On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: > 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. >
It's kinda of nice, but I think you have proven that you can tackle a much more challenging problem than this one. tackle this instead: https://github.com/Netflix/Cloud-Prize/wiki > 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
