Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack

2016-02-02 Thread Rick Leir
Hi JF, John This long document mentions OpenStack in seven places. http://www.ssc-spc.gc.ca/pages/dcc-rad-eng.html If your VMware is already up and running, then you might find it tough sledding to propose a multi-year project to implement OpenStack. Quicker with a few people who have good exper

[OCLUG-Tech] February Meeting: 2016-02-04 @ 19:00

2016-02-02 Thread Murphy Scott
Location: Woodroffe Campus, Algonquin College - Building T, Room T-303 This month we will be having at least two talks, one on lire office master documents and the other on open data with iPython notebooks and pandas. As usual, there will be opportunity for questions as well as other topics afte

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack

2016-02-02 Thread jf
Actually, without disclosing much more, I can say that this is in the context of a very large implementation, very large systems. As I realise this is not necessarily an everyday situation, does nayone know of a large company who uses such OpenStack in a large implementation ? Something local to O

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-02 Thread John Argus
Jean-Francois, I work at SSC and some of my colleagues on the design side implementing something called RAD. Rapid something or other. What they designed is almost exactly what you describe below. I can get you in touch with them to see if what they implemented will work for you. John Argus

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack

2016-02-02 Thread Rick Leir
OpenStack is a big complex system which is used for large systems. For most cases Docker is much more practical. But as others have said, what will it be used for. Will you host it yourself? Will you run a mix of OS's? Distributed servers? Size? Uptime constraints? Security? Budget? Schedule?

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-02 Thread jf
WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY “CLOUD”?       THE “REMAINING”? DEFINE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!   Basically what we have now is an implementation of VMware Automation Center.   What we are looking for is something that has the same or close to the same functionality of vmware automation center without