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[Wg-test-framework] Notes from tXen Project - Allnet Meeting, Nov 12th



FYI: sorry for being late on this one

From: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2014 16:48
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>, Paul George <pgeorge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Notes from today's Xen Project - Allnet Meeting

Please state any corrections : will forward to the working group, if I don't hear from you before the end of today

Regards

Lars


Attendees

Ian Jackson, Lars Kurth, Paul George


Agenda

* Discuss Installation Plan going forward

*  One of the test machines in POC â duplicated spec 

* RAM on one machines not specified 

* Question from Paul re VM configurations

* Lead time  

* Plumping diagram 

 

Action items

* Lars: MS discussion for guest licenses (ongoing)

 

New Action items:

* George to ACK on memory re Ian

* George to send complete machine spec to Ian

* Ian to review plan and provide feedback or ACk if it is fine

*  George, will draft dates and add contingency as needed 


== Agenda ==

 

=== Lead Time ===

Lead time: (George) 10 days, 2-3 days testing, plus shipping  - expect that two main servers and most boards.  George wants to see core infrastructure in the datacentre in the first 10 days in DEC.

 

Ian agrees

 

=== Duplicate Test Machines ===

Ian: clarified the situation in an email, and George ACKED

Paul: communicated the issue with duplicate test machines to his supplier

Suppler is looking at funding an alternative

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Paul will send a complete spec and send back to Ian before the end of the day

Ian needs to ACK. Ian is slightly concerned about price difference

 

=== Memory ===

George speced all machines with 8GB

George to ACK and correct it

 

=== Other Questions ===


George was asking what the best way is to get Wheezy?

Ian: expects us to need an apt cache system to host images. Ian usually uses netinstall. Can use PXE server


George: has not installed Debian via netinstall before and is operating a windows server shop.

George: Don & Don are going to install Debian systems

Ian: raised some concerns

George: does not think this will be an issue, because Don is Georgeâs webmaster and Don S has been working with George for many years.

 

George: needs a project plan on what needs to be done when from a HW and SW perspective. George needs to know what the pieces are and the order in which it he would like this to be done.

 

Ian: was hoping that the document that he sent to George is sufficient for George to create a plan and that George was planning to spec it out., after getting questions.

 

<George took some time to read the document>

 

Ian: believes that a sysadmin should take the plumbing document  and add detail on it

 

George: states that he understands most of the document and may follow up with a few questions.  There may be some more detail that is needed from line 96 of http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/iwj/colo-for-testing.git;a=blob;f=plumbing.txt;hb=HEAD

 

Ian clarified that all VMs have to be installed from scratch.

 

ACTION: George will use the plumbing diagram to put together a configuration plan, with an order in how to install items in the correct order, with estimated times. Until George has found a sysadmin, he will act as point of contact.

 

Ian would prefer to speak to the sysadmin directly through an email conversation, and to try to get a low-latency direct and recorded conversation about details.

 

=== Installation Plan ===

Ian: Related to the plan

* Does not have any dates on it.

* There is a section in the middle related to operating systems that needs to be amended (ideally in a separate SW config plan)

* Is happy with the level of detail
* We will probably need a separate SW config plan

 

ACTION: Ian to review plan and provide feedback or ACk if it is fine

ACTION: George, will draft dates and add contingency as needed

 

 

Attachment: Preliminary project plan[1].doc
Description: Preliminary project plan[1].doc

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