Greetings George, Are you interested in a paid solution or a do-it-yourself environment? If your answer is do it yourself, then you should have a look at the open sourced smart data center code and documentation in github.
—George > Στις 8 Δεκ 2015, 16:52, ο/η George Mamalakis <[email protected]> έγραψε: > > Hi everybody, > > We are looking for a virtualisation solution and during my search I came > across SmartOS. Our project will not be large, it will be initially comprised > of 4-5 48core machines and we will need to be able to add physical machines > no more than once or twice a year. We need to be able to have network > separation among some of our VMs (so we need virtual network support, 802.1q > vlan support, etc), we want to have a (web) interface to manage VMs and we > wish our solution of choice to allow for high availability, in the sense that > a VM will need to be able to maintain its state if one or more of the > underlying physical devices have crashed, depending on our configuration. > > I've read that SmartOS supports live migration and high availability through > Quemu using SmartDataCenter, and I also read that FiFo accomplishes something > similar using LeoFS. As far as LeoFS is concerned, its documentation mentions > that the consistency level is responsible of the redundancy that is > established, but this configuration is performed only once, during the design > phase. This, to my understanding, is a somewhat limiting factor, since even > in our setup, which will not change more than twice a year (by adding new > physical nodes), we cannot be certain from day one how much our > infrastructure will grow in order to plan ahead. And even if we did, I don't > know how much the additional write replicas that will have to be assigned > during the design phase -for example- will affect the overall performance. On > the other hand, I am not sure how SDC's high availability solution works, and > hence I decided to ask this list how high availability can be achieved in a > SmartOS-based virtualisation environment. > > Some more requirements I was given by my team involve configurable VM boot > order and docker, but I explained them that the latter is not mandatory. > > Thank you for your time in advance, > > George Mamalakis > > -- > George Mamalakis > > IT and Security Officer, > Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki), > PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki), > MSc (Imperial College of London) > > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering > Aristotle University of Thessaloniki > > phone number : +30 (2310) 994379 >
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