September 2011 - occi-wg

Request for current input on OCCI - please respond by early Wed. 21 September!
by Sill, Alan 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Apologies for the late request. I've talked with several of the group in person, but would like to request for purposes of thoroughness and completeness updates from each member of the OCCI work group any updates as to the status of their implementations, work on ongoing standards or any other community- based interactions or updates on OCCI of which they are aware. The use if this information is for an update I am scheduled to deliver to a session at the SIENA meeting tomorrow, Sep. 21 at a mid-morning session. Do not worry about formatting, as I can handle almost any input, but please feel free to send me any information about the current status of your effort - even just as an email message. (Of course, project logos, web references, papers or links for more information, and/or screenshots, etc. are also useful snd acceptable; I simply want to represent accurately the status of your work). Again, I have spoken to many of you in person, so should have the basic information handled, but please do feel free to send me updates as well as onfoation to add to what you have told me in person. Thanks, Alan

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About clock synchronization in the cloud
by Augusto Ciuffoletti 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Dear all, I was wondering whether the features of the system clock of a virtual instance (compute or storage) may be of interest for the user. I wrote down 500 words on the topic (see Google doc below), and I'd be pleased to know your opinions, taking advantage of the intense "brain storm" during next OGF. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1imafqyrVscdTbdfjngJ4Xfbg1DIoebdyzy… Bye Augusto

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New Interoperability Working Group
by Daniel Molina 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi all, I would like to announce the creation of a new Interoperability Working Group to support and discuss open standards such as Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) around OpenNebula. More information: http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=1893 http://wiki.opennebula.org/interoperability Cheers. -- Daniel Molina, Cloud Technology Engineer/Researcher Major Contributor OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing www.OpenNebula.org | dmolina(a)opennebula.org

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Cloud Interoperability
by Edmonds, AndrewX 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Some of you know about this already but for those that do not: http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=1893 Andy ------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Ireland Limited (Branch) Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland Registered Number: E902934 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies.

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Testing OCCI with SAJACC
by Alan Sill 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

I'd like to pick up on this request from Jin. I believe Alexander had offered access to an instance of something testable at TUDO - any others? In general, I would like to request help working through the test cases documented for NIST SAJACC at http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/S… under "Working Documents and Artifacts" Note they have downloadable example code for demonstrations with other standards - see last item on that list! Alan Begin forwarded message: > From: "Tong, Jin" <jin.tong(a)nist.gov> > Date: May 4, 2011 4:43:12 PM GMT+02:00 > To: "Edmonds, AndrewX" <andrewx.edmonds(a)intel.com>, "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu> > Cc: Ralf Nyren <ralf(a)nyren.net>, "Hogan, Michael D." <m.hogan(a)nist.gov>, "Sokol, Annie W." <annie.sokol(a)nist.gov>, "Liu, Fang" <fang.liu(a)nist.gov>, "Badger, Mark Lee" <mark.badger(a)nist.gov>, Thijs Metsch <tmetsch(a)platform.com>, Alexander Papaspyrou <alexander.papaspyrou(a)tu-dortmund.de>, Alexis Richardson <alexis(a)rabbitmq.com> > Subject: RE: OCCI test server > > Andy, > > I just replied Alan's message and copied to occi-wg mailing list to give a little background of our testing work. In terms of timing, the next major check point is September/October this year. If we can get to an OCCI endpoint that can actually facilitate our testing before that, we can certainly look into updating our testing code and test report to using OCCI 1.1 compliant APIs. > > Thanks, > --Jin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edmonds, AndrewX [mailto:andrewx.edmonds@intel.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 7:53 PM > To: Sill, Alan; Tong, Jin > Cc: Ralf Nyren; Hogan, Michael D.; Sokol, Annie W.; Liu, Fang; Badger, Mark Lee; Thijs Metsch; Alexander Papaspyrou; Alexis Richardson > Subject: RE: OCCI test server > > Since this time last year SLA@SOI has had an OCCI interface on top of a testbed (approx 12 physical nodes, associated storage and OS templates, and live demo'ed at OGF30). That access was via OCCI v1.0. Currently we're moving across to OCCI v1.1 and a large number of improvements to enable better comprehension of SLAs and related QoS and as a result the testbed is not so stable. It is certainly a possibility that we here in SLA@SOI could provide access to the testbed facility here once thing are fully deployed (note this will be sooner rather than later given that SLA@SOI is officially due to finish around June). > > Jin could you indicate your timelines and requirements so I can help and facilitate you? Perhaps (once back at base) I can supply you the test case scenarios implemented against our testbed. > > Of course all other offers of help are appreciated ;-) Alex - UDO have some substantial infrastructure behind the OCCI interface, might there be a faster path here? > > Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sill, Alan [mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 6:49 PM > To: Tong, Jin > Cc: Ralf Nyren; Hogan, Michael D.; Sokol, Annie W.; Liu, Fang; Badger, Mark Lee; Thijs Metsch; Edmonds, AndrewX; Alexander Papaspyrou; Alexis Richardson > Subject: OCCI test server > > I think Ralf's server is for interface testing only (no actual machine starting occurs?), though I could be mistaken. > > Is there a test server somewhere to which we can grant Jin access for SAJACC testing? > > Thanks, > Alan > > > > On May 3, 2011, at 11:05 AM, "Tong, Jin" <jin.tong(a)nist.gov> wrote: > >> Ralf, >> >> With regard to this particular OCCI endpoint and the sample curl >> commands > you sent earlier (see below): >> >> * What is really running ("active") after the curl command to do the >> HTTP > POST? I didn't see the post sending over parameters to identify network, storage/disk -- bootbable images, etc. Is there some default OS image that is being spun up? >> * Is there anyway to connect to the VM spun up? The HTTP GET command >> to > the compute resource I spun up doesn't include any network access (such as > IP) information. >> * Does this particular implementation of this site support >> customization > of the VMs, such as seeding the VM with a public key for an user account that needs ssh access later? >> >> Thanks, >> --Jin >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ralf Nyren [mailto:ralf@nyren.net] >> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 3:43 PM >> To: Alan Sill; Sill, Alan >> Cc: Tong, Jin; Hogan, Michael D.; Sokol, Annie W.; Liu, Fang; Badger, >> Mark > Lee; Thijs Metsch; Edmonds, AndrewX >> Subject: Re: Current drafts and comments on "pre-9th" draft for >> Standards > Roadmap document; meeting schedule >> >> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:35:17 +0200, Alan Sill <Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu> wrote: >> >>> Note one useful thing would be to see how many of the identified >>> SAJACC use cases can easily be checked off using this example instance: >> >> The following use cases regarding VM management are easy enough to >> check using the example instance: >> >> 3.7 VM Control: Allocate VM Instance >> >> # Allocate a VM instance like this: >> curl -X POST -H 'content-type: text/occi' -H 'category: compute; >> scheme=http://schemas.ogf.org/occi/infrastructure#' -H 'x-occi-attribute: > >> occi.compute.memory=3.0, occi.compute.cores=4' >> http://www.nyren.net/api/ >> >> # Copy paste the resource instance URL returned by the above command >> into > >> the below command to view the new VM instance: >> curl -X GET http://www.nyren.net/api/compute/xxxx >> >> 3.8 VM Control: Manage Virtual Machine Instance State >> >> # Activate the VM by triggering the "start" action (the URL is found >> in the Link header returned by the previous command) curl -X POST -H >> 'content-type: text/occi' -H 'category: start; >> scheme=http://schemas.ogf.org/occi/infrastructure/compute/action#' >> http://www.nyren.net/api/compute/xxxx?action=start >> >> # Repeat the GET request to see that the VM state now has changed from >> "inactive" to "active" >> >> 3.9 Query Cloud-Provider Capabilities and Capacities >> >> # You can see the capabilities in terms of resource types supported at >> the > >> query interface >> curl -X GET http://www.nyren.net/api/-/ >> >> 3.4 Copy Data Objects Into a Cloud >> 3.5 Copy Data Objects Out of a Cloud >> 3.6 Erase Data Objects In a Cloud >> >> You can upload/download data by using OCCI Actions. There is a >> proposed solution currently implemented in the occi-py library but >> last I heard it > >> will be released as an extension to the 1.1 release of the OCCI spec. >> Unfortunately the "dummy" backend of the demo instance does not allow >> for > >> a demonstration of this feature right now. >> >> Regarding the remaining use cases I would say that OCCI as a Protocol >> could handle most of them easily enough. The challenge is the service >> provider's implementation of the backend functionality rather than the >> transfer of information using OCCI. >> >> regards, Ralf

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About clock synchronization in the cloud
by Augusto Ciuffoletti 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Dear all, I was wondering whether the features of the system clock of a virtual instance (compute or storage) may be of interest for the user. I wrote down 500 words on the topic (see Google doc below), and I'd be pleased to know your opinions, taking advantage of the intense "brain storm" during next OGF. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1imafqyrVscdTbdfjngJ4Xfbg1DIoebdyzy… Bye Augusto

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About clock synchronization in the cloud
by Augusto Ciuffoletti 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Dear all, I was wondering whether the features of the system clock of a virtual instance (compute or storage) may be of interest for the user. I wrote down 500 words on the topic (see Google doc below), and I'd be pleased to know your opinions, taking advantage of the intense "brain storm" during next OGF. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1imafqyrVscdTbdfjngJ4Xfbg1DIoebdyzy… Bye Augusto 2011/9/12 Thijs Metsch <tmetsch(a)platform.com> > Dear all, > > Since the OGF schedule ( > http://ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?event_id=20) is finally > published I wanted to give you an heads up on the plans we have for this > event. We have a set of desired outcomes for this event which includes: > > * a first (draft) JSON rendering doc > * a more detailed plan on OVF integration/rendering > * a first (draft) for the experience doc > > Since this requires some work we’ll have a full day F2F meeting which is > really a working group session where we will hack documents and discuss. > This all-day event will take place on Monday Sept. 19. > > Next to this F2F meeting we have some more general sessions. They will take > place on Wednesday Sept. 20. These are the agendas: > > 1. Session - Group presentations: > Introduction (chairs) 15 min > FI-ware - Andy Edmonds - 15min > Contrail - Yves Yegon - 15min > Implementation updates / OCCI implementation demos (OpenNebula, > OpenStack, TBC) > > 2. Session - Group discussion: > Update on discussion outcomes of our F2F meeting > Current OCCI Critiques on model or renderings (bring your REST hat :-)) > Upcoming OCCI Monitoring/Negotiation > JSON/OVF discussion > > 3. Session OCCI/CDMI integration > We’ll try to dial into the Cloud plug-fest during this session. > > For remote participants: please join our IRC channel during the meetings > and look for the skype user occi.wg if you wanna connect remotely. > > Hope to see you in Lyon, > > -Thijs > _______________________________________________ > occi-wg mailing list > occi-wg(a)ogf.org > http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/occi-wg > -- Augusto Ciuffoletti Dipartimento di Informatica Università di Pisa 56100 - Pisa (Italy)

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Question about Compute instance action
by Kim Rohner 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Dear OCCI-Workgroup, i have a question concerning the OCCI Compute instance actions. Comparing to the Amazon EC2-API, OCCI obviously delivers no action to terminate an Instance. Terminating in the Amazon-API means, that the instance is shut down and won´t be visible after one hour. The Action you listed in the GFD-P-R.184 on page 5 gives only the possibility to hibernate or suspend. Is that the same or am I just confused :) ? Thanks for clearing that up for me !!! Feel free to answer in German :) Keep up the good work, Kind regards, Kim Rohner

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OGF33 agendas & planning
by Thijs Metsch 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Dear all, Since the OGF schedule (http://ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?event_id=20) is finally published I wanted to give you an heads up on the plans we have for this event. We have a set of desired outcomes for this event which includes: * a first (draft) JSON rendering doc * a more detailed plan on OVF integration/rendering * a first (draft) for the experience doc Since this requires some work we’ll have a full day F2F meeting which is really a working group session where we will hack documents and discuss. This all-day event will take place on Monday Sept. 19. Next to this F2F meeting we have some more general sessions. They will take place on Wednesday Sept. 20. These are the agendas: 1. Session - Group presentations: Introduction (chairs) 15 min FI-ware - Andy Edmonds - 15min Contrail - Yves Yegon - 15min Implementation updates / OCCI implementation demos (OpenNebula, OpenStack, TBC) 2. Session - Group discussion: Update on discussion outcomes of our F2F meeting Current OCCI Critiques on model or renderings (bring your REST hat :-)) Upcoming OCCI Monitoring/Negotiation JSON/OVF discussion 3. Session OCCI/CDMI integration We’ll try to dial into the Cloud plug-fest during this session. For remote participants: please join our IRC channel during the meetings and look for the skype user occi.wg if you wanna connect remotely. Hope to see you in Lyon, -Thijs

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FW: EC-ETSI workshop "Standards in the Cloud: a transatlantic mindshare" - Sophia-Antipolis, 28/29 September 2011
by Edmonds, AndrewX 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

FYI From: Maria.MOTA-VIEGAS(a)ec.europa.eu [mailto:Maria.MOTA-VIEGAS@ec.europa.eu] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 8:17 AM Subject: EC-ETSI workshop "Standards in the Cloud: a transatlantic mindshare" - Sophia-Antipolis, 28/29 September 2011 Dear Madam, Dear Sir, Don't miss the opportunity to join the EC-ETSI workshop "Standards in the Cloud: a transatlantic mindshare" http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/NewsandEvents/2011_09_STANDARDSINTHECLOUD.aspx The event, co organized by ETSI and EC DG INFSO, in cooperation with NIST, EuroCIO and EuroCloud, will be held at CICA in Sophia-Antipolis, France, on 28th - 29th September 2011 An updated agenda is now available at: http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/NewsandEvents/CLOUD_PROGRAMME.aspx Register for the event at: <http://webapp.etsi.org/meetingCalendar/MakeChoice.asp?mid=29717&date=2011%2 D09%2D28+09%3A00%3A00> http://webapp.etsi.org/meetingCalendar/MakeChoice.asp?mid=29717&date=2011%2D 09%2D28+09%3A00%3A00 The objective of the workshop is to: * Drill down the issues of standards for cloud computing from 3 major angles * Policy * Industry and markets (supply and demand side) * Standards and interoperability * Gather elements to devise a standards roadmap for EU, including priorities, players and processes Hotels and transport Please find herewith a <http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/document/EVENTS/CLOUD/Hotels_facilities.doc> list of hotels with which ETSI has negotiated rates. You should use <http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/document/EVENTS/CLOUD/Hotel_reserv.doc> the form provided to make your booking. With regards to transportation, we strongly advise a car rental. <http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/document/EVENTS/CLOUD/Car_rental_Taxis_faciliti es.doc> Attached are the ETSI negotiated rates. We look forward to welcoming you to this event ! ------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Ireland Limited (Branch) Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland Registered Number: E902934 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies.

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