Hi, I'm looking for peoples personal opinions.
I'm thinking about undertaking a project for a 2 month college assignment sometime in the future to create an API wrapper and web front end with the end goal of producing something like the rackspace or linode web-ui. I do realise 'basic cloud' is a solved problem, but I'm not seeing any *open source projects* that allow for user sign up, select a package offering, billing, ticketing etc. along with basic instance/vm management. The cost of setting up a demo lab seems somewhat expensive. My idea was: 1 xenserver with 16gb+ ram make use of local storage, 1 cloudstack manager/secondary storage 2gb+ of ram, finally something to host the wrapper and web app. What hardware would you recommend for creating a budget, portable and quiet demo lab? Do you think I would be better of renting? If so are their any companies you would suggestion? Thanks, Ian
