Greetings all:
I''m officially releasing the first beta of my Xen Cloud Control
System package! This is a web server based control and operations system
for Xen Cloud Platform that will work with any device with a browser (I
run my cloud from my BlackBerry :) ).
The package can be downloaded from
http://www.swiftwatertel.com/PACKAGES/xcc-0.1-040610.tar.gz . This is an
early beta so it''s not polished, but it is functional (it''s in
daily use
on my cloud here). In the next couple of days I''ll also have a site up
for it at www.xencloudcontrol.com .
Next on the release bandwagon will be the VM watchdog, the cloud
host watchdog, and then the cloud load balancer.
Vern
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Grant McWilliams
2010-Apr-07 11:19 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Vern Burke <vburke@skow.net> wrote:> Greetings all: > I''m officially releasing the first beta of my Xen Cloud Control System > package! This is a web server based control and operations system for Xen > Cloud Platform that will work with any device with a browser (I run my cloud > from my BlackBerry :) ). > The package can be downloaded from > http://www.swiftwatertel.com/PACKAGES/xcc-0.1-040610.tar.gz . This is an > early beta so it''s not polished, but it is functional (it''s in daily use on > my cloud here). In the next couple of days I''ll also have a site up for it > at www.xencloudcontrol.com . > Next on the release bandwagon will be the VM watchdog, the cloud host > watchdog, and then the cloud load balancer. > > Vern > >How does this differ from OpenXenCenter? I was hoping that we could avoid with XCP what we''ve done with Xen in that we have a million different gui interfaces to Xen and none of them are really THAT good. If we pool our resources we could have one or two really great fully featured guis for XCP. Grant McWilliams _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Vern Burke
2010-Apr-07 12:25 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
On 4/7/2010 7:19 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote:> > How does this differ from OpenXenCenter? I was hoping that we could > avoid with XCP what we''ve done with Xen in that we have a million > different gui interfaces to Xen and none of them are really THAT good. > If we pool our resources we could have one or two really great fully > featured guis for XCP. > > > Grant McWilliamsIt differs from OpenXenCenter by being lightweight (no client app required, will run from any machine with even a basic browser without installing extra software, including smartphones), includes extended functionality (virtual machine watchdog, cloud host watchdog, working load balancer), and combines multiple steps in single actions (automatically stops and restarts the virtual machine when changing memory, etc). The other thing is that you never have to expose the XCP cloud password itself to the user. I wrote this because I don''t have a large staff and being mobile is critical for me. This means that I have to be able to do most if not all of my admin work from my BlackBerry smartphone. That''s the beauty of open source, different focus brings different results. Whatever anyone feels about it, I won''t apologize for writing it because someone has written something similar. Vern _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Grant McWilliams
2010-Apr-07 12:53 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Vern Burke <vburke@skow.net> wrote:> On 4/7/2010 7:19 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote: > >> >> How does this differ from OpenXenCenter? I was hoping that we could avoid >> with XCP what we''ve done with Xen in that we have a million different gui >> interfaces to Xen and none of them are really THAT good. If we pool our >> resources we could have one or two really great fully featured guis for XCP. >> >> >> Grant McWilliams >> > It differs from OpenXenCenter by being lightweight (no client app required, > will run from any machine with even a basic browser without installing extra > software, including smartphones), includes extended functionality (virtual > machine watchdog, cloud host watchdog, working load balancer), and combines > multiple steps in single actions (automatically stops and restarts the > virtual machine when changing memory, etc). The other thing is that you > never have to expose the XCP cloud password itself to the user. > > I wrote this because I don''t have a large staff and being mobile is > critical for me. This means that I have to be able to do most if not all of > my admin work from my BlackBerry smartphone. That''s the beauty of open > source, different focus brings different results. > > Whatever anyone feels about it, I won''t apologize for writing it because > someone has written something similar. > > Vern > >Vern, Not expecting an apology! We all have different needs but I think we''re all afflicted with the curse of wanting to invent our own wheel as well. With your software can I have a user only manage specific VMs that he''s been assigned to or is everyone THE admin? Grant McWilliams _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Vern Burke
2010-Apr-07 13:12 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
On 4/7/2010 8:53 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote:> Vern, > Not expecting an apology! We all have different needs but I think > we''re all afflicted with the curse of wanting to invent our own wheel > as well. > > With your software can I have a user only manage specific VMs that > he''s been assigned to or is everyone THE admin? > > Grant McWilliams >Grant: Multi-tenant control and self provisioning is on the todo list, I''ve just been concentrating on getting the disaster recovery (VM and cloud host watchdogs) and the load balancer up to par first. My intent is to make the cloud as bulletproof as possible first because it has more of a potential to be an operations nightmare than provisioning does. Vern _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Outback Dingo
2010-Apr-07 13:39 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
is this url right ? http://www.xencloudcontrol.com/ im getting what looks like a domain squatter page, generic On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Vern Burke <vburke@skow.net> wrote:> On 4/7/2010 7:19 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote: > >> >> How does this differ from OpenXenCenter? I was hoping that we could avoid >> with XCP what we''ve done with Xen in that we have a million different gui >> interfaces to Xen and none of them are really THAT good. If we pool our >> resources we could have one or two really great fully featured guis for XCP. >> >> >> Grant McWilliams >> > It differs from OpenXenCenter by being lightweight (no client app required, > will run from any machine with even a basic browser without installing extra > software, including smartphones), includes extended functionality (virtual > machine watchdog, cloud host watchdog, working load balancer), and combines > multiple steps in single actions (automatically stops and restarts the > virtual machine when changing memory, etc). The other thing is that you > never have to expose the XCP cloud password itself to the user. > > I wrote this because I don''t have a large staff and being mobile is > critical for me. This means that I have to be able to do most if not all of > my admin work from my BlackBerry smartphone. That''s the beauty of open > source, different focus brings different results. > > Whatever anyone feels about it, I won''t apologize for writing it because > someone has written something similar. > > > Vern > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Rudi Ahlers
2010-Apr-07 14:18 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Vern Burke <vburke@skow.net> wrote:> Greetings all: > I''m officially releasing the first beta of my Xen Cloud Control System > package! This is a web server based control and operations system for Xen > Cloud Platform that will work with any device with a browser (I run my cloud > from my BlackBerry :) ). > The package can be downloaded from > http://www.swiftwatertel.com/PACKAGES/xcc-0.1-040610.tar.gz . This is an > early beta so it''s not polished, but it is functional (it''s in daily use on > my cloud here). In the next couple of days I''ll also have a site up for it > at www.xencloudcontrol.com . > Next on the release bandwagon will be the VM watchdog, the cloud host > watchdog, and then the cloud load balancer. > > Vern > > > _______________________________________________Wow, this looks very promising. I would like to see more. Are you developing this on your own? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Vern Burke
2010-Apr-07 15:11 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
On 4/7/2010 10:18 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:> > Wow, this looks very promising. I would like to see more. Are you > developing this on your own? > >I have been, since this started as an in-house need (I run our own public cloud service with it). I thought it was finally functional (and presentable) enough to to toss out there and see what everyone else makes of it :). Vern _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Niels Dettenbach
2010-Apr-08 08:37 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 14:25:34 Vern Burke wrote:> I wrote this because I don''t have a large staff and being mobile is > critical for me. This means that I have to be able to do most if not all > of my admin work from my BlackBerry smartphone. That''s the beauty of > open source, different focus brings different results.Yes, mobility is important for us too - except we (mainly) work with Symbian mobiles (in the current) with SSH (PuTTY s60, s80 etc.) and/or web (i.e. Opera s60). This means a typical "suitable" solution which provides "platform independent remote management" offers console based operation (CLI) or - if "necessary" - a clean and plain web GUI without "oversized" stuff like Java, Flash and ideally works without Javascript too (even if most mobile browsers provides JS). Just my two cents... cheers, Niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach --- Syndicat IT&Internet http://www.syndicat.com T.-Muentzer.-Str. 2, 37308 Heilbad Heiligenstadt - DE --- Kryptoinfo: PGP public key ID 651CA20D Fingerprint: 55E0 4DCD B04C 4A49 1586 88AE 54DC 4465 651C A20D https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc --- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users