[atlas] probes on VMs

Hi,

thanks for bringing this up again. We will have to consider our options 
and come up with a way forward with this.
We will let you know soon with our implementation plan.

Kind Regards,
Andreas Strikos
RIPE NCC

On 28/03/15 14:30, Colin Johnston wrote:
> As one who supported this in the first place I think definitely should be taken up a due to cost saving and b due to power savings.
>
> the virtual machine may affect measurement times to a extent but you need to understand that there maybe virtual routers/virtual firewalls in the network path so don’t blame just the source vm machine
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> also virtual probes could help to identify vm environment performance problems
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> Colin
>   
>> On 27 Mar 2015, at 08:30, Klaus Darilion <klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I just found an old thread about virtual probes:
>> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2013-June/000849.html
>>
>> I second the problems of virtual hosts and that the results may not as
>> good as other probes result, but there is a big advantage for virtual
>> probes - I can host them in the cloud.
>>
>> For example, I just wanted to debug routing issues from the Microsoft
>> Cloud in Brazil to our server. Unfortunately there are no probes in this
>> Cloud's AS. With a virtual probe it would be quite easy. I order an VM
>> with Microsoft, and have my probe in the chosen datacenter. The probe
>> could be tagged with "VM" to show that it is running on shared resources.
>>
>> Of course the VM will produce extra costs, but there may be sponsors,
>> and the smallest VM is usually enough. For example , one possibility
>> would be, that the sponsor donates the money, e.g. 10-20€ per month, and
>> chooses the cloud location. RIPE will then rent the VMs and run the
>> probes. With several sponsors we could get a nice cloud coverage, and we
>> could deploy probes in networks where the provider does not want to
>> hosts physical probes.
>>
>> regards
>> Klaus
>>
>>
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