[132115] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Kim)
Mon Nov 15 15:28:48 2010
From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
To: <nderitualex@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:28:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1289851253.7457.3.camel@ltebt089>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thanks guys for keeping this topic alive. =3D)
I'm leaning towards the opensource or at least the Xen side of things. I ha=
ven't yet fully evaluated vCloud Director but I get the gut
feeling that anything "VMware" is going to be costly.=20
Is that a fair assumption?=20
The issue is that I'm looking for an application that is as turnkey as poss=
ible=2C even if it's a little bit more. That "could" be vCloud Director=2C =
I don't know yet....
But I do know that if we have to invest in writing a lot of custom scripts =
to get what we want=2C then we don't have the resources for that....
> Subject: Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing
> From: nderitualex@gmail.com
> To: brandon.kim@brandontek.com
> CC: nanog@nanog.org
> Date: Mon=2C 15 Nov 2010 23:00:52 +0300
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> Brandon=2C=20
> It really depends on the hypervisor in operation. You can take a look at
> vCloud Director (http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/) and
> BMC
> (http://www.bmc.com/products/product-listing/bmc-cloud-lifecycle-manageme=
nt.html)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
> To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: OT: VM slicing and dicing
> Date: Tue=2C 9 Nov 2010 11:17:50 -0500
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> Hey gents:
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> As always I value your input. Best resource on the planet! =3D)
> I'm hoping this isn't too off-topic if so please respond to me offline if=
so.
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> I figured since most of everyone here are operators working in a datacent=
er=2C you may or may
> not have experience with virtualization software that allows you to confi=
gure VM's on the fly.
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> I'm not looking for companies that offer this service=2C but the actual s=
oftware engines that allow you
> to create VM's on the fly. So a customer goes to your website and says I =
want Win2008 with 8gigs of RAM and 120gigs of HDD.
> Just like custom configuring a new PC.
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> Does anyone here have experience or knowledge of companies that offer thi=
s type of software engine?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Brandon
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