France-Grilles | Université Toulouse 3
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The CloudMIP platform is currently hosted in the datacenter of our university.
Virtualization From a Virtual Machines point of view, CloudMIP is able to host up to 256 VMs each featuring 1 physical CPU and upto 4GB RAM (stands for Amazon medium instance).
The platform consists of the following items:
[1] Front-node
The front-node is a Dell R710 featuring 8 cores XEON@2.8GHz, 48GB DDR3 memory and 6 146GB 15ktpm SAS drives in a RAID6 setup.
This server is running a CentOS 7.2 Linux distribution.
[2] NFS
The NFS server is a powerfull SUN x4500 featuring 48 x 1TB HDD. The setup makes use of the ZFS filesystem leading to a 18TB CloudMIP dedicated storage space with performances > 500MB/s I/O.
This server is running a Scientific Linux 6.5 distribution.
[3] Nodes
Each Dell M1000e chassis features an embedded KVM, two redundant CMCs, 9 fans, 6 redundant power supplies and two Dell PowerConnect M6220 Gigabit Ethernet switches.
Each of the 32 nodes filling the chassis are Dell M610 blades. Each one exhibits the following features:
With such configuration, the whole system features 256 physical cores and 1.6To RAM. On its side, with drives setup in a RAID0 configuration, the achieved I/O throughput is over than 300MB/s.
All nodes feature a local installation of a 64 bits CentOS 7.2 (RHEL clone).