Many times during my professional career, I found that being able to use a bunch of servers on a dedicated network is very convenient to perform tests and benchmarks of software for infrastructure provisioning, management and monitoring. When starting to work at CETIC, I had to set up and operate inGRID (in French), a cluster dedicated to Reearch on Grid Computing. I also had the opportunity to design a second cluster (in French) targeted as Research test bed to study, test and contribute to…