Support for IBM Softlayer

[samadhicsec]

It would be good to have support and instructions for running this against the IBM SoftLayer (http://www.softlayer.com/) IaaS.

[kuldeepJS]

Is there any documentation which can help in, how can we plugin different cloud offerings? This can be a generic solution for running it against any solution for IaaS.

[voellm]

@kuldeepJS - Check out the static machine machine config instructions in the README.md
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker/blob/master/README.md
Section title:
ADVANCED: HOW TO RUN BENCHMARKS WITHOUT CLOUD PROVISIONING (eg: local workstation)

This would allow any already provisioned machine to work.

The ask however is to use the Soflayer CLI. Marking as a feature ask.

[srinivaslpalli]

Hi voellm,

I have the same above requirement, I want to use for Oracle VMs and I followed the instructions mentioned in the above you mentioned link, but its still trying the commands which are related google cloud.
used below command, anything extra I have to do to run on Oracle VMs(not cloud provisioned)
./pkb.py --static_vm_file=temp.json --machine_type=rhel --benchmarks=ping

[root@xxx PerfKitBenchmarker-0.17.0]# cat temp.json
[
{
"ip_address": "xx", <------ mentioned public IP
"user_name": "root",
"keyfile_path": "" ,
"scratch_disk_mountpoints": ["/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00"]
},
{
"ip_address": "xx", <------ mentioned public IP
"user_name": "root",
"keyfile_path": "" ,
"scratch_disk_mountpoints": ["/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00"],
"ssh_port": 22
}

[voellm]

It looks like you are setting --machine_type which you dont want to do
unless you have a mixed static+cloud run going.

Here you want to set "--os_type=rhel" not "--machine_type=rhel"

Please let me know if this work properly so I can close the issue.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:25 AM, srinivaslpalli [email protected]
wrote:

Hi voellm,

I have the same above requirement, I want to use for Oracle VMs and I
followed the instructions mentioned in the above you mentioned link, but
its still trying the commands which are related google cloud.
used below command, anything extra I have to do to run on Oracle VMs(not
cloud provisioned)
./pkb.py --static_vm_file=temp.json --machine_type=rhel --benchmarks=ping

[root@xxx PerfKitBenchmarker-0.17.0]# cat temp.json
[
{
"ip_address": "xx", <------ mentioned public IP
"user_name": "root",
"keyfile_path": "" ,
"scratch_disk_mountpoints": ["/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00"]
},
{
"ip_address": "xx", <------ mentioned public IP
"user_name": "root",
"keyfile_path": "" ,
"scratch_disk_mountpoints": ["/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00"],
"ssh_port": 22
}

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[voellm]

FYI the community+google have recently added DigitalOcean, RackSpace, and Openstack as Cloud providers. No Softlayer yet but we would be happy to work with IBM or the community to get it added.

[voellm]

We have was over 10 providers in PKB. Know of anyone at Softlayer that can take this on?

[cbhall]

We would be interested in contributing code to support SoftLayer. Two things though... Can you give us a pointer to the CCLA we need to sign (I assume it probably is https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-corporate?csw=1)? Is there a separate channel over which we can discuss contributions, requirements, time frame, etc?

[hildrum]

There's a guide for adding a provider in the wiki here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker/wiki/Adding-a-new-cloud-provider

That seems to be the right CLA.

If you need to setup a meeting or contact someone outside of Github, you can contact me ([email protected]), or [email protected] (@noahl).

[khayama-zz]

+1