Re: CloudStack with Xen and vShere
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I'm evaluating CloudStack, I have a couple of questions I hope someone can clarify for me: Q 1: Is CloudStack compatible with Xen Hypervisor (xen.org)? the installation manual refers to Citrix XenServer but not Xen as far as I could see. CloudStack uses XAPI to interact with Xen - so technically Xen.org will work provided you have XAPI in place. In practice this means XenServer, XCP, or Xen + XAPI on Debian/Ubuntu. Q 2: to continue using my vSphere hosts do I need to keep vCenter? Yes - CloudStack interacts with the vCenter API, not directly with vSphere hosts. --David
Re: CloudStack with Xen and vShere
thanks!! To test Xen should I just follow the installations steps in the Installation Manual for Citrix Xenserver, but using the binaries from xen.org? any good instructional links on xen and cloudstack? Thanks, again!! Paul On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:37 AM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote: On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I'm evaluating CloudStack, I have a couple of questions I hope someone can clarify for me: Q 1: Is CloudStack compatible with Xen Hypervisor (xen.org)? the installation manual refers to Citrix XenServer but not Xen as far as I could see. CloudStack uses XAPI to interact with Xen - so technically Xen.org will work provided you have XAPI in place. In practice this means XenServer, XCP, or Xen + XAPI on Debian/Ubuntu. Q 2: to continue using my vSphere hosts do I need to keep vCenter? Yes - CloudStack interacts with the vCenter API, not directly with vSphere hosts. --David
Re: CloudStack with Xen and vShere
Until Cloudstack 4.1 is released I suggest you stick to XenServer 6.0 and not try to swap its default xen. I finally have a custom build of CS 4.0.1 working with Ubuntu + xcp-xapi but it was a real pain to get there and don't recommend you go that route for eval purposes. CS 4.1 is supposed to make those pains go away and bring proper support for XS 6.2, XCP 1.6 and Ubuntu/Debian + xcp-xapi. Cheers Carlos On Apr 7, 2013, at 8:59 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote: thanks!! To test Xen should I just follow the installations steps in the Installation Manual for Citrix Xenserver, but using the binaries from xen.org? any good instructional links on xen and cloudstack? Thanks, again!! Paul On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:37 AM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote: On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I'm evaluating CloudStack, I have a couple of questions I hope someone can clarify for me: Q 1: Is CloudStack compatible with Xen Hypervisor (xen.org)? the installation manual refers to Citrix XenServer but not Xen as far as I could see. CloudStack uses XAPI to interact with Xen - so technically Xen.org will work provided you have XAPI in place. In practice this means XenServer, XCP, or Xen + XAPI on Debian/Ubuntu. Q 2: to continue using my vSphere hosts do I need to keep vCenter? Yes - CloudStack interacts with the vCenter API, not directly with vSphere hosts. --David
