Hi Dingo, That's an interesting answer to recent citrix licensing change for xenserver, I'll definitely keep an eye on this project!
thanks! *Pierre-Luc DION* Architecte de Solution Cloud | Cloud Solutions Architect t 855.652.5683 *CloudOps* Votre partenaire infonuagique* | *Cloud Solutions Experts 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_ On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > Good luck, Sean. It should be doable. > If you're buying new Intel hardware, make sure it supports the invpcid cpu > flag, or buy AMD Epyc. > See my other recent email on the list about performance implications of > Meltdown. > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Sean Lair" <sl...@ippathways.com> > > To: "users" <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > > Sent: Sunday, 7 January, 2018 18:20:11 > > Subject: RE: XenServer Licensing Change - Switch Hypervisors? > > > Thanks for the reply Nux, yea we originally chose XenServer over KVM > because KVM > > didn't support all of the VM snapshot functionality of XenServer. > > > > We are evaluating switching to KVM now... But don't have a good way of > moving > > customers over from XenServer host to KVM hosts... > > > > We are on XenServer 6.5 and with the new Spectre and Meltdown > vulnerabilities > > not being patched in 6.5... We may accelerate the move to KVM. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro] > > Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 4:22 PM > > To: users <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > > Subject: Re: XenServer Licensing Change - Switch Hypervisors? > > > > If you have expertise with XenServer and don't mind paying, then it's > not a bad > > direction to follow. It's a nice HV. > > On the long term I think KVM will be a much better solution though. > > > > -- > > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > > > Nux! > > www.nux.ro > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Sean Lair" <sl...@ippathways.com> > >> To: "users" <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > >> Sent: Wednesday, 3 January, 2018 00:53:32 > >> Subject: XenServer Licensing Change - Switch Hypervisors? > > > >> It looks like XenServer 7.3 will no longer have the following features > >> in the Free Edition. Is anyone considering moving from Free to > >> Standard Edition or possibly to another hyper-visor (like KVM) for their > >> CloudStack environment? > >> > >> Thoughts? We are looking more at KVM at this point, any feature gaps > >> we should be aware of? > >> > >> Free Edition Changes > >> > >> - Limited to up to 3 hosts per clusters > >> > >> - No Pool High-Availability > >> > >> - No Dynamic Memory Control (DMC) > >> > >> https://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/product-over > >> view/citrix-xenserver-feature-matrix.pdf > >> > >> Thanks > > > Sean >
