<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div><div>On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Jonathan Proulx <<a href="mailto:jon@jonproulx.com">jon@jonproulx.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi All,<br><br>I'm rolling out OpenStack at MIT Computer Science and Artificial<br>Intelligence Lab and I'm wondering how others have balanced supporting<br>"normal" use of OpenStack's cloud platform for getting work done -vs-<br>doing research on the platform itself?<br><br>For example most of my users want a stable platform but some are<br>interested in testing performance and stability of experimental<br>pieces. Do people typically set this up as separate production and<br>experimental clouds or use availability zones (or something else).<br>Particularly on the research side I'm interested in provisioning a<br>variety of storage backends (particularly for the volume server but<br>possibly for instance storage as well). It' s unclear to me how or if<br>I can configure multiple volume storage zones which would be my<br>preferred implantation so volumes from different backends could be<br>attached to the same instance and tested under the same conditions.<br><br>Thanks,<br>-Jon<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div>Cross-posting this to the openstack-operators list, may get some additional insights there.<br><div><br></div></div></div><div><div>Take care,</div><div><br></div><div>Lorin</div><div>--</div><div>Lorin Hochstein</div><div>Lead Architect - Cloud Services</div><div>Nimbis Services, Inc.</div><div><a href="https://www.nimbisservices.com/">www.nimbisservices.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>