Proxmox, Mirantis Openstack, KVM, oh my
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So what is it about XenServer that makes it preferred over KVM particularly for Linux workloads?
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@Kelly said:
So what is it about XenServer that makes it preferred over KVM particularly for Linux workloads?
Performance. KVM works hard to make Windows fast. Xen works hard to make Linux fast.
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Great, thanks for all the input. I appreciate it.
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Just so I'm clear on the XenServer stuff... XenCenter (the management tool that is equivalent to VMware's vSphere) has also been open sourced, right?
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@dafyre said:
Just so I'm clear on the XenServer stuff... XenCenter (the management tool that is equivalent to VMware's vSphere) has also been open sourced, right?
I don't think so. It is included in the XenServer package but wasn't one of the tools that was open sourced.
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According to http://xenserver.org/partners/developing-products-for-xenserver/21-xencenter-development/88-xc-dev-home.html it appears to be.
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@dafyre said:
Just so I'm clear on the XenServer stuff... XenCenter (the management tool that is equivalent to VMware's vSphere) has also been open sourced, right?
No, it is free but not open source.
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@coliver said:
@dafyre said:
Just so I'm clear on the XenServer stuff... XenCenter (the management tool that is equivalent to VMware's vSphere) has also been open sourced, right?
I don't think so. It is included in the XenServer package but wasn't one of the tools that was open sourced.
Citrix does not own it to open it.
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@Kelly said:
According to http://xenserver.org/partners/developing-products-for-xenserver/21-xencenter-development/88-xc-dev-home.html it appears to be.
Oh, that's news good to know.
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@Kelly said:
According to http://xenserver.org/partners/developing-products-for-xenserver/21-xencenter-development/88-xc-dev-home.html it appears to be.
Oh neat, that is new. Maybe they finally got everything cleared to open it.
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@Kelly said:
According to http://xenserver.org/partners/developing-products-for-xenserver/21-xencenter-development/88-xc-dev-home.html it appears to be.
Maybe now we will see a decent *nix version of it. Although the CLI commands are pretty easy to use.
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@coliver would be awesome. Someone needs to get on that. Although the XAPI has been there for a long time and no one has made the interface that we want yet.
Really running on Linux is pointless, what is needed is a web interface. Anything else is just silly.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver would be awesome. Someone needs to get on that. Although the XAPI has been there for a long time and no one has made the interface that we want yet.
Really running on Linux is pointless, what is needed is a web interface. Anything else is just silly.
Xen Orchestra is around but they have a silly limitation on the number of hosts it can manage.
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Yeah, it's limited nearly to pointless.
