| Posted by John[H4Y], 08-25-2010, 12:35 PM | |
Hello,
We have a large client with many dedicated servers who does VPS hosting (actually a pretty popular provider here). They are looking to get into Cloud Hosting for their clients and came to us for help. I am wondering if there is a defacto howto somewhere or a good resource to start them off with? Something that would take them through a typical hardware and software setup - a howto. Any ideas?
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| Posted by eming, 08-25-2010, 01:18 PM | |
your best bet would be to go with a turnkey platform - there are a few of them out there already that work with commodity hardware and deals with everything from deployment, HA, usermanagement and even billing.
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| Posted by MikeTrike, 08-25-2010, 01:19 PM | |
Start here if you want commercial with client interfaces:
http://onapp.com/ (OnApp utilizes your existing server infrastructure with Xen Hypervisor technology to provide a powerfully flexible and secure virtual architecture, enabling custom virtual machines and applications to be set up and hosted over secure cloud servers, both public and private.)
http://cloud.com/main/ (Cloud.com CloudStack software is designed to work with open source Xen and KVM hypervisors as well as enterprise-grade hypervisors such as VMware vSphere or Citrix XenServer.)
OnApp has their pricing listed, Cloud.com does not have it listed as far as I can tell. These are just two of the bigger options.
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| Posted by ckeck, 08-25-2010, 02:20 PM | |
OpenStack
www.openstack.org
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| Posted by Caroline_9429, 08-26-2010, 03:43 AM | |
2nd'ed, OnApp does all you are looking for.
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| Posted by troboy, 09-13-2010, 08:30 AM | |
Used by VPS.net
+1 for them
If you have enough money to spend, I would recommend you VMware
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| Posted by Caroline_9429, 09-13-2010, 09:27 AM | |
You can't really compare OnApp to VMware and be comparing apples with apples.
OnApp is specifically designed for Hosting companies so many of the functions are better for hosters.
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| Posted by MikeTrike, 09-13-2010, 09:33 AM | |
That and he's probably going to need so shell out a bunch of cash to code a client interface for VMware.
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| Posted by troboy, 09-13-2010, 09:35 AM | |
OnAPP uses Xen or KVM
VMware have their own technology
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| Posted by Caroline_9429, 09-13-2010, 10:04 AM | |
We are finalising VMware integration
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| Posted by IGobyTerry, 09-13-2010, 11:12 AM | |
The thing with OpenStack is it will require a very significant investment to get it to work with your system. OpenStack is great, but it's not meant for hosting -- it's meant for enterprise clients, like Progressive Insurance, who can devote an entire team to the implementation.
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