• This page is meant to organize the discussion around the virtualization of Fermi Science Analysis Systems software. Some pieces of software today have a long history and there is a clear lack of man power to have these run on recent platforms. Some software are stuck on RHEL5, other on RHEL6, others run on modern platform. A detailed status point has to be made on each piece to understand the way forward: maintenance, VM, container.
• Information on this page were first gathered from a number of reference pages:
  • Fermi Software Week Winter 2017
    • Software Week Meeting notes
    • Close out notes
    • Virtualization Discussion

Summary

• Here is summary table with the main software packages
  • created by Johan on Tuesday 6^th 2017
    
    

     

    Name	Platforms	Dependencies	Upgradable?	Existing VM	Existing container	Links	Comments	Date
    FastCopy	RHEL5	?	?			FASTCopy processing chain	to be reviewed by experts	06 Jun 2017

1. Draft

•  What needs virtualization?

• • Halfpipe sounds like a candidate..
  •  No, it runs on RHEL6. But unlikely to move beyond. So yes, virtualize at RHEL6.
  •  GlastRelease is also stuck on RHEL6
  •  Couple APIs need QT, using commercial version
  •  Release Manager uses free version of QT
  •  Unsure why using commercial version.
  •  Might be worth exploring move to free version
•  Need to have a discussion about FastCopy, as it requires RHEL5.
•  ISOC ops boxes are mostly under RHEL5. Demonstrated that the tools can be run under RHEL6.
•  Backup ISOC is no longer supported.

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