Lab Zero: A First Experiment using GENI

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

Lab Zero:A First Experiment using GENI

Sarah Edwards

GENI Project Office

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 2GENI Lab Zero: last updated Aug 6, 2013

Hands On Exercise

Do a Simple Experiment in GENI

Reserve two VMs connected at Layer 2

Layer 2VMVM


Understand GENI Terminology

slice project

aggregate

experimenter

resource


Use the GENI Portal and Flack


Experiment Workflow• Part I: Design/Setup

• Part II: Execute

• Part III: Finish


The GENI Portal is…

A web-based tool for experimenters to manage

experimenters, projects, and slices.

Includes simple tools to reserve resources.

More to come in the future.


Flack is …

A graphical user interface (GUI) for: – designing topologies in GENI– reserving resources in GENI


Experimenter

An experimenter is a researcher who uses GENI resources

Different types of experimenters have different roles and permissions:• Advisor vs Grad Student• Teacher vs TA vs Student Experimenter


Projects

Projects organize research in GENI

Project

Lead

Members

Slice

Projects contain both people and their experiments

A project is led by a single responsible individual: the project lead

Today we will use a project created for this class

where the project lead is the instructor of this class






Part I: Establish Management Environment

1 Pre-work: Design your experiment

2.1 Pre-work: Create a GENI account

2.2 Pre-work: Project lead (aka professor) adds you to project

Project Name: TrainTheTA

2.3 Generate and Download SSH KeypairTutorial instructions:http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIEducation/SampleAssignments/LabZero/Procedure


Creating a GENI account

• GENI Portal is at:

https://portal.geni.net

• Instructions for creating an account are:

http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/SignMeUp


Using ssh with a public/private keypair

Login to all GENI compute resources using

ssh with a private key

There are several ways to offer your private key to ssh. Today we will use a tool called an ssh agent.

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_geni_ssh_rsa $ ssh username@hostname -p 12345

You should never be prompted for a password to log into a GENI compute node.

If you are, something has always gone wrong.

No password!


Expiration and renewal

slice expiration time ≤ project expiration time

each resource expiration time ≤ slice expiration time

each resource expiration time ≤ aggregate’s max expiration

project

slice

resource

(optional)project

expiration timeslice

expiration timeresource

expiration timenow

In general, to extend the lifetime of your resource reservation, you must renew the slice and all resources

resourceresource

You are here

Projects

Slices

Log Messages

HelpProfile

Tools

Map

2

Login

Join Project

Generate SSH Keys

Screenshot

On your local machine…

> mv ~/Downloads/id_geni_ssh_rsa ~/.ssh/.> chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_geni_ssh_rsa> ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_geni_ssh_rsa

2


Resource

A resource is a piece of infrastructure

A resource can be real or virtual.

Resource specifications (aka. RSpecs) are used to describe and request resources.

Examples:• Compute: computer vs virtual machine (VM)• Wireline Network: VLAN or OpenFlow• Wireless: WiMAX


Aggregate

An aggregate manages a set of reservable resources

Aggregates include:GENI racks

OpenFlow

WiMAX

InstaGENI Rack ExoGENI Rack


Slice

A slice is a container of resources used in an experiment.

A slice can contain resources from one or more aggregates

A slice is in a single project

A slice has an expiration

Slice names are public, reusable and unique


Experimenter(aka Student)

Putting it all together

slice

aggregate

project Member:Lead:

Experimenter(aka Professor)

Layer 2resourceresource


slice

Part I continued:Obtain Resources

3.1 Create a slice

3.2 (optional) Renew your slice

3.3 Reserve two VMs at on aggregate

3.4 Check Whether VMs are Ready to be Used

Layer 2VMVM

3.1

Create Slice

Extend slice expiration

3.2

LaunchFlack

3.3

LaunchFlack

username slice name

all availableaggregates

3.3

Draw two VMs connected by a link

3.3

Change names of VMs

3.3

If using ExoGENI resources, set size

of VM to small

3.3

Set IP and mask of interfaces

Reserve resources

3.3

Resources are READY!!!

3.4 Screenshot






Part II: Execute Experiment

4.1 Login to nodes (two nodes: client & server)

4.2 Download and compile experiment software

5 Execute experiment5.1 Send IP Traffic

5.2 Disable IP and send Layer 2 (non-IP) Traffic

6.1 Logout of nodes

Internet

Data Interfaces

Control Interfaces

ssh

Layer 2

Experimenter

serverclient

Login4.1

$ wget …/pingPlus-0.2.tar.gz$ tar xvfz pingPlus-0.2.tar.gz$ apt-get update $ apt-get install build-essential$ cd pingPlus-0.2 $ make

$ setenv PATH $PATH\:/sbin$ ifconfig

$ wget …/pingPlus-0.2.tar.gz$ tar xvfz pingPlus-0.2.tar.gz$ apt-get update $ apt-get install build-essential$ cd pingPlus-0.2 $ make

$ setenv PATH $PATH\:/sbin$ ifconfig

server

client

4.2

5.1

Worksheet

Client

Control Interface

Name eth ___

IP Address __ . __ . __ . __

Data Interface

Name eth ___

IP Address 10 . 11 . 1 . 1

Subnet Mask 255 . 255 . 255 . 0

Server

Control Interface

Name eth ___

IP Address __ . __ . __ . __

Data Interface

Name eth ___

IP Address 10 . 11 . 1 . 2 /24

Subnet Mask 255 . 255 . 255 . 0

MAC Address __ : __ : __ : __ : __ : __

Project Name: TrainTheTASlice Name: geni<initials>

EtherType: 11001

5.1

# should SUCCEED$ ping 10.11.1.2 –c 5

# disable IP on your nodes$ service neuca stop$ sudo ifconfig eth1726 0.0.0.0

# should FAIL$ ping 10.11.1.2 –c 5

# start L2 client$ sudo pingPlus 01:02:03:04:05:06 eth1726 19001

$ exit

# disable IP on your nodes$ service neuca stop$ sudo ifconfig eth1726 0.0.0.0

# start L2 server

$ sudo pingPlusListener 11001

$ exit

serverclient

5.1

5.2

6.1

Screenshot






Part III: Finish Experiment

When your experiment is done, you should always release your resources.

– Normally this is when you would archive your data– Delete your resources at each aggregate

sliceproject

aggregateexperimenter

resource

Delete Resources

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Congratulations!

You have…–Run your first GENI Experiment!–Exercised your knowledge of GENI

terminology–Used the GENI Portal and Flack


Welcome to GENI!

Keep experimenting!

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Lab Zero: A First Experiment using GENI