[NCLUG] Tuesday August 14th, 2018 NCLUG Meeting

[jdewitt at verinet.com]

What: Tuesday August 14th, 2018 NCLUG Meeting
When: Tuesday August 14th, 2018, 6pm
Where: Fort Collins Creator Hub,
  1304 Duff Dr Unit 15, Fort Collins, CO; map:
 
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1304+Duff+Dr+Unit+15%2C+Fort+Collins%2C+CO%2C+us

Please join us Tuesday at the Collins Creator Hub, 
1304 Duff Dr Unit 15, Fort Collins, CO 80524.

Topic:  
    Come and build a storage cluster with Ceph!

    Ceph (https://www.ceph.com/) is a highly available clustered storage
    platform.  It keeps your data safe and scales to very very large size.
    We'll be building a cluster, adding lots of hard drives to it, putting
    some data in it, and seeing what happens when hardware fails.

    Want to participate?
      No)
        That's OK.  Come and heckle.
      Yes)
        Awesome!  We have several participation options:
        * Bring a SATA (3.5 inch and SATA2, preferably) or USB hard drive
          and we can use it to store bits.  (The contents of this drive
will
          be wiped, so please don't bring your only copy of priceless
family
          photos to the event.)
        * Bring a whole PC!  We can make your system part of the cluster.
          (Ideally this will be running a recent 64-bit x86 Linux OS.
          And have at least one totally free drive to use for holding
data.
          1000baseT Ethernet preferred, but we can handle WiFi only
systems.
          If you're able to get the Ceph Luminous packages from ceph.com
          installed, that's even better.  No need to turn them on or
configure
          them yet.)
        * Bring a client system!  There are several client options:
          - An Amazon S3-like interface
          - A block device interface, it looks like a disk (4.9.x or newer
            kernel preferred)
          - A filesystem interface. (4.9.x or newer kernel preferred)

    Have a look at https://frankencluster.alltheshortonesweretaken.org/
    for a little more info.

    +++
    ATH0

If you have a Linux related topic, short or long, that you would like to
present in a future meeting, please let us know.

Following the meeting, please join us for food.

Space for the meetings is generously provided by The Fort Collins
Creator Hub. Thanks, FCCH! 

For more information about FCCH, please visit:
http://www.fortcollinscreatorhub.org/
http://www.meetup.com/Fort-Collins-Creator-Hub/

See you there!

-- 
James DeWitt