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[Anne Gentle <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ewan especially, the list as well -

Does anyone have writing resources we could request an assist from to
write up the XenServer instructions on the docs.openstack.org site in
time for the Essex release? I'd be happy to facilitate. We could
expand the new Install/Deploy Guide to include XenServer in addition
to KVM and meet this use case, or add a chapter to the Compute Admin
guide.

If you know of a writer or a devops/sys admin person interested in
this specific writing task, contact me via email, anne at openstack
dot org. I'd prefer to start with a writeup for XenServer rather than
XCP but would of course work with you on the vision here. This task
looks like a great opportunity to improve the docs.

Thanks,
Anne

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you want Microsoft to take a phone call, then you need a hypervisor with the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certificate: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx
>
> That includes Citrix XenServer, Red Hat RHEL and RHEV, Oracle VM, Novell SLES, and VMware ESX.
>
> Basically the answer is that you need a commercial hypervisor (because SVVP certification takes weeks to do, and months up front to get the drivers and hypervisor perfect).
>
> If you'll excuse me a corporate plug for a moment, Windows support is one area that XenServer does particularly well (it's very much in line with Citrix's business).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ewan.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Tim Bell
>> Sent: 28 January 2012 12:35
>> To: Sandy Walsh; Thierry Carrez; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting
>>
>>
>> With the Hyper-V support  being phased out, I would be interested to
>> understand:
>>
>> - What hypervisors are being used for running Windows guests (both
>> Windows 7 and Windows Server) on top of OpenStack ?
>> - To what extent will Microsoft support problems reported with a
>> Windows guest running on a non-Microsoft hypervisor ?
>> - Are there other sites who are affected by this proposal who would be
>> willing to invest effort to maintain the Hyper-V support ?
>>
>> Tim Bell
>> CERN
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Sandy Walsh
>> Sent: 27 January 2012 16:45
>> To: Thierry Carrez; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting
>>
>> I'll be taking the existing Zones code out of API and Distributed
>> Scheduler.
>> The new Zones infrastructure is an optional component.
>>
>> -S
>> ________________________________________
>> From: openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on
>> behalf of Thierry Carrez [thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:23 AM
>> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting
>>
>> Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to
>> consider removing deprecated, known-buggy-and-unmaintained or useless
>> feature code from the Essex tree.
>>
>> Here are my suggestions for removal:
>>
>> - Ajaxterm (unmaintained, security issues, replaced by VNC console)
>> - Hyper-V support (known broken and unmaintained)
>>
>> I'm sure that everyone has suggestions on other dead wood that we
>> should cut now rather than ship in Essex... please comment.
>>
>> --
>> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>> Release Manager, OpenStack
>>
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