Hi Sean, thanks for your valuable inputs. i'll try it in testing environment first for atleast 6 months.
Mahesh On 22 Mar 2016 10:32 am, "Sean McNamara" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Mahesh Patade <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > We are planning to have LXD as our virtualization layer for production > > systems. Currently we are using Xenserver 6. > > > > I want to know pros and cons. > > LXD 2.0 will probably be "mostly production ready", but I wouldn't be > surprised if you see a few quick point releases with important fixes > in the first month or two after it's released. > > If I were doing this for a commercial purpose (for business), I would > implement a plan like this: > > 1. Set up some test hardware to run LXD on. > 2. When Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is released, install LXD and evaluate. > 3. Work out any issues you have. Seek commercial support from > Canonical if the open source venue doesn't resolve your issues. > 4. Perform extensive testing. If you don't find any issues, then after > 3 or 4 months you might consider making this your production > environment. > > If you're doing anything safety critical, mission critical or life > critical, I would extend that 3 to 4 months time frame to at least a > year, though your organization probably should already have a policy > around very formalized testing for that kind of industry. > > I wouldn't recommend using LXD 2.0 in a commercial / mission-critical > production environment outside of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, because it has > several important integration points into the distro (kernel version, > libraries, kernel patches, etc.) -- you'd have to do very extensive > testing to certify it on another distro. Canonical's doing most of > that work for you on Ubuntu, though. > > If you're really risk averse, give it at least another year... > > > Sean > > > > > thanks, > > Mahesh > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lxc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
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