This presentation is about a lecture I gave within the "Green Lab" course of the Computer Science master, Software Engineering and Green IT track of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: http://masters.vu.nl/en/programmes/computer-science-software-engineering-green-it/index.aspx http://www.procaccianti.me

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The Green Lab
Lab environment and tools
Giuseppe Procaccianti, Ivano Malavolta

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Welcome to the Green Lab!
● Goals for this lab session:
○ Get to know the lab instrumentation (servers and meters);
○ Be able to access the lab and the infrastructure
○ Start/stop VMs and interact with them
○ Perform a mini-experiment and collect data

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Lab environment
● 4 servers in total
○ 2 management servers
○ 2 test machines
● 1 Management/Data aggregation server
● 1 VMware management server
● 1 VMware cluster configured

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VMware environment
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Lab architecture
Green Lab mgmt
server
IP: 145.108.225.2
vSphere Web
Client
VM
vCenter Server
IP: 145.108.224.230
VM
Test VMs
runs
web access
hosts
hosts
VMware test
cluster 1
IP: 145.108.225.4
VMware mgmt
server
IP: 145.108.225.3
Subject Apps
VMware test
cluster 2
IP: 145.108.225.5
runs
Wattsup
PRO
Wattsup
PRO
measures
measures
accesses
Experiment Portal
Your Web browser
runs

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Power metering
● 2 Wattsup PRO power meters
○ 1 per each server (excluding management)
● 1 fine-grained monitoring system (HvA)
○ Not in use for the course

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How to access the lab
● Remote access to the lab:
○ Go to page http://greenlab.vu.nl/experiment/
○ Login as student with pwd GreenLab16!

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How to access the lab
● vSphere Web Client:
○ Username: student@vsphere.local
○ Pwd: GreenLab16!

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How to access the VMs
● VM console
○ IP addresses
○ SSH, SCP...

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Data collection
● SurfDrive folder
○ Data files
○ Processing (R)

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Try it yourself!
● Set up your mini-experiment
● Split up into teams

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Thank you!
g.procaccianti@vu.nl
i.malavolta@vu.nl
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