Re: [Xen-users] [XCP] questions

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:55:35PM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> I'm looking at XCP with interest. My environment right now is SLES10 and
> SLES11 servers. I've always had issues with memory where the servers
> stop responding after an undetermined amount of time even though xm info
> says plenty of RAM is available. Sometimes xm itself hangs. Sometimes a
> hard reboot is even required. It got better with SLES11 and xen 3.4.2
> with ballooning disabled, but I don't think it's entirely gone.
> 

Hmm.. nothing in the logs? Do you have serial consoles set up so you can 
log the errors/crashes?

XCP is currently using Xen 3.4.2 hypervisor, but the management tools are 
different in dom0.. XCP has xapi/xe and different xenstored implementation.

> I'm also interested in having some tools that make managing my domUs a
> little bit easier. It would be nice to be able to safely give others
> more access to administration as well. 
> 
> I looked at moving to XenServer a few months ago and even built a
> XenServer, but it didn't appear to support ocfs2 which I use for my
> shared storage. I could get probably get away from ocfs2, but it seems
> to work well for me. I see that this is planned for XCP. The other issue
> I had with XenServer was converting my 35-40 domU's over looked like it
> would be a huge project by itself. 
> 
> My questions are:
> Is anyone using XCP yet?
> 

I've heard of many people using/testing it.

> Any guesses on how long before it would be considered acceptable for
> production use?
> 
> Any eta on ocfs2 support? It's currently listed at the bottom of the
> Roadmap if that has any significance. 
> 
> Will I be able to easily move my file based domU's over to XCP?
> 

XCP is pretty much like XenServer, so similar V2V process is needed for both.. 
you could use some of the products made for that purpose, or create a custom 
script that does it.. (especially if your' domUs are pretty similar).

-- Pasi


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