Gabriel, In regards to operation issues and SLA(s), there are several initiatives that come to mind:
1) Rewrite and enhance CloudStack HA (being worked on) - the specs are posted on Confluence, targeting KVM primarily, as Xen and VmWare have this problem solved 2) Distributed Resource Scheduler (work begins in 2 months) - similar to VmWare DRS, except its less sophisticated and plug-gable. It will move the VMs within your cluster to host with least usage, it can be extended to shutdown idle hosts and bring them up - when needed, reference feature #3 below 3) IPMI Support (completed) - ability to issue power level commands through hosts IPMI interface (ILO,DRAC, etc...) 4) Usage Metrics View - enhancement to UI to show current usage and hot spots in your env. On 4/11/16 8:44 AM, Gabriel Beims Bräscher wrote: > Dear Apache CloudStack users, > > I have been discussing with some colleagues about solutions that can help > us to manage our Apache CloudStack (ACS) environments. By management I > mean, dealing with service level agreements (SLAs), management of idle > hosts, the balancing of the environment's virtual machine loads, and the > monitoring and tracking of resource usage (not only allocation). > > Have you guys dealt with those situations and any other that you would > consider as a day-to-day management situation? How did you work them out? > > It would be helpful to hear back your thoughts. > > Thanks for your time, > Gabriel. >