Hi all, I'm also trying to find a solution, our infrastructure is based on XS6.5 that will not patched on meltdown and spectre so we're considering to create new cluster based on a different hypervisor instead of upgrade to XS7.2. In fact, I think that all here work for a company that has a MS SPLA agreement in place, so my question is: since we're already paying MS Datacenter license, what do you think about Hyper-V under Cloudstack? I'm trying to compare it versus KVM...
Thank you. On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 3:18 AM, Pierre-Luc Dion <pd...@cloudops.com> wrote: > 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 > > >
