I'm not using Applogic but I did spend some time evaluating their solution as part of my former employer's migration to the cloud strategy. When I looked at them it was xen underneath along with some really slick front end webapp for provisioning. The app looked like a Visio diagram with a number of objects (firewalls, load balancers, servers, storage, full lamp stack clusters, etc) to choose from. You drag them onto the canvas and start drawing the network links between them. On the backend the application provisions all the hosts, does the IP address assignments and off you go. I had them do a webex demo and in under 15 minutes he had deployed a 4 node apache stack behind a hardware load balancer and a firewall on the frontend. The backend was a mysql database connected to a .5TB storage device. It was pretty slick. There was a lot of customization and other things you could do once you built out the basic systems. One other advantage I saw from their app vs. say VMWare you could take that entire setup you just build and make a 100% clone of the environment with basically a single right click of the mouse, including cloning the data. They touted it as an easy way to troubleshoot a production issue or once you cloned it you could ship it to another one of their datacenter cloud and have a DR site.
It all looked really slick but I never really got the chance to do a hands on evaluation due to a change in business conditions at former employer. -shane On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Neil Neely <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone out there using Applogic for building/providing cloud services? On > the flipside, anyone out there a consumer of a provider using applogic? I'm > just starting to read through the marketing material and trying to peer > through the noise to see exactly what it is offering. Looks like it uses > Xen for the virtualization piece and exports local disks via ISCSI to other > members of it's cluster and provides concepts like "virtual data centers" to > add an abstraction layer so customers can manage a lot of VM's. > > I'm not really clear on how this is all that different from running VMware > ESXi and adding a web app to drive some of the provisioning bits. Perhaps > I'm oversimplifying it though. > > I would appreciate any insight someone more familiar with it could share on > what it is/is not. > > Thanks for your time, > > -- > Neil Neely > http://neil-neely.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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