Hello, IMHO it does look like using ACS VPC might not be the best choice for you. I would rather look at an Advanced Zone with Security Groups and public IPs instead, if you are happy to only have 1 network per VM or at Shared Networks.
Snapshots indeed are not the best way to do backups, I would advise using something specialised such as Bacula or R1soft, inside the VMs. I would still use ACS over XenCenter, mainly because it does add some nice things, such as userdata, API and a certain hypervisor agnosticism, should you ever want to move away from XS. HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Engelmann Florian" <florian.engelm...@everyware.ch> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Monday, 14 March, 2016 12:41:38 > Subject: Managed hosting and Cloudstack > Dear list, > > we do use CloudStack in production to provide VPCs and root server to our > customers. Recently we started using our CloudStack environment to implement > new managed hosting projects. For managed hosting we usually do > monitoring/alarming, backup and 24x7 support. Most of our managed hosting have > been done bare metal or VMWare based. Implementing this latest managed hosting > project, which consists of about 16 systems on CloudStack felt somehow > "wrong". > We had to use the VPCs private GW to get access to all VMs (monitoring, 24x7 > support). As no PVLAN is supported here we had to use a separated VLAN (we > will > have to do so for each managed hosting customer). The VPCs firewall GUI does > not allow any comments and is very basic. This does not allow us to track > changes and document rules. Certain tasks have to be done while logged in as > the customers CloudStack user otherwise the user would not be able to, eg. > mount extra disks. The idea was to use CloudStack snapshots to do backups but > I > don't think snapshots are like real backups (you don't know if there are any > filesystem errors) and all the scheduling and reporting about snapshots > failing > or being successful is very basic. > > Overall I was asking myself if there is any benefit of using Cloudstack over > Xenserver (our cloudstack hypervisor) to do managed hosting? It felt more like > forcing something to do a job it wasn't build for... What do you think? > > All the best, > Florian
