Task #62
Evaluate virtualization technologies
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Description
Issue
Need to deploy virtual machines at some point in the future for CNs and perhaps MNs. Would be good to utilize a single VM technology, at least for year one - so will need to decide on VMWare vs Xen (others?). ESXi is nice, but management is primarily through a windows client, which is very annoying. Xen is being used by some cloud environments such as Eucalyptus - so that may be beneficial way down the road when adding compute intensive services to the D1 infrastructure.
Task
Scope the field - anything competing with VMWare ESXi and Xen hypervisors? Compare features of each:
- stability
- management tools
- ease of managing / duplicating VMs
- ease of deployment
- hardware requirements
- interesting / novel features
- ability to support 64bit VMs
History
#1 Updated by Roger Dahl over 14 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
Will go with KVM for now.
- The industry seems to be moving away from Xen in favor of KVM. This seems to be happening for both technical and political reasons.
- KVM is built right into the Linux kernel and is included in mainline kernel since 2.6.20.
- KVM is based on QEmu and can emulate CPUs different from the platform that it is running on.
#2 Updated by Dave Vieglais over 14 years ago
Additional notes in repository: source:documents/Projects/VDC/docs/hypervisor_eval
