On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Curtis, > > Thank you, interesting reading... I have few questions > > Do you see any benefits using VCL with OpenStack versus VCL's back-end > (ESXi/KVM)? > Is your OpenStack deployment configured to provide HA for VCL's VM > computers? > Hi Dmitri, First, I am a big fan of OpenStack, so I'm probably biased. All those free t-shirts.... :) I think the first benefit is that we can eventually put our current VCL infrastructure into a larger cloud. Right now it's in its own cloud, but we are probably going to put it into a larger cloud that has more than one tenant, and doing that will be straightforward with OpenStack as the back end. I think the image management systems, glance, is also beneficial. It's kinda hacked into VCL right now, but glance is a powerful image management system, including image metadata. Also, either it can now or will be able to store and use images from object storage such as swift. Those are the major things I can think of right now. IMHO, as IaaS becomes more prevalent, fewer and fewer organizations will run separate virtualization clusters for VCL, and will manage servers via an API from a much larger cloud. As far as HA--no, not really, we just have one cloud controller, so single nova database, etc. Is that what you mean? Thanks, Curtis. > > > On Feb 14, 2013, at 16:16 , Curtis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I just put up a blog post on how we are using OpenStack and Apache VCL > on the Canadian OpenStack Users Group (CanStack) blog here: > > > > > http://blog.canstack.ca/2013/02/14/vcl-openstack-reference-architecture.html > > > > Though I didn't put in much information about the OpenStack VLC module > we are using, but it's at least an idea of what we have in terms of > hardware, networking gear, and a few OpenStack tidbits for a small private > cloud. > > > > Thanks, > > Curtis. > > > > PS. If you see any errors let me know. :) > > > > -- > > Twitter: @serverascode > > Blog: serverascode.com > > > > -- > Thank you, > > Dmitri Chebotarov > VCL Sys Eng, Engineering & Architectural Support, TSD - Ent Servers & > Messaging > 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 > Phone: (703) 993-6175 | Fax: (703) 993-3404 > > > > -- Twitter: @serverascode Blog: serverascode.com
