{"id":51,"date":"2007-06-07T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ale.org\/new\/2007\/06\/07\/ale-central-mtg-for-thursday-june-14-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:08:24","slug":"ale-central-mtg-for-thursday-june-14-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"ALE Central Mtg. for Thursday, June 14, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nWe have a special visiting guest speaker<br \/>\nfrom New York offering our ALE Central<br \/>\npresentation for Thursday, June 14th:<br \/>\n<font size=\"+1\"><br \/>\nVirtual On Demand Hardware<br \/>\n<\/font> <\/strong><br \/>\nPresented by Jamie McClelland,<br \/>\nICT organizer for the USSF<\/p>\n<p>Synopsis:<br \/>\n   There was a time when a computer was a computer and<br \/>\na hard drive was a hard drive. With new technologies like<br \/>\nLogical Volume Manager (LVM) and Xen, that time seems<br \/>\nto be passing rapidly.  LVM provides us with new ways to<br \/>\ncombine physical hard drives into pools that can be easily<br \/>\nand dynamically allocated, re-sized, and re-allocated.  Xen<br \/>\nallows us to run multiple instances of linux on a single server,<br \/>\nmigrate instances from one server to another, and easily<br \/>\nre-allocate memory and drive space between instances.<br \/>\nIn short &#8211; these are dramatically powerful tools for separating<br \/>\nwhat you are doing from the physical constraints of the<br \/>\nmachines you are doing it on.<\/p>\n<p>During this presentation, we will take a step-by-step tour<br \/>\ndemonstrating how to turn one server with one hard drive<br \/>\ninto one server with multiple virtual instances all with multiple<br \/>\nvirtual hard drives. The demo will be carried out on a Debian<br \/>\nEtch system featuring lvm2, xen and xen-tools.<\/p>\n<p>Bio:<br \/>\nJamie is a co-director of May First\/People link, a unionized,<br \/>\nmembership-based Internet hosting organization. In addition<br \/>\nto the expected duties of system administration, support, and<br \/>\nprogramming projects, he&#8217;s actively involved in organizing<br \/>\ntechnologists around the US Social Forum (being hosted in<br \/>\nAtlanta June 27 through July 1). In one capacity or<br \/>\nanother, Jamie has spent the last eight years providing<br \/>\ntechnology support to nonprofits and activists organizations.<br \/>\nPrior to technology work, Jamie has worked in a variety of<br \/>\norganizations and movements, including Libraries for the<br \/>\nFuture, Act Up!, and ACORN.<\/p>\n<p>==============<br \/>\nMeeting time is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm<br \/>\nDirections to Emory Law School are at the<br \/>\nCentral Meeting link on the side bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual On Demand Hardware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}