[atlas] VM probes (was Re: Feature request for IP record route feature in RIPE Atlas)
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Daniel Karrenberg
daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net
Tue Nov 10 10:36:48 CET 2015
At this time are 485 connected probes and two connected anchors in Russia. As far as I know Soekris boxes can be bought in Russia. Daniel On 10.11.15 10:07 , Pavel Odintsov wrote: > Hello, Community! > > I like idea about VM based Anchor's. > > For example in Russia we have so much companies who really want to > host RIPE Anchor hosting but it's really hard due to so much > bureaucracy for computer hardware import. It's really sophisticated > and long task. > > VM based Anchors could help in this case. But they should be > designated as "second-rate monitoring". So somebody who interested in > monitoring over non-so-reliable-vm's could use they. Actually, this > VM's should "mine" less points than full-size-Anchor. > > We could select some unified way to run VM's. I prefer VmWare because it's: > 1) Free > 2) Simple to deploy > 3) Mature > 4) Very simple VM deploy > > Xen, KVM are pretty too but they are based on non standard linux > distributions and it could be a configuration issue. OpenVZ/Docker and > LXC should be avoided because (actually I have so much experience with > they and I'm not a technology hater) they are not offer dedicated > service and not isolated perfectly from each other processes. > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:33:01AM +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: >>> >From my personal, informal assessment I advise against supporting VMs. I >>> recommend a thorough assessment of the data quality, the costs and the >>> effects on RIPE Atlas as a whole before diving into soloutioneering. >> >> From experience running a recursive DNS on a VM platform, I'd also speak >> against supporting VMs. Unpredictable load elsewhere on the same host >> can (and does) lead to UDP/ICMP packet loss, which the "Atlas VM" won't >> be able to differenciate from "something on the path is broken/lossy". >> >> Gert Doering >> -- NetMaster >> -- >> have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? >> >> SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard >> Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann >> D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) >> Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 > > >
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