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[Matt Joyce <matt.joyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having done this before, what we ended up needing and doing was setting up
our bare metal provisioning to spin up clouds at will and/or transition
systems between clusters.  This included having the need to perform whipes
as data classification needs required.  I recommend in your case keeping an
administrative cluster at first and using it to host whatever bare metal
provisioning systmes d'jour that your decide to use on instances within
it.  This can also be useful for injecting configuration management into
instance networks as well as authentication services.

What we did for network gapping back then was dead simple hacked instances
with an extra interface treated as routers on demand.

Today with stuff like quantum on the horizon this can probably be done
easier.

Cheers,

   Matt

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Jonathan Proulx <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
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