Andrei, I am hopeful the next incarnation of XenServer will be much better/modern, with support for CEPH, GlusterFS etc.
Re KVM snapshotting, KVM can do live snapshots of the volumes+memory (you can do it with "virsh"), but ACS doesn't support it; forgot why. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrei Mikhailovsky" <and...@arhont.com> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 21:24:06 > Subject: Re: XenServer > I would happily switch to XenServer once they will have ceph support. I do > prefer XenServer and the feature list of ACS + XenServer is a bit better. > > It sucks not having proper snapshotting in KVM where one can create the whole > vm > snapshot (volumes + memory) very quickly without the need to bother > snapshotting every volume and wait for ages. > > Andrei > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "motty cruz" <motty.c...@gmail.com> >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 8:43:32 PM >> Subject: Re: XenServer > >> I am no expert by any means but my personal opinion, I really like >> XenServer a lot better. I have a cluster of about 5 machines running >> KVM, >> ACS 4.3. I unable to do snapshot, migrating VMs from one host to >> another >> takes a long time. I had a very bad experience with "Balloon driver", >> I am >> traumatize using KVM. > >> XenServer don't need to install cloudstack agent is already >> integrated. I >> am very happy with XenServer. I still need to work out a few >> lingering >> issues but thus far am a happy person. > >> Thanks, >> -Motty > >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Andrei Mikhailovsky >> <and...@arhont.com> >> wrote: > >> > I wold love to see the ability to do proper snapshotting on KVM. >> > XenServer >> > does it so much better! >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > >> > > From: "Vladimir Melnik" <v.mel...@uplink.ua> >> > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> > > Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 8:09:17 PM >> > > Subject: RE: XenServer >> > >> > > Oh, thank you so much, folks, for your replies on this topic! Now >> > > I >> > > understand that I shouldn't migrate to XenServer, as I already >> > > have >> > > a bunch of hosts running KVM and it really won't be a good idea >> > > to >> > > bread such a zoo. >> > >> > > The only thing that makes me feel envy is an ability to change >> > > configuration of a virtual machine without restarting it. As I >> > > know, >> > > KVM doesn't support it yet, am I right? Other XenServer features >> > > don't seem to be so exciting to me :) >> > >> > > One more time - thanks to all who have helped me to decide not to >> > > do >> > > something that I would regret. >> > >> > > Best regards, >> > > V. >> > > >> -- >> Thanks for your support, > > Motty
