hossein zabolzadeh wrote:
>I want to fully virtualize my datacenter. I don't want cloud. I don't want to 
>deliver
>public cloud. I have several legacy appliacation that I want to run all of 
>them on
>virtualized environment. I want to leverage the virtualization technology to 
>improve
>my datacenter consolidation, ease of meintenace, ease of management with
>increase in capacity.


If you don’t want cloud and don’t need cloud then don’t look at CloudStack or 
OpenStack. There’s no need to be buzzword compliant. Just use ESXi (with or 
without vCenter), or use KVM or Xen directly. After you’ve virtualized your 
infrastructure either one of two things will happen:

1) You’ll realize that you really did want cloud, but now you’ll understand why 
and you won’t just be doing it for buzzword’s sake

or

2) You’ll be perfectly happy because you were actually right that all you 
wanted was to virtualize a few servers. You’re done and you didn’t make 
yourself miserable by implementing something you really didn’t want or need

Not everybody needs a cloud platform. Certainly not everybody needs to build 
their own cloud platform internal to their company. If you’re IT needs are big 
enough and rapidly changing enough to actually need cloud then you wouldn’t be 
posting to an OpenStack mailing list that “I don’t want cloud” unless of course 
you don’t actually know your IT needs well enough. And if you don’t know your 
IT needs well enough to understand on a technical basis why you need OpenStack 
(or CloudStack or vCloud or etc) then you need to go back and figure out your 
own IT needs before proceeding further.
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