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[Jonathan Proulx <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm rolling out OpenStack at MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Lab and I'm wondering how others have balanced supporting
"normal" use of OpenStack's cloud platform for getting work done -vs-
doing research on the platform itself?

For example most of my users want a stable platform but some are
interested in testing performance and stability of experimental
pieces.  Do people typically set this up as separate production and
experimental clouds or use availability zones (or something else).
Particularly on the research side I'm interested in provisioning a
variety of storage backends (particularly for the volume server but
possibly for instance storage as well). It' s unclear to me how or if
I can configure multiple volume storage zones which would be my
preferred implantation so volumes from different backends could be
attached to the same instance and tested under the same conditions.

Thanks,
-Jon

Jonathan Proulx
Sr. Systems Administrator
MIT CSAIL
http://www.csail.mit.edu