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Re: vSphere support merged

 

This is a huge accomplishment, thanks to everyone for their hard work and dedication to the cause.  I'll be heading to the lab this weekend to play ;)

Cheers,


Wayne A. Walls

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On Mar 25, 2011, at 5:23, Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The hypervisor-vmware-vsphere-support blueprint merged yesterday, so Nova can now use VMware’s hypervisors on the compute nodes.  This brings the OpenStack compute options to seven: vSphere, XenServer/Xen Cloud Platform, Xen,  Hyper-V, KVM, QEMU, and UML.  LXC isn’t far behind, which will make eight.
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> I don’t normally go all Oscar Ceremony over a branch merge, but this was 5000 lines of code and over 3 months of effort, so I thought that a few thank-yous were in order:
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> ·         Neeraj Koul, Rochanglien Infimate and Sateesh Chodapuneedi for the code itself and for the automated QA systems.
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> ·         Ravi Gururaj and Milind Barve for project requirements, management and sponsorship.
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> ·         Armando Migliaccio and Salvatore Orlando for extensive peer review before we brought the branch to the community.
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> ·         Jay Pipes, Rick Harris and Rick Clark for the multiple review phases after that.
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> ·         Anne Gentle for assistance with documentation.
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> ·         Søren Hansen for updating the Hudson environment at short notice to get the merge completed.
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> ·         Thierry Carrez for release management and keeping us on track.
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> Thanks everyone,
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> Ewan.
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