RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-16 Thread Holmes,David A
tches? -Original Message- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:04 AM To: mysi...@gmail.com Cc: nanog group Subject: RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing Thanks for the suggestions James! One of the issues I had, (which is why I turned to NANOG) was t

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Brandon Kim wrote: The issue is that I'm looking for an application that is as turnkey as possible, even if it's a little bit more. That "could" be vCloud Director, I don't know yet Hi Brandon. Turnkey is a relative term - relative to the experience and knowledge le

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-16 Thread David Hubbard
From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] > > > One question I do have for any that actually read through > this entire email (haha) is about the physical network > switch. Is there a case for the switch, especially > in today's high density environment to go with 1GIG switches >

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-16 Thread Brandon Kim
email (haha) is about the physical network switch. Is there a case for the switch, especially in today's high density environment to go with 1GIG switches as the minimum? It seems pretty obvious but I'm wondering if it's really a necessity? Can anyone on this list argue that 10/100 w

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread James Hess
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, 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 lik

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread Brandon Kim
;t have the resources for that.... > Subject: Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing > From: nderitua...@gmail.com > To: brandon@brandontek.com > CC: nanog@nanog.org > Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:00:52 +0300 > > Brandon, > It really depends on the hypervisor in operation

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Kamiru
Brandon, It really depends on the hypervisor in operation. You can take a look at vCloud Director (http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/) and BMC (http://www.bmc.com/products/product-listing/bmc-cloud-lifecycle-management.html) -Original Message- From: Brandon Kim To: nanog gro

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread Raymond Macharia
I know VMWare has something that allows you to do what you are asking (vSphere I believe but I stand to be corrected). Though I am not so sure about the "on the fly" as any Vm enviroment requires careful planning before starting to add the VMs to your hardware Regards Raymond Macharia On Tue, No

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: > >> I use Proxmox exclusively and am very happy with it. It's a great product. >> You might need to do a bit of CLI work if you want to support multiple VLANS >> or other slightly advanced featu

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-12 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 11/12/2010 12:09 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: I use Proxmox exclusively and am very happy with it. It's a great product. You might need to do a bit of CLI work if you want to support multiple VLANS or other slightly advanced features. I'm lazy but

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-12 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: I use Proxmox exclusively and am very happy with it. It's a great product. You might need to do a bit of CLI work if you want to support multiple VLANS or other slightly advanced features. I'm lazy but I might get around to patching the web UI at som

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-12 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 11/9/2010 2:38 PM, Brandon Kim wrote: 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.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/default.aspx I haven't used system center, bu

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-09 Thread Brandon Kim
://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 slicin

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-09 Thread chaim rieger
Kvm, opensource and closed Virt-manager will be your open source manager for this Also look into proxmox.

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-09 Thread Greg Whynott
if you are using KVM (or even VMware) and you can write shell scripts, you can do this in house.both have the ability to create VMs from the command line. in KVM you can create a VM with a one liner. -g On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: > > Hey gents: > > As always I val