Good luck, Sean. It should be doable. If you're buying new Intel hardware, make sure it supports the invpcid cpu flag, or buy AMD Epyc. See my other recent email on the list about performance implications of Meltdown.
-- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean Lair" <sl...@ippathways.com> > To: "users" <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > Sent: Sunday, 7 January, 2018 18:20:11 > Subject: RE: XenServer Licensing Change - Switch Hypervisors? > Thanks for the reply Nux, yea we originally chose XenServer over KVM because > KVM > didn't support all of the VM snapshot functionality of XenServer. > > We are evaluating switching to KVM now... But don't have a good way of moving > customers over from XenServer host to KVM hosts... > > We are on XenServer 6.5 and with the new Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities > not being patched in 6.5... We may accelerate the move to KVM. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro] > Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 4:22 PM > To: users <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: Re: XenServer Licensing Change - Switch Hypervisors? > > If you have expertise with XenServer and don't mind paying, then it's not a > bad > direction to follow. It's a nice HV. > On the long term I think KVM will be a much better solution though. > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sean Lair" <sl...@ippathways.com> >> To: "users" <users@cloudstack.apache.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, 3 January, 2018 00:53:32 >> Subject: XenServer Licensing Change - Switch Hypervisors? > >> It looks like XenServer 7.3 will no longer have the following features >> in the Free Edition. Is anyone considering moving from Free to >> Standard Edition or possibly to another hyper-visor (like KVM) for their >> CloudStack environment? >> >> Thoughts? We are looking more at KVM at this point, any feature gaps >> we should be aware of? >> >> Free Edition Changes >> >> - Limited to up to 3 hosts per clusters >> >> - No Pool High-Availability >> >> - No Dynamic Memory Control (DMC) >> >> https://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/product-over >> view/citrix-xenserver-feature-matrix.pdf >> >> Thanks > > Sean
