Re: [Xen-users] Re: preferred XEN dom0 OS

[Scott Damron <sdamron@xxxxxxxxx>]

CloudMin can manage XCP, you just have to add it in as XenServers.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Grant McWilliams
> <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> > My problem with CentOS is that CentOS 6 (rather RH6) doesn't have
>>> > native XEN anymore so our upgrade path looks a bit uncertain right
>>> > now.
>>
>> Upgrade? It's a Dom0, nothing is running on it but VMs correct? Are there
>> features that you need that CentOS5.6 doesn't have? CentOS 5.6 will run
>> CentOS 6 DomU's just fine. It seems that people think they're dead in the
>> water if their Dom0 isn't running the latest OS. The Dom0 runs VMs and
>> manages networks. It really shouldn't be doing more than that IMHO.
>>
>
> Even if it just runs VM's, we still need to keep the host OS up to
> date for security reasons, to have newer XEN features, etc etc.
>
>>> There are other differences as well (e.g. the userland program is
>>> different, "xe" instead of "xm")
>>
>> And the fact that you're then running a Citrix cloud instead of separate Xen
>> hypervisors on separate hosts. I'm migrating 60 servers to XCP (or at least
>> doing the study) right now. Virtually everything is different outside of the
>> base Dom0 OS and the Hypervisor. I will be writing up a bunch of new scripts
>> because the xe command begs to be scripted even more than the xm command
>> did. Managing remote logins will be handled by XVP for me.
>
> What are you migrating from, as matter of interest?
>
> CloudMin makes our current setup a XEN cloud, instead of a Citrix
> cloud, but it's basically the same thing already :)
>
>>>
>>> I don't think webmin/cloudmin will work on XenServer/XCP
>
>
> CloudMin can manage XenServer hosts, but not XCP, that I know of.
>
>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fajar
>>>
>>
>> Grant McWilliams
>
>
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Rudi Ahlers
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