Re: [Xen-API] Cloudstack or Openstack

[Jane Wayne <jane.wayne2978@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

So, I'm going to get off topic (maybe, arguably, it's still within topic).

Looking at the CloudStack website, they said the software is to manage
a large number of virtual machines (VMs) as a cloud computing
platform. What precisely does it help you manage?

For example, I've been trying to find a technology to help build and
support an elastic cloud computing platform (i.e. a Hadoop, HBase, or
Accumulo cluster) with some significant level of automation involved.
If I use XCP as the underlying virtualization platform, will
CloudStack be able to interface with it to create an elastic,
virtualized cloud computing (Hadoop) cluster for me?

What I've been doing manually is 1) create a VM and 2) configure a VM
for each node I want to add to the cluster. Needless to say, this is
time-consuming and error-prone. Could something like this be achieved
with CloudStack (or OpenStack or OpenNebula)? The other day I read
about another product, Eucalyptus, and I wonder how this fits into the
picture; is this software meant to run on top of Xen, XCP, or both?

I know I see diagrams on the XCP website/pages that says XAPI is
exposed to 3rd party management tools. But it's difficult to say how
these 3rd party tools are manipulating XCP and for what purposes.

Do I need other technologies/software (i.e. Chef or Puppet)? Right
now, there's too many options and too much marketing content I cannot
really discern the products' capabilities.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Andrew Eross <eross@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm just a user of XCP who has played with all of these, so I don't consider
> myself an expert, keep that in mind:
>
> I've attempted to integrate all three of those with XCP at various times,
> basically I found that OpenStack will eventually work and is a very active
> project, but is so actively being developed that the documentation is a bit
> of a mess, every install guide is different, and even just downloading a
> consistent build and getting it going is hard (e.g. follow a HOWTO for 2
> hours and then you get stuck with KeyStone being incompatible with something
> else, and the dashboard doesn't install for god knows what reason, etc,
> etc). Just for me I think it's not a system for those who wish to just run a
> small cloud with a couple servers with little hassle. Right only dive in if
> you're doing it for a fun learning / dev experiment kinda thing.
>
> CloudStack to me was the most stable and mature. The dashboard UI is
> certainly the best. I recently had some trouble integrating it with XCP 1.5
> beta, but I had better luck before with XCP 1.1, and with XenServer it sure
> does work. The install process and how-to guides are by far the most
> accurate and working of the 3. I will say it seems to me that it's intended
> to be used with XenServer, so although it does support XCP just recently, if
> you want to get a no-hassle approach to getting a cloud up and going to play
> with, I'd use XenServer free edition and CloudStack.
>
> Oh also my knowledge of OpenNebula is less.. but in my simple biased
> opinion, when I tried to set it up with XCP (and later I tried vmware) it
> was really difficult to install, basically didn't work, and seems to me
> OpenStack is going to overtake that competition at some point (e.g. for us
> OpenStack is the official cloud tech for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu is our
> chosen Linux, so we lean that way).
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Jane Wayne <jane.wayne2978@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm interested in the answers to these questions too. In particular,
>> I'd like to see some tutorials for integrating CloudStack or OpenStack
>> with XCP. I've read a lot of documentations online that these third
>> party management tools can integrate with XCP, but I haven't really
>> seen any good tutorials or HOWTOs. I'm sure with one very good HOWTO,
>> it will forever bias my thoughts about responding to questions such as
>> these.
>>
>> As a side note, IMHO, one success of technology adoption and choice
>> preference are good tutorials and HOWTOs. When XCP refers me to Citrix
>> XenServer for documentation, I wonder, why don't I just learn
>> XenServer?
>>
>> Lastly, while we're on this subject, could someone also inform us of
>> OpenNebula as well, if it fits into the picture of competitors with
>> CloudStack and OpenStack?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Rick Jones <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Which one gets the job done best?
>> >
>> > Which is quicker to get up and running?
>> >
>> > Which has the brightest future with XCP?
>> >
>> > Any specific pros and cons I should be aware of?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
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