Re: [Xen-users] Cluster (VPC), Eucalyptus and preferred distribution to it.

[Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here here, I agree 110%.

- Brian




On Mar 27, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro wrote:
> > I do not want to start a flame war, but we need the Eucalyptus
> > officially supported in Debian. My Xen cluster is powered Debian 5.0.
> >
> > Look well, Ubuntu is the most voted there, BUT, he does not  
> > officially
> > supports the Xen, only KVM, the Eucalyptus in Ubuntu will not support
> > Xen out of the box, I guess, since Ubuntu does not provide support  
> > for dom0.
> > But the Xen in Debian is very stable! So it would be great if the
> > Eucalyptus support Debian too!
> There is no issue between Ubuntu and Debian. Any of it will be fine as
> it's the same apt/dpkg system, so if one of them is supported, then
> porting will be extremely easy.
>
> By the way, I see no importance in the so-called "cloud". I know it  
> goes
> on the opposite way of the current fashion, but I strongly believe  
> that
> if you need power, then a cluster of REAL servers (eg: not virtual) is
> obviously the way to go. If you don't need lot's of resources, then a
> small VPS or 2 are enough. The number of times you will really need
> scalability are so small, and even though, scalability can be achieved
> without using could.
>
> Give me ONE real life example of something in production and I may
> change my mind...
>
> Also, doing a design decision only because of a "vote" is silly to me.
> That shouldn't be the case, the decision should be made out of  
> technical
> aspects, not because people like a particular distro.
>
> Thomas
>
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