On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Jan Lambertz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Clouders, > > i'm planning a infrastructure setup for a quite large software development > project. developer workstations have to be virtual desktops for many > different reasons. the development infrastructure (database, ticket, > domain, kerberos, mail, print, middleware, clients, net, storage, build, > test, versioning, and so on) must be able to grow fast and be flexible. > I had a look at different software like: Ovirt, Citrix XenDesktop, > OpenStack, Opennebula, OSDTV.. and perhaps some more i have already > forgotten. > Nothing seems to bring VDI and IaaS really together. of course i know that > it's possible to setup Citrix for VDI and some IaaS platform for the rest > but i already have quite a big bag of software, servers, technology to > manage and don't want to put another thing on top. > What comes closest seems to be Citrix XenDesktop but this will get very > expensive and i'm not a big fan of closed source. > > So, my question, does anyone have experience with something like this ? how > do you solve similar problems ?
Look at VCL (http://vcl.apache.org) It does a good chunk of what you want, and one of the VCL committers was recently looking at adding CloudStack support. --David
