Re: Cloudstack 4.2 on XenServer vs KVM

2014-01-26 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Of all the cloud deployments we have been involved with (and that's a lot) XenServer has been the most popular Hypervisor by far. A number of deployments were planning on using KVM but switched to XenServer after initial testing for one reason or another. KVM is being used, and where it's a

Re: Cloudstack 4.2 on XenServer vs KVM

2014-01-26 Thread Nux!
On 26.01.2014 09:47, Geoff Higginbottom wrote: As Shanker says, deploying a cloud with multiple hypervisors is a common approach, ensuring you get the best of both worlds. I think that's the bottom line, there's no one hv to rule them all, so test and use whatever fits your needs. Lucian

RE: Cloudstack 4.2 on XenServer vs KVM

2014-01-26 Thread John Mancuso
- From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 6:59 AM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Cloudstack 4.2 on XenServer vs KVM On 26.01.2014 09:47, Geoff Higginbottom wrote: As Shanker says, deploying a cloud with multiple hypervisors is a common approach, ensuring

Cloudstack 4.2 on XenServer vs KVM

2014-01-25 Thread John Mancuso
So, I am planning on setting up a brand new cloud infrastructure using Cloudstack 4.2 on RHEL6. Cloudstack is hypervisor agnostic- I got that... However there are some differences and features that are available on XenServer that are not available on KVM. This is from a Citrix salesperson:

Re: Cloudstack 4.2 on XenServer vs KVM

2014-01-25 Thread Nux!
On 26.01.2014 00:39, John Mancuso wrote: So, I am planning on setting up a brand new cloud infrastructure using Cloudstack 4.2 on RHEL6. Cloudstack is hypervisor agnostic- I got that... However there are some differences and features that are available on XenServer that are not available on KVM.

Re: Cloudstack 4.2 on XenServer vs KVM

2014-01-25 Thread Shanker Balan
Comments inline. On 26-Jan-2014, at 8:35 am, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 26.01.2014 00:39, John Mancuso wrote: So, I am planning on setting up a brand new cloud infrastructure using Cloudstack 4.2 on RHEL6. Cloudstack is hypervisor agnostic- I got that... However there are some differences