[Xen-users] Easier managment interface, XCP or similar?

[Donny Brooks <dbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am evaluating our current setup and seeing if we can improve it in any 
way. Right now we have two servers running Centos 5.5 with xen4.0 via 
the gitco repo. Each server has multiple nics that are bonded and have 
raw vlans passing over it so I can assign various domu's to various 
vlans. Each server is setup to use local storage currently and uses LVM 
for domu disks. We now have a Dell MD3200i iscsi SAN that we need to 
throw in the mix along with 2 more servers. As it stands we only have 
one "production" xen server and one "test" xen server. They share no 
storage or anything currently. I need everything we currently have to 
keep working but need a better management interface and the ability to 
have HA domu's.
I have looked around and found a few projects that may work but I think 
I have ruled most out:
OpenQRM: way too convoluted to setup and not great documentation
ECP: runs KVM and the "community" version is so limited it is pitiful
Proxmox: also runs KVM and/or OpenVZ containers. While this one is 
promising and has a nice GUI with "clustering", it still lacks the HA 
features I want and is a pain to get the san to talk on more than one IP 
range (following dells recomendation to put the 4 ports of each 
controller on a separate /24)
I already have my xen dom0's setup properly with the vlan trunks and 
bond interfaces. What I need is a way to centrally manage the various 
machines with a graphical interface. Reason being is it will be easier 
to teach my fellow co-workers how to do that than to have them wrap 
their head around 4 different machines and all the command line 
operations to do various tasks. In the event that something happens to 
me I need them to be able to administer the cluster.
We do understand that adding the bonded interfaces and vlans with the 
SAN will complicate things, but this can't be a bridge that no one else 
has crossed before. I would like your input on how to manage this setup 
centrally. Also note we must do it for free as we have no spendable IT 
budget.
Donny B.

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