On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 04:49:26PM +0000, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > illumos *had* Xen support. It may still be there and work? I don't know > if anyone has done anything with it in ages. >
Afaik DilOS has patches for supporting more recent versions of Xen than XVM in Illumos/Opensolaris. http://www.dilos.org/ https://dilos-dev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DS/pages/1343539/Xen -- Pasi > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:06 AM Miles Fidelman > <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/14/17 3:30 AM, Perttu Aaltonen wrote: > > > Hello all. I've been following the list for a long time and rarely > post anything, but now wanted to chime in. > >> On 14 Sep 2017, at 10:31, Alexander Pyhalov <[2][email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> 2) Zone/VM live migration. Don't tell me "it's too hard, use > clusters". I want to have an illumos-based cluster for virtualization > purposes, VMware/Linux KVM/even OpenVZ do it, why can't we? > > I agree. There are a lot of "legacy" software that are not engineered > for the cloud and only runs on Windows. The developers of these kinds of > products seem to often think clustering/HA as a solved problem with > VMware and not bother building it to the product itself. But VMware > replication/HA/Fault Tolerance is complex, finicky and often out of > reach for very small businesses due to cost. I'm not very familiar with > HAST and DRBD, but seems like the added complexity might sometimes > outweigh the expected benefits there as well. I've read varying success > with OmniOS as a built in storage provider for ESXi through iSCSI or > NFS. > > > > Ideally this would be built in to Illumos/ZFS. I already use SmartOS > and Znapzend for replicating KVM VM's between hosts, but it's only crash > consistent. VSS or file system quiescing support would improve this. In > small business space, there usually isn't a need for a full lock-step > fault tolerance type automated HA with shared storage and what have you, > so ability to bring up replicated VM's on a backup host in a consistent > state would go a long way. I've just recently set up replication between > ESXi hosts with Veeam and ZFS send would just be so much faster and > easier to set up and use. > > > > Better yet, LX Zone type ability to run Windows software directly in a > zone would be a dream, but probably quite impossible. > > > > > Well how about just porting Xen & DRBD to Illumos. Not so much > "innovation" as simply basic porting. (Now, DRBD is 2-node only, so > maybe Sheepdog - again, not innovation, but incredibly useful.) > > Miles Fidelman > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T83f198c8597cf8e3-M3a899ec8c4a895b47d329d27 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
