Zintle Gana / Charles Isaacs

Feedback Session Email

24 April 2020
1. General
 Zintle in Lockdown in Saldanah Bay – until May 2020.
 3 GB data provided Thursday last week and another 3GB to ensure connectivity and
communication
 We Zintle, Abubaker and Thomas (LinomthaSupport) will be providing CHPC with a help
Desk ,The Linomtha help desk offers the following functionality:
 Incident logging

 Incident monitoring

 Incident resolution and

 Incident closure.

 Openstack environment. We will be required to log the calls and possibly route them as
well. Incidents will be logged via Telephone (TBC) or email (support@linomtha.com )This Cell
phone will be manned by me and Abubaker on rotation.
 LinomthaICT deployed “ManagedEngine” Zoho service desk application. Training was
provided for the use of this. Scheduled by Helga
 LinomthaICT is responsible for the Invoicing application, and as such, will be required to
provide the customization and installation of the application to users. Michael Fouche will
be scheduling training to enable Zintle and Abubaker to provide this service.
 Zintle and Abubaker need to register on the Supermicro Partner Portal and complete
product training provided.
 Charles will schedule weekly formal feedback sessions to track progress.

2. Activities
I. Openstack Knowledge
 Zintle going through all documentation provided. Zama at CHPC is coaching Zintle
through the material.
 All elements of Openstack, e.g. Ansible, Ceph, Horizon, Nova, Swift, Neutron, Monasca,
Cinder, Heat, etc.
1. About OpenStack: OpenStack its cloud service an infrastructure Service (Iaas) gives
all the components to set up clouds also the set of software tools.
-Cloud Operating system
-Controls compute, Storage and networking resource.
-Makes them manageable and available via API’s
2. Ansible: IT Automation, Configuration management and provisioning tool.
-It uses play books to deploy, manage, build, test and configure
Ansible Features
-Agentless: no need for agent installation and management
-Built on top of Python
-Uses SSH for secure connections
 -Follows Push based architecture for sending configurations
How does Ansible Work?
-Is invoke from a control host.
3. Horizon: Dashboard
4. Nova: Compute Domain
5. Glance: service to launch instances
6. Neutron: Network
7. Swift: Object Storage service
8. Cinder: Block Storage
9. Heat: Orchestration purpose
10. Monasca and Ceilometer: Billing purpose
11. Ceph: It’s a storage Cluster, It’s an Open source
- Why Ceph: Data is growing fast at an exponential rare today so is a solution in that
Because it can store a large data.
- How does Ceph Storage work: Uses Block Device virtual disk attached to bare-metal.
Linux based servers or virtual machine
- In case of our own (chpc Storage) Ceph Storage 4 SSD Servers from Ceph 0-Ceph 3
- 12 SSD in each device
- Each SSD is a Ceph OSD (Object Storage Daemons)
- We have 6 HDD Servers from Ceph 4-Ceph 9
- 22 Hdd in each device
3 Tiers of Storage
- NVME
- SDD
- HDD

 Understand Ansible Play Books

-Ansible playbooks configuration are written as Yaml files.
 To what we were talking about I’m going through the presentation documents

 Learning about OpenStack component’s : What it is Horizon ,Nova , Glance ,Swift ,

Neutron , Cinder , Heat, Celemets , Also ansible and ansible playbooks
-Web front End (Horizon) >< API’s
- Compute Nova – Virtual Machines
-Network Neutron – SDN
- Hardware Bare metal – Ironic
- Object Storage – Swift
- Block - Cinder
- Management (Deployment) – Kolla-Ansible, Tripple O, Bifrost, Kayobe
- Monitoring Tools – Ceilometer and Monasca
- Billing – Cloud Kitty
 Recap on basic Linux commands
 Create a Lab instance
 Understand and deploy Kayobe
 We installed the Invoice application also had a training with Michael.
  Understanding Of the hardware : In our rack we have 2 Mellanox Switches
- Another IPMI Switch
- Ansible Server
- Monitoring or Billing Server
- 3 Controllers Servers
- 2 Compute Servers with 4 nodes in each server
- Ceph Storage explained in the OpenStack Architecture

Linux Certification
Need to certify on Linux… LP01 Exam pass to be done by end of May 2020.
 LPI 101 I’m learning how to:
 ◦Install Linux, making appropriate choices for disk partitioning
 ◦Boot the system, change run levels, shut-down and reboot
 ◦Work effectively at the shell command prompt
 ◦Install and manage packages using both RedHat and Debian tools
 ◦Manage, find, copy, delete, archive and compress files and directories
 ◦Process text streams using pipes, filters and re-direction
 ◦Manage processes and modify process execution priorities
 ◦Search text files with regular expressions and edit files with VI
 ◦Create partitions and file systems, and maintain their integrity
 ◦Control file access permissions