Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack

2016-03-06 Thread Rob Echlin
Hi Rick,(Way behind on Linux club email, sorry) I work for Wind River. We provide a product that runs OpenStack, and I think it uses Docker for the VMs.It looks like it is no longer available by itself, but is a part of our Internet of Things offering, Wind River Helix Cloud.If your project want

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack

2016-02-02 Thread Rick Leir
Hi JF, John This long document mentions OpenStack in seven places. http://www.ssc-spc.gc.ca/pages/dcc-rad-eng.html If your VMware is already up and running, then you might find it tough sledding to propose a multi-year project to implement OpenStack. Quicker with a few people who have good exper

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack

2016-02-02 Thread jf
Actually, without disclosing much more, I can say that this is in the context of a very large implementation, very large systems. As I realise this is not necessarily an everyday situation, does nayone know of a large company who uses such OpenStack in a large implementation ? Something local to O

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-02 Thread John Argus
Jean-Francois, I work at SSC and some of my colleagues on the design side implementing something called RAD. Rapid something or other. What they designed is almost exactly what you describe below. I can get you in touch with them to see if what they implemented will work for you. John Argus

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack

2016-02-02 Thread Rick Leir
OpenStack is a big complex system which is used for large systems. For most cases Docker is much more practical. But as others have said, what will it be used for. Will you host it yourself? Will you run a mix of OS's? Distributed servers? Size? Uptime constraints? Security? Budget? Schedule?

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-02 Thread jf
WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY “CLOUD”?       THE “REMAINING”? DEFINE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!   Basically what we have now is an implementation of VMware Automation Center.   What we are looking for is something that has the same or close to the same functionality of vmware automation center without

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-01 Thread jf
I think you have good points. The question came from a colleague from Shared Services Canada I used to work with. I will try to gather more details from him. His question was quick, and I agree we may need more detailed question, perhaps a better context would help.. Quoting Alex Pilon : What

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-01 Thread Bill Strosberg
On 16-02-01 02:11 PM, Alex Pilon wrote: > What do you mean by “NCR”? I would assume National Capital Region (unless you live in Quebec where prominent signs indicate la ville de Quebec is the National Capital). Twenty five years ago it would have meant National Cash Register (these were quaint an

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-01 Thread Alex Pilon
What do you mean by “NCR”? On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 06:42:25PM +, j...@messier.ca wrote: > Someone at my office was wondering about different cloud solutions, and > three solutions were considered: What exactly do you mean by “cloud”? IaaS? PaaS? SaaS? What exactly on any of these? If SaaS, a

[OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-01 Thread jf
Someone at my office was wondering about different cloud solutions, and three solutions were considered: Microsoft Azure - Other contacts told him to stay away VMware vRA - Very expensive OpenStack - The remaining option Does anyone use or knows a place where OpenStack is actually implemented ?