Thanks everyone for your input today on this topic. I wanted to recap with a list of sites that everyone has suggested both online and offline for FYI purposes.
http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/ http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/default.aspx http://cloud.com http://www.gogrid.com/ http://www.digitalmines.com http://www.proxmox.com/products/proxmox-ve http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/ http://www.openstack.org/ > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:42:10 -0500 > From: r...@tifosi.com > To: brandon....@brandontek.com > Subject: Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing > > Brandon Kim wrote: > > <> I'm not looking for companies that offer this service, but the > <> actual software engines that allow you to create VM's on the fly. So a > <> customer goes to your website and says I want Win2008 with 8gigs of > <> RAM and 120gigs of HDD. Just like custom configuring a new PC. > <> > <> Does anyone here have experience or knowledge of companies that > <> offer this type of software engine? > > OpenStack may be (at least part) of what you're looking for. The > primary development is from NASA and RackSpace: > > http://openstack.org/ > > I have no experience of my own with it yet, but am planning an eval of > it. > > Reto > -- > R A Lichtensteiger r...@tifosi.com > > "Yes, you're doing things right, but are you doing the right things?" > "Nope. I'm just doing something dumb fast."
