RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-16 Thread Brandon Kim
high density environment to go with 1GIG switches as the minimum? It seems pretty obvious but I'm wondering if it's really a necessity? Can anyone on this list argue that 10/100 will be suffice? Thanks again! Brandon Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:13:51 -0600 Subject: Re: OT: VM slicing

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-16 Thread Holmes,David A
? -Original Message- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:04 AM To: mysi...@gmail.com Cc: nanog group Subject: RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing Thanks for the suggestions James! One of the issues I had, (which is why I turned to NANOG) was that I

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Robert Brockway rob...@timetraveller.org wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: I use Proxmox exclusively and am very happy with it. It's a great product. You might need to do a bit of CLI work if you want to support multiple VLANS or other

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread Raymond Macharia
I know VMWare has something that allows you to do what you are asking (vSphere I believe but I stand to be corrected). Though I am not so sure about the on the fly as any Vm enviroment requires careful planning before starting to add the VMs to your hardware Regards Raymond Macharia On Tue, Nov

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Kamiru
@brandontek.com To: nanog group nanog@nanog.org Subject: OT: VM slicing and dicing Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:17:50 -0500 Hey gents: As always I value your input. Best resource on the planet! =) I'm hoping this isn't too off-topic if so please respond to me offline if so. I figured since most

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread Brandon Kim
: OT: VM slicing and dicing From: nderitua...@gmail.com To: brandon@brandontek.com CC: nanog@nanog.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:00:52 +0300 Brandon, It really depends on the hypervisor in operation. You can take a look at vCloud Director (http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread James Hess
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brandon Kim brandon@brandontek.com wrote: I'm not looking for companies that offer this service, but the actual software engines that allow you to create VM's on the fly. So a customer goes to your website and says I want Win2008 with 8gigs of RAM and

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-12 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 11/9/2010 2:38 PM, Brandon Kim wrote: Thanks everyone for your input today on this topic. I wanted to recap with a list of sites that everyone has suggested both online and offline for FYI purposes. http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/default.aspx I haven't used system center,

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-12 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: I use Proxmox exclusively and am very happy with it. It's a great product. You might need to do a bit of CLI work if you want to support multiple VLANS or other slightly advanced features. I'm lazy but I might get around to patching the web UI at

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-12 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 11/12/2010 12:09 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: I use Proxmox exclusively and am very happy with it. It's a great product. You might need to do a bit of CLI work if you want to support multiple VLANS or other slightly advanced features. I'm lazy but

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-09 Thread Greg Whynott
if you are using KVM (or even VMware) and you can write shell scripts, you can do this in house.both have the ability to create VMs from the command line. in KVM you can create a VM with a one liner. -g On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Hey gents: As always I value

OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-09 Thread Brandon Kim
Hey gents: As always I value your input. Best resource on the planet! =) I'm hoping this isn't too off-topic if so please respond to me offline if so. I figured since most of everyone here are operators working in a datacenter, you may or may not have experience with virtualization software

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-09 Thread chaim rieger
Kvm, opensource and closed Virt-manager will be your open source manager for this Also look into proxmox.

Re: [nanog] OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-09 Thread Aaron Peterson
Hello: On 11/9/10 11:17 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: I figured since most of everyone here are operators working in a datacenter, you may or may not have experience with virtualization software that allows you to configure VM's on the fly. I'm not looking for companies that offer this service, but

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-09 Thread Brandon Kim
://www.gogrid.com/ http://www.digitalmines.com http://www.proxmox.com/products/proxmox-ve http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/ http://www.openstack.org/ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:42:10 -0500 From: r...@tifosi.com To: brandon@brandontek.com Subject: Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing