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I've been told by my Rackspace rep that they're working towards moving away from VMWare and onto something else (based on their Open Stack system). Supposedly

by Erwin 15y ago

I've been told by my Rackspace rep that they're working towards moving away from VMWare and onto something else (based on their Open Stack system). Supposedly (and take that with a grain of salt since this information is a few layers removed) the current VMWare based cloud they have is limiting how flexible they can be about their offering, i.e. every instance price level just doubles everything and all but the 32G instance has 4 virtual cores. Once they move to the new system supposedly you'll be able to mix & match things more. Maybe their current cloud really requires homogenous hardware, I don't know. As for modern cores: Rackspace is somewhat conservative about what hardware they offer, though you can get special order. My desktop i7 2600K has single-thread performance that's essentially twice of the quad-core quad-CPU Xeon in the "real" server. A place like Hetzner -- http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... -- offers a € 49 server using that. As for AWS, isn't the way to "fix" that to use essentially striped EBS volumes?

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jarito 15y ago
That's not quite right. Rackspace currently uses the Xen Hypervisor for public Cloud, not VMWare. The new Cloud Servers (Nova) is based on the open source OpenStack Compute (http://openstack.org/projects/compute/ http://openstack.org/projects/compute/) code base. The new Cloud Servers is in public beta right now for people to try out (http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-cloud-servers-powered-by-openstack-beta/ http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-cloud-servers-powere...). The new Cloud Servers will have much greater flexibility and a better feature set. It will help solve many issues that customers have with the current offerings. That information will be coming out over the next couple of months, but since we are only about two-weeks different from the OpenStack nova code base, you can always look there for a preview. Rackspace does offer a VMWare based private cloud (http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/private_cloud/ http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/private_cloud/) for customers who want virtualization, but on their own dedicated hardware. VMWare is not used for public cloud (as far as I know). Obvious Disclosure: I work at Rackspace and this is to the best of my knowledge.

by Erwin 15y ago

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jarito 15y ago

That's not quite right. Rackspace currently uses the Xen Hypervisor for public Cloud, not VMWare. The new Cloud Servers (Nova) is based on the open source OpenStack Compute (http://openstack.org/projects/compute/ http://openstack.org/projects/compute/) code base. The new Cloud Servers is in public beta right now for people to try out (http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-cloud-servers-powered-by-openstack-beta/ http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-cloud-servers-powere...). The new Cloud Servers will have much greater flexibility and a better feature set. It will help solve many issues that customers have with the current offerings. That information will be coming out over the next couple of months, but since we are only about two-weeks different from the OpenStack nova code base, you can always look there for a preview. Rackspace does offer a VMWare based private cloud (http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/private_cloud/ http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/private_cloud/) for customers who want virtualization, but on their own dedicated hardware. VMWare is not used for public cloud (as far as I know). Obvious Disclosure: I work at Rackspace and this is to the best of my knowledge.