Per Andreas Buer
2007-Feb-28 18:17 UTC
[Xen-users] Any largeish deployments of Xen? References?
Hi. I''ve been using Xen for about two years now and I''m a very happy user. For the last year we''ve been using Xen in production environments and it''s been performing well. We''ve now started pushing Xen for projects involving 10-20 servers but we are facing a bit of resistance. It reminds me of pushing Linux in Unix environments a few years back. :-) A customer of ours is quite skeptical and he wonders if there are any other users out there with large installations of Xen? If someone could send me an email and be willing to say to this guy "Yes, we''re using Xen in an Enterprise enviroment and its been performing good" I would be eternally grateful. TIA Per. -- Per Andreas Buer / Linpro AS t: 21 54 41 21 / m: 958 39 117 http://linpro.no/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Kraska, Joe A \(US SSA\)
2007-Feb-28 19:26 UTC
RE: [Xen-users] Any largeish deployments of Xen? References?
> customer of ours is quite skeptical and he wonders if there are any > other users out there with large installations of Xen?Oracle Austin Data Center. Although you''ll have to contact them directly to get the verification goodness that you are looking for.... BTW, your customers are right to be cautious about "data center readiness" of Xen in immediate time frames. The software is still a baking cake, and the community is still becoming a community. Joe. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Per Andreas Buer
2007-Feb-28 19:31 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Any largeish deployments of Xen? References?
Hi Joe, Kraska, Joe A (US SSA) wrote:> BTW, your customers are right to be cautious about "data center > readiness" of Xen in immediate time frames. The software is still a baking cake, > and the community is still becoming a community. >Could you elaborate on that? Would this be due to * lack of stability? * lack of tools? * lack of commercial support? * lack of application support? -- Per Andreas Buer / Linpro AS t: 21 54 41 21 / m: 958 39 117 http://linpro.no/ - Ledende på Linux og åpen kildekode. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Jan Albrecht
2007-Mar-01 05:17 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Any largeish deployments of Xen? References?
Kraska, Joe A (US SSA) wrote:> BTW, your customers are right to be cautious about "data center > readiness" > of Xen in immediate time frames. The software is still a baking cakeAgreed. XEN isn''t ready for stable production. If you''ve to care about high availiability or guaranteed uptimes XEN shouldn''t be you tool. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Nicholas Lee
2007-Mar-10 22:35 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Any largeish deployments of Xen? References?
On 3/1/07, Jan Albrecht <jan.albrecht@gmail.com> wrote:> > Agreed. XEN isn''t ready for stable production. If you''ve to care about > high availiability or guaranteed uptimes XEN shouldn''t be you tool.Statements like this aren''t particularly productive. I''ve been running PV Xen in production for almost 2 years with no problems for a small set of high load systems. Xen itself is probably not easily manageable for a large install. Something like Virtual Iron which is Xen-based and has a very nice look node PXE boot management system with HVM live migration might be better right now. But Xen certainly works well enough for PV based linux server production work. If fact there was just some messages on the devel list with some guy talking about 5 9s with Xen. Nicholas _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users