402123 - Clone unit test slaves for staging environment

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

We have a staging master setup now, but need copies of the current slaves for testing code changes, etc... before they go live. 

The slaves that are currently running are:
* qm-centos5-01
* qm-xserve01
* qm-winxp01
* qm-win2k3-01

We *shouldn't* need to close the tree for this, as long as we only take down one slave at a time for cloning.

Comment 1

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

What do you want these cloned as (hostnames & vm names)?

Comment 2

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Er, these aren't all VMs so directly cloning I can't do. In particular,
qm-win2k3-01 is a physical HP DL360.

Infact, the only one that is a VM is qm-winxp01.  So this is a hardware request
too, right?  

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

I wasn't sure which were real hardware or not. Performance isn't critical in the staging environment, so I think we could get away with virtualizing them. 

We will need real hardware for the unittest+leaks boxes (bug 397724), so maybe it make sense to use real hardware throughout for the sake of consistency.

robcee/bhearsum: thoughts?

Comment 4

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

A bit of correction - 

These two are VMs and I can clone them whenever.
* qm-centos5-01
* qm-winxp01

These two are phyiscal boxes.  One's an Apple Xserve and the other is an HP DL360.  

* qm-xserve01
* qm-win2k3-01

Could you work with a Mini and a VM?

Comment 5

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

Yeah, I was going to suggest using a mini as a replacement for the xserve and a vm for the win2k3 machine.

Comment 6

[Justin Fitzhugh]

Are these critical to keeping the tree open?  If so, I'd like to use hardware that is production quality and reliable (i.e. not mini's).  Comments on the criticality of these machines?

Comment 7

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Justin: the new slaves we're asking for here are for a staging environment where we can test our code changes without(or at least before) breaking the production setup. As such, they will never be critical. 

As robcee/mrz note, they can also be a little slower or virtualized, as long as they are running the same OS/version/software as their counterpart production slave.

Comment 8

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Okay, the two VMs will be cloned as two VMs.

The OSX and Windows box will be Minis.  Windows will be a fresh install.  I'll clone the OSX box next time I'm at the colo.

Comment 9

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

qm-vmware01 doesn't have enough disk space to make a clone.  I need a window to manually move and clone qm-winxp01 - can I shut that VM down any time?

Comment 10

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

I have qm-centos05-01 cloned but the vmware tools are stale and need updating which can only be done from the console and I can't figure out root's login.

Can someone email me out-of-band?

Comment 11

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> qm-vmware01 doesn't have enough disk space to make a clone.  I need a window to
> manually move and clone qm-winxp01 - can I shut that VM down any time?

Yes, do it when you get a chance.

Emailing you login creds for qm-centos5-01

Comment 12

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

qm-stage-centos5-01 / 10.2.73.29 is up.

Comment 13

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > qm-vmware01 doesn't have enough disk space to make a clone.  I need a window to
> > manually move and clone qm-winxp01 - can I shut that VM down any time?
> 
> Yes, do it when you get a chance.

About two hours for the first copy to complete, about the same to clone it.  Running right now.

Comment 14

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

qm-winxp01 is back up.

qm-stage-winxp01 / 10.2.73.18 is up.

Comment 15

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Sean - need new installs of OSX and win2k3 on Minis.

Comment 16

[Sean Alamares]

Name was truncated to qm-stage-win2k3, but is otherwise setup as specified. Justin is going to do OSX.

Comment 17

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

qm-stage-osx-01 / 10.2.73.62 is up.

qm-stage-win2k3-01 / 10.2.73.63 is up.

Logins sent to coop.

Comment 18

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Mass move of Core:Testing bugs to mozilla.org:ReleaseEngineering. Filter on RelEngMassMove to ignore.