Hello, I will add just one more:
- uniting all the forks across illumos, so sharing/testing of innovations is possible on larger scale and defragment the ecosystem becausr it helps noone. Cheers, Adam > On 14 Sep 2017, at 20:05, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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-M65a5609ef802d0977697f208 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
