Nux, I would say XenServer is the best supported hypervisor with KVM rapidly catching up. This is mainly because I've known quite a few XS production deployments.
You'll find a lot of community members are on KVM and since it's been open to apache, there's been a lot of contribution in KVM in terms of bringing it up to date with the latest Ubuntu release etc and software features. I think if you're looking for the latest advances in technology, KVM is probably even earlier than XS. I don't think you'll go wrong with either hypervisor. As for SDN in your other thread, I will let Hugo speak to Nicira's readiness. There's also a desire to bring OVS to production level in the near future. --Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:44 AM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: best supported hypervisor > > On 10.01.2013 03:50, Mathias Mullins wrote: > > Nux, > > > > What your use case? Are you trying a pay for hypervisor, or > > OpenSource? What are the top 5 features you are looking for? > > > > That makes a difference in the question. > > > > Matt > > Hello Mathias, > > I prefer open source, kvm+libvirt whenever possible; I have worked with > xen/xenserver before though and I could give it a try once again if it > checks all the boxes. > > At the end of the day I want a solution that is reliable; to be honest > I almost went with Openstack in production, but there're some > show-stoppers for me, like 1:1 NAT which simply does not work for > everyone no matter how excited they get about it. > > So what I'm hoping from cloudstack is: > - able to assign public IPs to VMs > - not trap me in the 4094 vlan limit (hence the need for gre or smth > else) > - ipv6 (i understand this is coming in 4.1) > - decent upgradability, so next `yum update` won't make the wheels fall > off > > Of course, now that I've been reading/watching stuff about Cloudstack I > discovered all sorts of nice stuff that I want, like multiple types of > primary storage etc. > > Any pointers? > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro
