Getting Started with GENI and the GENI Portal - Part II

Schedule

Sunday, 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Session Leaders

Gary Wong University of Utah

Agenda / Details

Understanding the GENI AM API through a simple experiment

Understand how resources are described and reserved in GENI. Learn how to customize those resources using standard mechanisms. Use multiple tools to act on a slice and reserve resources.

This tutorial will discuss the strengths of different types of GENI racks.

While doing this experiment, use and understand the following terms: resource specification (RSpec), sliver, and aggregate manager API (AM API)

Do the experiment using the following tools: Flack, omni (and GENI Experimenter Portal and ssh)

Pre-Requisites

This is the second part of a three part tutorial. Part I or equivalent experience is a pre-requisite for this part.

This tutorial or equivalent experience is a pre-requisite for Part III: Part III/GEMINI or Part III/GIMI.

In addition, the following background will be helpful for this tutorial:

• A basic familiarity and comfort with using a UNIX command line
• A basic understanding of GENI concepts such as those covered in the Introduction to GENI and Experimentation using GENI talk

Please Arrive With:

1. Laptop with a recent version of ​Virtual Box.
2. A GENI Experimenter Portal account.

Results

In Part II, attendees will run their second complete experiment in GENI.

At the end of Part II, attendees will be able to:

• Use and understand the following terms:
  • Resource Specification (aka RSpec)
  • sliver
  • Aggregate Manager API (AM API)
• Customize the resources they reserve using standard mechanisms:
  • understand that a resource specification (RSpec) is an XML file
  • understand that resources are reserved using the aggregate manager API (AM API)
  • understand how to load a topology using an RSpec
  • have edited an RSpec using a tool (Flack) as well as by hand
  • have reserved and deleted resources using a command line tool (omni)
  • know how to specify the image to load on a compute node
  • know how to have software automatically loaded and run on a compute node
  • have run a simple layer 2 experiment
• Use multiple tools to act on a slice and reserve resources
  • understand that all tools use common mechanisms to describe resources (RSpecs) and to reserve resources (the AM API)
• Understand the strengths of different types of GENI racks

Tutorial materials

Instructions:

Exercise 1 - Getting Started with GENI II (Procedure) Exercise 2 - Exercise 2?

Slides: TBD