ORCA Tutorial: Experimenting with virtual embedded network topologies across widely-dispersed networked clouds

Schedule

Thursday, 8:30 am - 10:00 am

Session Leaders

Ilia Baldine, RENCI

Agenda / Details

The tutorial will cover creating experimental virtual network topologies within ORCA networked cloud eco-system (ExoGENI + other resources) spanning one or more sites, using custom OS boot images, provisioning QoS for network links and experimenting with SDNs.

Tutorial Materials

Tutorial presentation is attached to this page. Here we list some of the relevant commands or configuration files.

$HOME/.flukes.properties

# Do not change these
orca.xmlrpc.url=https://geni.renci.org:11443/orca/xmlrpc
ssh.options=-o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -X
xterm.path=/usr/bin/xterm

# replace XX with your user index (with leading 0, if necessary)
user.keystore=~/Tutorials/ORCA/orcatuXX/ssh/orcatuXX.jks
ssh.key=/home/geni/Tutorials/ORCA/orcatuXX/ssh/orcatuXX-key
ssh.pubkey=/home/geni/Tutorials/ORCA/orcatuXX/ssh/orcatuXX-key.pub

OMNI RSpec

Simple two-node RSpec (also attached to this page).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rspec type="request"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/2
                                          http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/2/request.xsd"
    xmlns:flack="http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/ext/flack/1"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/2">
<node client_id="geni1">
 <sliver_type name="m1.small">
   <disk_image
name="http://geni-images.renci.org/images/regression/regression-deb5-i386.xml"
version="ea80af6601a2a000ec5b050d7e7701f26db096fc" />
 </sliver_type>
 <interface client_id="geni1:0">
    <ip address="172.16.1.1" netmask="255.255.255.0" />
 </interface>
</node>
<node client_id="geni2">
 <sliver_type name="m1.large">
   <disk_image
name="http://geni-images.renci.org/images/regression/regression-deb5-i386.xml"
version="ea80af6601a2a000ec5b050d7e7701f26db096fc" />
 </sliver_type>
 <interface client_id="geni2:0" >
   <ip address="172.16.1.2" netmask="255.255.255.0" />
 </interface>
</node>
<link client_id="center">
  <interface_ref client_id="geni1:0" />
  <interface_ref client_id="geni2:0" />
</link>
</rspec>