Wright, G.

Paper	Title	Page
MOD006	Migrating Control Servers and Applications to Virtual Machines	43
	G. Wright, C. Angel, C. Finlay, E. Matias CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
	At the Canadian Light Source, there are an ever-increasing number of distributed Controls applications that can run on generic networked computers. This has led to additional servers when segregation by operating system or by LAN has been required. Additional concerns of maintenance of older computer hardware, driver support for older O/S's on new hardware, and growing Virtual LAN issues have led to an adoption of moving applications to Virtual Machines. Our implementation using VMware Infrastructure provides a high reliability environment, with centralized monitoring of performance and simplified expandability. The distributed 'average' reliability hardware has been replaced by a single high-reliability system with built-in redundancies. A new virtual machine can be started in a matter of minutes from an existing pre-configured template, and can be joined to up to four VLANs with a simple software configuration.
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TUP075	Canadian Light Source - Phase II Beamline Control System Status Update	254
	E. Matias, D. Beauregard, R. Berg, G. Black, W. Dolton, R. Igarashi, T. Wilson, G. Wright CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
	The Canadian Light source is in the final commissioning stages of its six Phase II beamlines. These beamlines make use of both EPICS based control as well as experiment data acquisition using a common underlying framework. This paper outlines the approach adopted in deploying control system on this phase of beamlines. The beamline control system make extensive use of QT toolkit and EDM for operation screens and the CERN Root package for data visualization.