I was under the impression hyper-v didn't charge a per seat license on non windows instances?
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Fox, Kevin M <[email protected]> wrote: > So, in the pets vs cattle cloud philosophy, you want to be able to have > as many cattle as you need, rather then limit the sets to a smaller number > of more pet like things. > > kvm allows unlimited numbers of vm's, which is very cloudy. but due to > Windows licensing, tends to only work well with linux/bsd VM's. > > Windows is a whole nother kettle of fish. They either license it per vm, > which is very pet like, or alternately, the more cattle friendly way is to > buy a DataCenter* version of windows. > > Each hypervisor needs to be the DataCenter version, but it allows you to > run unlimited Windows VM's on that hypervisor. So if you want to run lots > of windows cattle, its can be the way to go. > > Due to its high cost, it does not usually make sense to run all your linux > vm's on Windows DataCenter version, so you run both kvm for linux/bsd vm's > and Windows DataCenter licensed hyperv for windows vm's. > > * http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/virtualization.aspx > > Thanks, > Kevin > ------------------------------ > *From:* Maish Saidel-Keesing [[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2015 12:19 AM > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] Hypervisor decision > > That is interesting Tim. > > Why Hyper-V if I may ask? Why not stick just with KVM? > > Maish > > On 19/03/15 08:22, Tim Bell wrote: > > At CERN, we run KVM and Hyper-V. Both work fine. > > > > Depending on the size of your cluster, you may have other factors to > consider such as monitoring and configuration management. We use Puppet to > configure both environnments. > > > > Images are tagged with a property hypervisor_type which is used to > schedule workloads to the appropriate hypervisor. > > > > Tim > > > > *From:* matt [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > *Sent:* 18 March 2015 23:24 > *To:* Abel Lopez > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] Hypervisor decision > > > > most openstack environments at kvm, so if you want to stick with the herd, > that's the way to go. > > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Abel Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting topic, since you're already running Hyper-v and ESX, I'm > inferring that your workload is heavy on windows VMs. > If you're doing majority windows, and minority linux, stick with hyper-v. > The benchmarks I've read show that windows VMs run fastest on hyper-v VS > all others. > If you expect an even split, it might make sense to create Host Aggregates > of various hypervisiors like hyper-v and KVM, and utilize extra-specs in > the flavors and guest images to aid in scheduling, for example "Windows > images launch on the hyper-v pool" > > > > On Mar 18, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Vytenis Silgalis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking to champion openstack at my company, we currently run both a > small hyper-v cluster and 3 VMware clusters. However we are not married > to any specific hypervisor. What I'm looking for is recommendations for > which hypervisor we should look at for our openstack environments and the > pros/con's people have run into with the various hypervisors supported by > openstack. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Vytenis > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-operators mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing > [email protected]http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > > -- > Best Regards, Maish Saidel-Keesing > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > >
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