Virtualization and Grid Computing

21 Responses to “Xen remote management interfaces”

1. Chris Says:
   January 25th, 2007 at 7:44 am

   Xen and Moab Workload Manager

   http://www.clusterresources.com/products/mwm/docs/5.6resourceprovisioning.shtml

   One could build an environment similar to EC2, you could provide more flexibility to that environment. You could have VM’s launch based on load and dynamically re-allocate these resources.

2. Tim Freeman Says:
   January 25th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

   Thanks! I added it to the list.

   You could build EC2 (plus or minus features) with a number of these including workspaces, Amazon’s strength in my opinion is the amount of computers they have (and the experienced admins of such a big installation) and the resulting economies of scale.

   Speaking of EC2, I’m not sure why I included it since their infrastructure is not available for download… so I edited the entry and added a separate section for “Xen for sale” efforts (I think I copped most of these from another’s list somewhere).

3. Jerry Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

   IBM Director’s Virtualization Manager 1.0 extension has a Xen technology preview. An updated version should be out any day now…

4. Tim Freeman Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

   Thanks a lot, added.

5. James Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

   I note that http://unixshell.com is no longer accepting orders, and pointing people to http://www.tektonic.net/managed.html

6. matt Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

   Try http://www.slicehost.com

7. Tim Freeman Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

   Thanks James and matt, made the updates.

8. Tim Freeman Says:
   January 29th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

   This list has grown:
   http://www.xensource.com/partners/find_partner.html

9. Adriano Galano Says:
   January 30th, 2007 at 3:46 am

   PAN Manager with vBlades from Egenera:
   http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2006/11/egenera_xensour.html

10. Tim Freeman Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 10:57 am

    Thanks, I changed the Egenera link to this article.

11. Marvin McNett Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Usher is a VM management system I’ve built to suit our group’s needs at UCSD.

12. Havard Bjerke Says:
    January 31st, 2007 at 8:59 am

    Some Grid related tools:

    SmartDomains (deveoloped at CERN openlab) - “is a tool for automated deployment and management of distributed Xen virtual machines”
    http://smartdomains.sourceforge.net/

    Intel Grid Programming Environment - grid middleware that uses Virtual Workspaces for deploying VMs
    http://gpe4gtk.sourceforge.net/

    Tycoon - brokers Xen domains between users
    http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/tycoon/

13. Tim Freeman Says:
    January 31st, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Thanks Marvin and Havard, added.

14. Tim Freeman Says:
    June 15th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Regarding EC2: http://www.gridvm.org/workspace-ec2-integration-contextualization.html

15. Giuseppe Genovesi Says:
    September 16th, 2007 at 9:04 am

    Hi, there is also a solution from Novell, named Zenworks Orchestration Server, going out now and providing a xen/vmware management console
    Bye,
    GG

16. Tim Freeman Says:
    September 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    Added a link, thanks Giuseppe.

17. unixfoo Says:
    November 21st, 2007 at 9:26 am

    Ganeti from Google. [ http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2007/10/ganeti-virtual-server-management-in.html ]

18. Tim Freeman Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 9:07 am

    Added, thanks. unixfoo, note that projects at code.google.com do not necessarily have any contributors from Google Inc., it is a “sourceforge” type of site.

19. Tim Freeman Says:
    February 13th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Here is discussion of Ganeti @ Google:

    http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_fall07/24_RomanMarxer.pdf

20. ozona Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    you need to add easyvpshost.com to infrastructure for sale ;)

21. Tim Freeman Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Added easyvpshost.com because you’ve asked — but I’m thinking of retiring that part of it. There is a nicer list here:

    http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VirtualPrivateServerProviders/

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