1 Het begint met een idee

The Green LabLab environment and tools

Giuseppe Procaccianti, Ivano Malavolta

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

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

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

3 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

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

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

VMware environment

4 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

Lab architecture

Green Lab mgmt server

IP: 145.108.225.2

vSphere Web Client

VM

vCenter Server IP: 145.108.224.230

VMTest VMs

runs

web access

hosts

hosts

VMware test cluster 1

IP: 145.108.225.4VMware 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

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

5 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

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

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

6 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

How to access the lab

● Remote access to the lab:

○ Go to page http://greenlab.vu.nl/experiment/

○ Login as student with pwd GreenLab16!

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

7 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

How to access the lab

● vSphere Web Client:

○ Username: student@vsphere.local

○ Pwd: GreenLab16!

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

8 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

How to access the VMs

● VM console

○ IP addresses

○ SSH, SCP...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

9 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

Data collection

● SurfDrive folder

○ Data files

○ Processing (R)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

10 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab

Try it yourself!

● Set up your mini-experiment

● Split up into teams

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Thank you!

g.procaccianti@vu.nl

i.malavolta@vu.nl 11 Giuseppe Procaccianti / S2 group / The Green Lab