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Re: [Xen-users] xen equivalent of vmware v-motion and drs? 
| On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:22:58 +0000
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm new to virtualization and have been trying to see what various products
> > are capable of.   Vmware has a project called "v-motion" which lets you
> > move VMs from one physical machine to another, and they have another called
> > "drs" (distributed resource scheduler?) which automates this motion based
> > on performance profiles -- e.g. how much cpu or memory is being used, etc. 
> > (I haven't tried it out myself)
> 
> "vmotion" is called "live migration" in Xen.  This works for Xen-native
> guests (paravirtualised) but there's work underway to support this in HVM
> (fully virtualised) guests too.  xen-unstable may already contain this
> support in which case it would be in the 3.0.5 release.
> 
> > Is there anything similar for Xen?
> 
> The open source Xen doesn't have the resource scheduler, but there are loads 
> of management tools now available (in various states of development) to make 
> organising VMs easier.
Actually just yesterday I enumerated the management tools I could think of, if
anyone has additions to make, please do.
http://www.gridvm.org/xen-remote-management-interfaces.html
Thanks,
Tim
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