Xen users - Apr 2010 - Moving away from XenServer - need some advise on networking please

Hi,

I currently have 4 physical machines served off a SAN configured in
XenServer.

I am considering moving as XenServer is just a little bit too restrictive -
love Xen, just not XenServer.

Each host has 4 1GB NICs - two which are bonded to the external network, and
2 which are bonded
to the SAN. I also have a single VM which runs vyatta which serves as the
firewall and gateway.

This cluster actually runs 6 different VLANs (i.e. a testing environment, a
production environment etc.) and these VLANs are spread out across the
hosts, so nodes on different hosts can communicate with each other.

The VLANs are also interconnected, so I have one
''infrastructure'' VLAN which
all the other VLANs are connected to.

My question is, is this possible using ''plain'' Xen, and how
hard is it? I
don''t mind which version of Xen or which distro.  Preferably a point
and
click would be good (as this is a part-time role and I don''t quite get
all
the internals :)).  A recommendation of a good management tool would be
excellent!

Finally, is there an open-source equivalent of xen-tools for Windows?  Do
Linux distros require a Xen compatible kernel as well?

Many thanks,

Col


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