We too was evaluating ScaleIO on XS, now we move to KVM or Hyper-V but always with ScaleIO, I don't understand your concern about ScaleIO on KVM.
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:32 PM, S. Brüseke - proIO GmbH < s.brues...@proio.com> wrote: > Hi Alessandro, > > we are in the same situation with using XenServer 6.5. Besides it will not > be patched XS6.5 has poor memory performance. We are in the middle of > evaluating KVM with ScaleIO to get rid of XenServer in the near future. I > am stuck right now on how to mount a ScaleIO volume do a KVM host. > Migrate all VMs will be a pain in the ass, but XenServer is not the way to > go after all the decisions Citrix did in the past with its hypervisor. > > We are more Linux related so Hyper-V is not an option for us and as far as > I know you cannot mix Hyper-V with other hypervisors in the same zone in > Cloudstack. But I am not sure if this limitation is still present in the > latest stable release. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards, > > Swen > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Alessandro Caviglione [mailto:c.alessan...@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Samstag, 3. Februar 2018 01:10 > An: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Betreff: Re: XenServer Licensing Change - Switch Hypervisors? > > Hi all, > I'm also trying to find a solution, our infrastructure is based on XS6.5 > that will not patched on meltdown and spectre so we're considering to > create new cluster based on a different hypervisor instead of upgrade to > XS7.2. > In fact, I think that all here work for a company that has a MS SPLA > agreement in place, so my question is: since we're already paying MS > Datacenter license, what do you think about Hyper-V under Cloudstack? > I'm trying to compare it versus KVM... > > > Thank you. > > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 3:18 AM, Pierre-Luc Dion <pd...@cloudops.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Dingo, > > > > That's an interesting answer to recent citrix licensing change for > > xenserver, I'll definitely keep an eye on this project! > > > > thanks! > > > > > > *Pierre-Luc DION* > > Architecte de Solution Cloud | Cloud Solutions Architect t > > 855.652.5683 > > > > *CloudOps* Votre partenaire infonuagique* | *Cloud Solutions Experts > > 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 w cloudops.com *|* tw > > @CloudOps_ > > > > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > - proIO GmbH - > Geschäftsführer: Swen Brüseke > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main > > USt-IdNr. 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