On 09/24/2015 09:13 PM, Will Beazley wrote:
Related question: since the thread has been scheduled (abuse of
concept, yet not quite a pun):
SmartOS as a VDI server (KVM, LX, native)? I am not looking to
undertake this, it is more an ask as a 'Point of Information'.
I have ~50 users using at least 3 VMs each (more than 180 VMs in total)
spread across 10 hypervisors all on SmartOS. We're using Linux as the
Spice client, but if you don't need USB passthrough Windows can work as
a client too. We run both Linux and Windows guest VMs.
See https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Spice+on+SmartOS
That said, it's very do-it-yourself. I'm reasonably pleased with it, but
that doesn't mean it's for everyone at this stage.
Our VMs are relatively stateless with home directories and work
materials on NFS/CIFS servers (which happen to also be SmartOS) which
means that the occasional hypervisor failure isn't catastrophic (spin up
new VMs for the user on a different hypervisor so they can get back to
work) which is different than the classic scheme you see with VMware of
NAS/SAN storage backing the VM images so that VMs can be seamlessly
migrated between hypervisor nodes.
In short, it can and has been done, but it's not for everyone.
-Nahum
P.S. If anyone is looking to pay for a VDI system built on top of
SDC/SmartOS rather than the alternatives, I'm conducting very informal
market research on the subject; get in touch. :)
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