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Anyone using OpenStack?

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Hi.

I'm just wondering if anyone is using OpenStack for a private cloud type of thing? What does your setup look like? What hardware are you using? How have you setup OpenStack? What hypervisor(s) are you using?

I'm thinking of setting up something similar.
 
Consider looking into Proxmox VE. Super easy to install and comes with a good web-based admin. I've used it and it's simple and nifty.
 
Pretty sure that this is somewhat of a watershed moment for openstack, either it will become big, or it will fizzle. Right now it seems to be this obscure thing and sure, IBM bought into it, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't just fizzle anyway.

I guess I just don't see how people who depend on a private cloud would deploy openstack over something that has global vendor support, tons of 3rd party admin tools, etc. etc.

Having said that, I am off to buy some Rackspace shares before they get bought by IBM.
 
alphadog said:
Consider looking into Proxmox VE. Super easy to install and comes with a good web-based admin. I've used it and it's simple and nifty.
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I'll give it a go. :) Thanks!

Thuleman said:
Pretty sure that this is somewhat of a watershed moment for openstack, either it will become big, or it will fizzle. Right now it seems to be this obscure thing and sure, IBM bought into it, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't just fizzle anyway.

I guess I just don't see how people who depend on a private cloud would deploy openstack over something that has global vendor support, tons of 3rd party admin tools, etc. etc.

Having said that, I am off to buy some Rackspace shares before they get bought by IBM.
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What alternative would you suggest (other than the already mentioned Proxmox VE)? The solution being "free" (like how ESXi is "free") is a must for me. Web GUI is also a big plus.
 
There is a lot of interest and some very big deployments of OpenStack out there. I would agree that we are just at the cusp of seeing whether it will go for the long haul, but there is a lot of money being changed hands right now in regards to OpenStack. OpenStack 'engineers' or people who know wtf is going on with OpenStack are in very high demand right now.

That being said this looks like a way to get your feet wet and understand some of it.
http://fuel.mirantis.com/fuel-overview/
 
Proxmox VE is certainly an interesting manager for virtualization. It can manage multiple systems and treat them as an HA pool. It is actually fabulous for its intended purpose. I use it in my home lab and am mostly satisfied. The points of dis-satisfaction have to do with their "voting/quorum" model for managing the inter-system configuration database and that their principle developers are arrogant pricks when answering questions on their web forum.

OTOH, Proxmox VE is not competing in the same space as OpenStack. OpenStack is looking at the management of the entire "cloud" complex, including storage, networking and compute resources. It includes a full Openflow manager and support for managing SDN network devices, whether they are vSwitches or open hardware platforms.

They are not the same beast. If you want to manage simple virtualization then Proxmox VE is a good vehicle - a good alternative to ESXi/vSphere. But if you want to look at full cloud configurations you need to look at things like OpenStack.
 
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I am still sticking with CloudStack. More difficult to set up and get going then say Proxmox, but it does a lot more too. Way easier than OpenStack (StackOps). For me its that middle ground. Only gripe is I wish HA was not dependent on the underlying hypervisor.
 
"their principle developers are arrogant pricks when answering questions on their web forum"

+1000
 
Any other ideas?

By the way, is it possible to manage many ESXi/XenServer host from one place with a free license?
 
Maybe a bit off topic, but why does it have to be free? It seems to me that if there is an entity who actually needs a private cloud then the comparatively small cost of software licensing shouldn't matter much? Just trying to understand the requirement to potentially offer other solutions.
 
OwnCloud is a Dropbox replacement, not a IaaS private cloud software.
 
Thuleman said:
Having said that, I am off to buy some Rackspace shares before they get bought by IBM.
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Just to follow up on this, I did actually go ahead and do that, 100 shares at 35.25.
If you look into it then you see what looks like a couple institutional investors selling large chunks of RAX in February and then again in May. I am hoping that RAX is becoming cheap enough for IBM to just buy the whole damn thing and be done with it.

Will dig this post up in 365 days to update on the share price then. Not exactly virtualization related but hey, if you want to take investment advice from some random guy on the Internet, then you may as well buy in! ;)
 
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