Production OpenStack Cluster at NCSA (nebula)

[Mike Freemon <mfreemon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A question came up today at the NDS developers meeting about the version 
of OpenStack being installed on the new production cluster at NCSA.  The 
answer is Kilo.

https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/NDS/2015-07-10+Developer+Meeting

The current status of this OpenStack cluster (called nebula) is that it 
is going into friendly-user mode, to be followed by a brief outage, then 
entering stable operations.

The NCSA team supporting nebula is requesting that we provide them with 
a list of users who will need access to nebula.  I will make sure that 
everyone who has access to the VLAD system will also have access to 
nebula.  I think this will cover our immediate needs, but if not, please 
let me know.

Some additional details:

> ... the goal of this initial build of
> the openstack system, is to verify the changes to the newest OS and
> openstack versions. We would like to test and understand the
> limitations of the base system OSes and the Kilo version of Openstack.
> Currently the system will have 200 compute cores and 180 TB of Cinder
> based storage. This is not the final size, but is the test âfriendlyâ
> user mode we are aiming for at this time. We expect that as we test
> this setup we will learn where we have limitations in the system. From
> these test we expect to take a downtime in late Aug to rebuild and
> verify the any changes we plan to make to the Openstack system. After
> this downtime the cluster will stay in its current version for at least
> 1 year without updates. Our goal is a consistent and permanent option
> for cloud computing. We are currently planning for the rebuild on the
> week of Aug 18th , however we can adjust that schedule if we donât have
> enough information from the users by that time.

- Mike