WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released

To: Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] XCP, Xen Cloud Control System 0.1 released
From: Vern Burke <vburke@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:25:34 -0400
Cc:
Delivery-date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:26:29 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <r2qed123fa31004070419m2879ac69h804181292065c6b2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <4BBBA15A.2090306@xxxxxxxx> <r2qed123fa31004070419m2879ac69h804181292065c6b2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4
On 4/7/2010 7:19 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote:

How does this differ from OpenXenCenter? I was hoping that we could avoid with XCP what we've done with Xen in that we have a million different gui interfaces to Xen and none of them are really THAT good. If we pool our resources we could have one or two really great fully featured guis for XCP.


Grant McWilliams
It differs from OpenXenCenter by being lightweight (no client app required, will run from any machine with even a basic browser without installing extra software, including smartphones), includes extended functionality (virtual machine watchdog, cloud host watchdog, working load balancer), and combines multiple steps in single actions (automatically stops and restarts the virtual machine when changing memory, etc). The other thing is that you never have to expose the XCP cloud password itself to the user.

I wrote this because I don't have a large staff and being mobile is critical for me. This means that I have to be able to do most if not all of my admin work from my BlackBerry smartphone. That's the beauty of open source, different focus brings different results.

Whatever anyone feels about it, I won't apologize for writing it because someone has written something similar.

Vern


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users