I think there's value in this work for sure, but I'm interested to know exactly what the value is. If we provided VM images, would you deploy them to your VM infrastructure? Is it even possible for an arbitrary VM infrastructure? We use a mix of Xen and VMWare ESX, and I'm genuinely curious whether we could deploy an OVF appliance to that framework without modification. OVF seems a good target format since it's open and designed for such a use case, but I'm interested in other target formats that may be equally or possibly more desirable.
My interest in this work is more than curiosity. I've developed a set of VM images that demonstrate a HA setup for CAS using a virtualized hardware load balancer, clustered servers using Memcached for the ticket registry, and JBoss w/JBoss Cache for a clustered client setup. The intention at present is to provide a resource to developers to develop and test features intended for HA environments, but I imagine that with refinement this work could be something that folks could actually deploy. There are a _lot_ of questions about how to do this in a way that folks would fine useful, but I'm eager to begin the discussion. M -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
