The lastest info I''ve seen is that Early Access 3 is given to some 200 people who where interessted in xVM Server. I''ve tried myself to get a hold on EA3 but info around xVM Server have been non-existing the last few months. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Am 04.08.2009 14:45, schrieb tore:> The lastest info I''ve seen is that Early Access 3 is given to some 200 people who where interessted in xVM Server. I''ve tried myself to get a hold on EA3 but info around xVM Server have been non-existing the last few months.according to my information is the standalone xVM-Server dead, due to the huge problems of implementing things like livemigration from a single server scope, which where under heavy interest of the EA users. Last plans set xVM-Server to a feature of suns ops center, where the needed global scope for the requested features is given. Florian
To bad, im missing something like esxi, just based on xen. But if that project is dead, i dont know of any good alternatives. I suppose Ops Center wont be free, not even for a single server installation? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Am 04.08.2009 15:55, schrieb tore:> To bad, im missing something like esxi, just based on xen. But if that project is dead, i dont know of any good alternatives. > > I suppose Ops Center wont be free, not even for a single server installation?Single Server is not possible due to the concept of opscenter. Will there be a free variant? this decision where on road map when oracle deal started, so any official statement will be delayed until the deal is done. Florian
Yeah I understand. I do understand that ops center wont "work" on a single server, if you want to use live migration, load balancing and such. From a corporate view, their decision is the best. But I would really like sun xvm server, there is nothing that I´ve found that seems to compare to maintain xen guests. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
> > To bad, im missing something like esxi, just based > on xen. But if that project is dead, i dont know of > any good alternatives.Have you looked at Citrix XenServer? http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
I found it yesterday actually, and it kick as :) Sadly no ZFS support, but if I want a simple admin tool ala xencenter, it seems I have to settle for Citrix Xenserver. But, in all fairness, it does look very promising. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:29 AM, tore wrote:> I found it yesterday actually, and it kick as :) Sadly no ZFS > support, but if I want a simple admin tool ala xencenter, it seems I > have to settle for Citrix Xenserver. But, in all fairness, it does > look very promising.What about using ZFS iscsi targets for your storage backend in Xenserver? Blake
You mean running a OS supporting ZFS as a VM on Citrix Xenserver, then assign the data drives directly to the ZFS operating system, and create a pool there which i share via iSCSI? And then add this iSCSI target in Xenserver? I think it would work, but would I do not know at current time if it is possible to give VMs direct access to drives i Xenserver. Do you have any info regarding this? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:11 PM, tore<no-reply@opensolaris.org> wrote:> You mean running a OS supporting ZFS as a VM on Citrix Xenserver, then assign the data drives directly to the ZFS operating system, and create a pool there which i share via iSCSI? And then add this iSCSI target in Xenserver? >He may have possibly meant that you have one Solaris box with ZFS file systems exposed as iSCSI, which would then be used by either Xenserver to store guests on, as well as make the iSCSI volumes (not the same) availalble for the guest operating systems to make use of. As per this FAQ, they do support remote iSCSI (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX115807)> I think it would work, but would I do not know at current time if it is possible to give VMs direct access to drives i Xenserver. > > Do you have any info regarding this? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org >
It seems it is supported: http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Adding_Disk%2C_CDROM_and_DVD_Devices_to_a_Running_Xen_domainU_Guest_System Well, it is possible, but not supported official by Citrix AFAIK. But this may actually work. But then I dont want to use opensolaris, if I would use it i would need to at least remove ALOT of packages. I want a clean CLI only opensolaris, that would be the best. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:57 PM, tore wrote:> It seems it is supported: http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Adding_Disk%2C_CDROM_and_DVD_Devices_to_a_Running_Xen_domainU_Guest_System > > Well, it is possible, but not supported official by Citrix AFAIK. > > But this may actually work. But then I dont want to use opensolaris, > if I would use it i would need to at least remove ALOT of packages. > I want a clean CLI only opensolaris, that would be the best.It''s fairly easy to install stock OpenSolaris and then remove packages with the ''pkg'' tool afterwards to get more space. If you just want to disable the gui, edit grub''s menu.list file to allow verbose console boot, then diable GDM with ''svcadm disable gdm''. Blake
Yeah, it is. But I´ve found out it will be a fairly dirty setup to create a VM to give pass through disk access, and then host thoose disks via nfs or iscsi. I havent checked, but i do think there will be some overhead. And since it is not supported by Citrix, ive decided to just go stock linux software raid. Maybe next server :) Thanks alot for the feedback anyhow -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list xen-discuss@opensolaris.org