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: rali@tifosi.com To: brandon.kim@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:
I have no experience of my own with it yet, but am planning an eval of it.
Reto -- R A Lichtensteiger rali@tifosi.com
"Yes, you're doing things right, but are you doing the right things?" "Nope. I'm just doing something dumb fast."