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open source private cloud?

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I am wanting to build a small "cloud" implementation here at my office to give some of the developers the ability to create their own VMs from templates (and give other developers the ability to build those templates)...

Pretty similar to what VMware lab manager does (or used to do)... however i have NO budget and only the existing hardware in place right now (more on that in a minute)...

Has anyone built something like this before using all open source software? i've looked at OpenStack a little but am thinking it might be a lot harder than it needs to be for something like this... that said, i do need things like network virtualization and such as the templates created will all likely come from the same source and therefore have same MACs/hostnames/etc...

It would be even better if i could provide a VM upload capability as most developers have vmware workstation on their laptops and would like to push VMs to our cloud for shared work when necessary (i.e. integration testing).

Any thoughts would be appreciated... the hardware i have is:

DELL R900
DELL R815 (2x)
DELL NX3200 NAS (x2, each with 4TB)
DELL R215
DELL PowerConnect 6248

I am a VCP so could set this up quickly if i had the budget for vmware, but i don't in this case so am trying to provide similar functionality via open source channels.
 
If you want one of the big names for a vm host, Xenserver from Citrix is very feature rich in its free version.
 
Yea I prefer XenCloud Platform + Cloudstack.

You get most of the features that come w/ Citrix Xenserver Enterprise. Cloudstack adds HA Capability.
 
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