RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

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

Thanks guys for keeping this topic alive. =)

I'm leaning towards the opensource or at least the Xen side of things. I haven't yet fully evaluated vCloud Director 
but I get the gut
feeling that anything "VMware" is going to be costly. 

Is that a fair assumption? 

The issue is that I'm looking for an application that is as turnkey as possible, even if it's a little bit more. That 
"could" be vCloud Director, I don't know yet....

But I do know that if we have to invest in writing a lot of custom scripts to get what we want, then we don't have the 
resources for that....






> Subject: Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing
> From: nderitualex () gmail com
> To: brandon.kim () brandontek com
> CC: nanog () nanog org
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:00:52 +0300
>
> Brandon, 
> It really depends on the hypervisor in operation. You can take a look at
> vCloud Director (http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/) and
> BMC
> (http://www.bmc.com/products/product-listing/bmc-cloud-lifecycle-management.html)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com>
> To: nanog group <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: OT: VM slicing and dicing
> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:17:50 -0500
>
> Hey gents:
>
> As always I value your input. Best resource on the planet! =)
> I'm hoping this isn't too off-topic if so please respond to me offline if so.
>
> I figured since most of everyone here are operators working in a datacenter, you may or may
> not have experience with virtualization software that allows you to configure VM's on the fly.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Brandon
>
>