Proxmox, Mirantis Openstack, KVM, oh my
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So I'm looking at reworking an existing private cloud that is not in a good place. It is running on an old version of Ubuntu, and is old enough that none of the online documentation references the correct switches for nova or glance. In some ways we don't really need a private cloud, and that is why the non cloud options are there. I have buy in from all stakeholders to move to a regular VM model if we decide to go that direction. At this point ESXi is not part of the equation. Has anyone here worked with any of the above, and have any recommendations? We have 4 hosts with 4 sockets each that I'd like to be able to do live migration at least.
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Look into XenServer. That looks like the it would be perfect for what you are trying to do.
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My budget is "as little as possible", which puts all but the community version of XenServer or Xen out of my reach.
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@Kelly said:
My budget is "as little as possible", which puts all but the community version of XenServer or Xen out of my reach.
That's okay since only the community version would you reasonably consider
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XenServer has been open sourced (http://xenserver.org/open-source-virtualization-download.html) and is freely available now. 8-)
So you get the Community edition... Even the XenCenter has also been made available (see the link above). If you want support, that is a paid service.
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Dang... @scottalanmiller beat me to it.
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I was going to say XenServer as well. ProxMox to me, other than the nice web interface, is an odd duck from a company I don't trust. XenServer is very enterprise, under heavy development, delivered directly from the Linux Foundation and extremely mature. It is feature rich and should provide you anything that you need.
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@Kelly said:
My budget is "as little as possible", which puts all but the community version of XenServer or Xen out of my reach.
Are there other version? The only thing you would be looking at cost wise would be the cost of support which you may or may not need.
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If you are going to go cloud, of course OpenStack is where to start. Once you go there, you have to choose your hypervisor. Xen and KVM are the choices there. Both work fine.
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If you have a Windows heavy workload, KVM rules. If you have a Linux heavy workload, Xen rules.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I was going to say XenServer as well. ProxMox to me, other than the nice web interface, is an odd duck from a company I don't trust. XenServer is very enterprise, under heavy development, delivered directly from the Linux Foundation and extremely mature. It is feature rich and should provide you anything that you need.
This. The maturity level of XenServer and the amount of ongoing development is amazing.
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Hmm, I had read some things that were very critical of Xen in general because of the way it has been controlled by the larger players and made mostly to suit their needs. Perhaps I need to add it back in to my list of options.
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@coliver said:
@Kelly said:
My budget is "as little as possible", which puts all but the community version of XenServer or Xen out of my reach.
Are there other version? The only thing you would be looking at cost wise would be the cost of support which you may or may not need.
There is, Citrix provides an Enterprise version with Citrix specific extra stuff.
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@scottalanmiller 98% Linux.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@Kelly said:
My budget is "as little as possible", which puts all but the community version of XenServer or Xen out of my reach.
Are there other version? The only thing you would be looking at cost wise would be the cost of support which you may or may not need.
There is, Citrix provides an Enterprise version with Citrix specific extra stuff.
I was not aware, I thought they were doing something like Redhat was doing with RHEL and CentOS.
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you are going to go cloud, of course OpenStack is where to start. Once you go there, you have to choose your hypervisor. Xen and KVM are the choices there. Both work fine.
Any thoughts on Mirantis vs other packages vs vanilla OpenStack?
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@Kelly said:
Hmm, I had read some things that were very critical of Xen in general because of the way it has been controlled by the larger players and made mostly to suit their needs. Perhaps I need to add it back in to my list of options.
FUD. The KVM crowd (IBM and RH specifically) have worked like crazy to discredit Xen because KVM doesn't make much sense with Xen doing so well. Both Xen and KVM are owned by the Linux Foundation. But IBM and RH have their money bet on KVM, so they work hard to promote it.
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@Kelly said:
Hmm, I had read some things that were very critical of Xen in general because of the way it has been controlled by the larger players and made mostly to suit their needs. Perhaps I need to add it back in to my list of options.
Funny, that's actually a concern with KVM, rather than Xen. Xen was academic and purely open source. KVM was built to support the big corporate players. KVM is guided by enormous companies, Xen mostly by the cloud players.
Xen is what powers Amazon, Rackspace and IBM clouds. KVM powers Digital Ocean and Vultr.
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So Xen or community XenServer? Is there a difference?
