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Almost definitely KVM. The Ubuntu/KVM/OpenStack combo is the bread-and-butter deployment scenario outside of a small number of folks (notably Rackspace, which i
by tsmith 14y ago
Almost definitely KVM. The Ubuntu/KVM/OpenStack combo is the bread-and-butter deployment scenario outside of a small number of folks (notably Rackspace, which is OpenStack on XenServer^TM).
Also, <= Diablo and to a large extent Essex releases were known to be (politely speaking) less-than-usable OOTB. Folsom was really the first release that could properly be called usable for a production IaaS, and Grizzly is even better.
Source: knowing these things is my job.
- 3am 14y agoMany thanks for the info. I had a hell of a time trying^H^H^H^H^H^Hfailing to get Diablo working with XenServer, too. No ill will towards the project, and glad to hear it's maturing. It seemed to be in relatively good hands with Rackspace.
- hkolk 14y agoHmm, eBay has worked extensively with rackspace for cloud-platforming though, so I think it's mostly Xen: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/case-study/an-openstack-case-study-enabling-the-xcommerce-cloud http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/case-study/an-open... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/03/0219230/ebay-deploys-100tb-of-ssds-cuts-rackspace-by-half http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/03/0219230/ebay-dep...