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Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?

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On 21/05/15 11:27, Marc Haber wrote:
> Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> wrote:
>> If we went cloud, the terminology seems to be "virtual datacentre" or
>> "virtual infrastructure".
>>
>> Had a very informed chat with one of the smaller London based providers
>> and they use VMWare vCloud to allow multi-tenancy (another buzzword) on
>> a large physical cluster.
>>
>> It seems that each "tenant" gets what they perceive to be a personal
>> VMWare virtual cluster and they can treat it as they like and manage it
>> more or less as a real VMWare cluster, minus the hardware aggravations.
>>
>> Firewalling is achieved at the hypervisor level using vShield Edge to
>> give a customer managed border firewall.
>>
>> It's still sodding expensive, but at least it defines what I want (at
>> least in functionality) from a cloud provider.
>
> If you define all those properties as "must have", you'll rule out all
> of the cheaper virtualization techniques and you'll end up with the
> "soddingly expensive" VMware-based offers only.

^^^ That's an example discussion, it's not an absolute specification... 
But it is a good specification of features (if any other product or set 
of products can achieve similar).

Obviously I don't care how the SAN works as long as it's fast enough - 
but vSAN does look cute as an aside...


  I have probably proved we should DIY as we do now...


Essentially, we MUST have:

VM Console access
Reliable VMs (ie no random shutdowns because the host feels like it)
Firewall
A certain amount of resource (about 220vCPU, 390GB RAM, >7000IOPS)
Straight forward management of the above.
Hot migration for host and datastore (volume)
Some backup/DR solution that works with the above.


Nice to have - resource control/limiting on a VM basis.


These are things I'm not prepare to compromise on -
How's Xen with respect to those (specifically hot migration and console 
access to both Windows and Linux VMs)? It's been a long time and my 
experience with Xen has not been happy previously.


(we'll allow the firewall to be external as VMWare's vShield is a bit 
special but it's not the only way to get a border firewall).



Cheers

Tim

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    Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-05-21 12:27 +0200
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