration settings, I write to start >>>>> our implementation phase now that some >>>>>> usual suspects have joined the list. >>>>>> >>>>>> re https://wiki.freebsd.org/201510DevSummit/Performance >>>>>> >>>>>> I think the first order of business is granting access rights to the >>>>> server (varm) in question: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://dan.langille.org/2015/07/19/varm/ >>>>>> >>>>>> During the workshop, mention was made of serial access. I can arrange >>>>> that. >>>>>> >>>>>> The server has IPMI, however, my first thought: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1 - connect a USB-serial cable to varm & link that to another server >> in >>>>> my rack. >>>>> >>>>> Marcelo: At EuroBSDCon, was it you who mentioned a particular >>>>> configuration for the test machine which made >>>>> it easy to configure and run tests? Was it PXE booting or something? >>>>> >>>>>> 2 - create a jail in that server and give it access to that serial >>>>> connection >>>>>> 3 - redirect incoming port XYZ to that jail via a public-key-only ssh >>>>> connection >>>>>> 4 - give people access >>>>>> >>>>>> Any suggestions? >>>>> >>>>> — >>>>> Dan Langille >>>>> http://langille.org/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Hello Dan, >>>> >>>> Yes, was me :) >>>> >>>> I mention about zopkio test framework. >>>> I gave a presentation last weekend at PyCon Hong Kong about it. >>>> >>>> Here is my slides: >>>> >> http://www.slideshare.net/araujobsd/functional-and-scale-performance-tests-using-zopkio >>>> >>>> The good of Zopkio is, we can write tests at once and run it as much as >> we >>>> want in different machines. Also Zopkio depends of Naarad, that can >> parse a >>>> CSV file and create metrics and SLA over those metrics, plot graphs and >> so >>>> on. Pretty nice tool!!! >>>> >>>> I'm wondering if we could start to test something and maybe show it at >>>> AsiaBSDCon and BSDCon(Canada) next year? What do you think? >>>> What I need right now would be a list of tests that we want to perform >> as >>>> well as what parameters we would like to take as metrics to compare.\ >>>> >>>> >>>> For tests, we can start with this list: >>>> https://github.com/dlangille/zfs_benchmarks/issues >>>> >>>> We can start as soon as I figure out how to provide access to the >>>> testers. See above re serial connection. >>>> >>>> I want to provide access, but I want to keep access restricted to only >>>> this box and not to the rest of my home LAN. I plan to do this via a >>>> VLAN. >>>> >>>> I could fire up a Rasperberry Pi and allow ssh into that. Will that be >>>> enough >>>> power for what you need to do? >>>> >>>> >>> First of all, thanks to share the tests cases. >>> >>> If I use zopkio, the best would be access SSH direct to the target >> machine >>> where I need to run the tests. For zopkio, I need to have my SSH KEY on >> the >>> target machine. >> >> I am OK with this. >> >>> As I don't know your network, maybe what you could do is: Via >> RasperBerry, >>> forward the SSH to the target machine, I will pass-through via your >>> RasperBerry where you can control the access for the rest of your LAN. >>> >>> Another approach could be, two different subnets and a firewall. Or as >> you >>> said, VLANS. >> >> I will be doing VLANS, which have yet to be set up. >> >> The target system will have ZFS pools can be configured for different >> tests (i.e. raidz2 vs raidz3). >> This will involve gpart etc because the drives & pools will need to be >> 'wiped' between different test >> runs. >> >> I seem to recall someone suggesting PXE boot and configuring the system >> remotely. Does anyone >> recall that? That aspect of the discussion was not recorded: >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/201510DevSummit/Performance >> >> > Bapt@ mentioned that, this is the way how we are doing in another project. > But in my point of view, it is not a must for our case! > > The PXE wold be good if we try to test different of OS flavors, or build > different images.
OK. The only thing holding us back is: - adding the air filters to the case - moving to the new switch with the new VLANs It's now a matter of time. — Dan Langille http://langille.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"