RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

[Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com>]

Thanks everyone for your input today on this topic. I wanted to recap with a list of sites that everyone has suggested
both online and offline for FYI purposes.


http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/default.aspx

http://cloud.com

http://www.gogrid.com/

http://www.digitalmines.com

http://www.proxmox.com/products/proxmox-ve

http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/

http://www.openstack.org/








> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:42:10 -0500
> From: rali () tifosi com
> To: brandon.kim () brandontek com
> Subject: Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing
>
> Brandon Kim wrote:
>
> <> I'm not looking for companies that offer this service, but the
> <> actual software engines that allow you to create VM's on the fly. So a
> <> customer goes to your website and says I want Win2008 with 8gigs of
> <> RAM and 120gigs of HDD.  Just like custom configuring a new PC.
> <> 
> <> Does anyone here have experience or knowledge of companies that
> <> offer this type of software engine?
>
> OpenStack may be (at least part) of what you're looking for.  The
> primary development is from NASA and RackSpace:
>
>   http://openstack.org/
>
> I have no experience of my own with it yet, but am planning an eval of
> it.
>
> Reto
> -- 
> R A Lichtensteiger    rali () tifosi com
>
>     "Yes, you're doing things right, but are you doing the right things?"
>     "Nope.  I'm just doing something dumb fast."