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Re: [Wg-test-framework] [Minutes] March Test WG meeting

On 03/28/14 09:46, Lars Kurth wrote:

Hi all,

am back from holidays and wanted to follow up on action items. So it seems the open items are

* Action: Ian to send out detailed hardware requirements to all, all to reply with thoughts on what manufacturers and cpu’s need to be bought to give us right mix.

Sent out by Ian, but no comments so far

* Action: DonS to continue investigating colo providers large and small, and to make proposals / recommendations back to the WG.

I think we are still waiting for a concrete proposal

Yes, so that a real cost could be done.

I do feel that we have a good enough statement to get a ball park type quote.

So far I am still having issues with getting a sales person to respond from both
Verizon (Terremark) and CSC.

Just some overview data:

Boston, MA, USA:

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The State of Virginia (USA) is a hot spot for clients looking for an East Coast presence.

Secure half cabinets with 15amp power and 10Mbps start at $500 a month. Full cabinets with 20amp power and 10Mbps start at $800 a month. Additional 20amp and 30amp feeds will add another $250-300 to your monthly bill.

Colocation data centers in the London area:

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-Don Slutz

Lars

From: Chris Shepherd
Sent: 13 March 2014 15:51
To: Lars Kurth; wg-test-framework@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Doug Clark
Cc: advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Minutes] March Test WG meeting

== Attendees ==

* Aravind Gopalakrishnan (AMD, voting)
* Chris Shepherd (Citrix, voting)
* Doug Clark (Citrix, helping Chris with detailed technical tasks)
* Ian Jackson (Citrix, community representative, voting)
* Don Slutz (Verizon, voting)
* Don Dugger (Intel, voting)

== Agenda ==

* test framework

* review and agree hardware requirements for test lab

* review options for colo and sys admin support

=== Minutes===

Test framework

We will use osstest in the first instance, but will concurrently explore ways of additionally incorporating XenRT, or at least XenRT test cases, into it as a longer term aim.

Hardware requirements

See separate email from Ian to TestWG containing details. DonL suggested we look at RocketPort 32-port PCI. To get ARM in the lab, Ian proposed that the xen developers in Citrix build out semi-custom cases containing their ARM dev boards and ship these to the colo.

Action: Ian to send out detailed hardware requirements to all, all to reply with thoughts on what manufacturers and cpu’s need to be bought to give us right mix.

Hosting requirements for XenRT (Doug) – the hardware specified by Ian could not run xenrt side-by-side with osstest, xenrt requires more memory and possibly shared storage for ISOs and logs.

Our basic premise should be to build out osstest first and add xenrt capability in a later phase, the incremental cost should be low. However, we decided to buy 32GB RAM infrastructure servers in the first instance to partially future-proof the lab (the hardware we need appears to be well within budget).

Colo options (DonS):

Do we go with someone big like Verizon, or someone smaller and more local? We want a full colo service incl sys admin to do the routine maintenance, backups etc. Probably the price quoted by a colo provider would include an hourly rate for a sys admin

DonL: will we have a substantial up-front cost (set up etc)? Yes, and will drop significantly once into steady-state. If paying the colo provider by the hour for sys admin then this can be catered for.

Action: DonS to continue investigating colo providers large and small, and to make proposals / recommendations back to the WG.

AOB

DonL: how do you use xenrt?

Doug: could either tie it to submission gate like osstest, or could set it up as a self-service test. Aim would be to allow community to test their own patches, exploiting the test inventory. Ian: osstest would allow this, if a simple web interface added.
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