quad3d@work
September 22nd, 2008, 12:35 PM
Looking for a "working" solution but couldn't find any...
My company is starting to deploy Xen to replace VMware free. I am 100% comfortable working with Xen on CLI, but upper management is requesting if any GUI tool can be installed along side CLI. Mainly for the Windows team to manage Windows server domUs.
There are three tools I'm currently looking at and here is my findings.
1) Enomalism
Seems to be a good tool but I cannot get it working under Ubuntu nor CentOS. Even the developers stated Ubuntu's Xen is broken (which is not), and Ubuntu is moving toward KVM. They mentioned RHEL/CentOS have "near perferct" Xen implementation and recommends using CentOS+Xen+Enomalism.
I've deployed couple Linux/Windows/Solaris(OpenSolaris) domUs for past few months and the Ubuntu server is getting hammered. Not a single issue.
I find Enomalism just too broke to be usable. I followed their installation on Wiki to the dot.
2) Bixdata
It's not really a Xen/VMware management tool. More like a generic system management/monitoring tool. Not suitable in my case.
3) Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
I tried to get it working 3-4 months ago, never worked. I think it was the libvertd being broken. Sun xVM uses this and my company's Solaris team have decent amount of success with it.
I would need something matching the following,
1) Detailed resource monitoring, something uses RRDTool I guess. CPUs, HD, network... etc.
2) Complete domU management. This includes new domU creation, resource assignements, snapshot (with LVM would be nice :) ).
3) Backend management for HVM guests. This is more of VNC connection, in case RDP/FreeNX don't work.
I also are interested in Zentific, but they are not released yet. I'm wondering if anyone done a working Ubuntu+Xen 3.2+Enomalism successful installation? Thanks in advance for any advices/tips! :guitar:
My company is starting to deploy Xen to replace VMware free. I am 100% comfortable working with Xen on CLI, but upper management is requesting if any GUI tool can be installed along side CLI. Mainly for the Windows team to manage Windows server domUs.
There are three tools I'm currently looking at and here is my findings.
1) Enomalism
Seems to be a good tool but I cannot get it working under Ubuntu nor CentOS. Even the developers stated Ubuntu's Xen is broken (which is not), and Ubuntu is moving toward KVM. They mentioned RHEL/CentOS have "near perferct" Xen implementation and recommends using CentOS+Xen+Enomalism.
I've deployed couple Linux/Windows/Solaris(OpenSolaris) domUs for past few months and the Ubuntu server is getting hammered. Not a single issue.
I find Enomalism just too broke to be usable. I followed their installation on Wiki to the dot.
2) Bixdata
It's not really a Xen/VMware management tool. More like a generic system management/monitoring tool. Not suitable in my case.
3) Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
I tried to get it working 3-4 months ago, never worked. I think it was the libvertd being broken. Sun xVM uses this and my company's Solaris team have decent amount of success with it.
I would need something matching the following,
1) Detailed resource monitoring, something uses RRDTool I guess. CPUs, HD, network... etc.
2) Complete domU management. This includes new domU creation, resource assignements, snapshot (with LVM would be nice :) ).
3) Backend management for HVM guests. This is more of VNC connection, in case RDP/FreeNX don't work.
I also are interested in Zentific, but they are not released yet. I'm wondering if anyone done a working Ubuntu+Xen 3.2+Enomalism successful installation? Thanks in advance for any advices/tips! :guitar: