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 level of those operating the system. I've used a lot of virtualisation systems and these days consider most of them pretty much turnkey (commercial and OSS alike). Really, you install them, setup networking and install some virtual boxes. Options like OpenVZ come with precooked images that you can start with so you don't even need to do an install if you don't want to. Anything as complicated as virtualisation is always going to have some learning curve though.
But I do know that if we have to invest in writing a lot of custom scripts to get what we want, then we don't have the resources for that....
Most of the virtualisation systems I've setup are operated by the sysadmins from the cli. I often write custom scripts to wrapper functions but in reality these are often very short, sometimes just a few lines long. BTW I think this would be a perfect topic for a SAGE or LOPSA list. If you're involved in this sort of work then you may wish to consider joining one or both of these organisations and participating in the lists. Cheers, Rob -- Email: robert@timetraveller.org Linux counter ID #16440 IRC: Solver (OFTC & Freenode) Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com Contributing member of Software in the Public Interest (http://spi-inc.org/) Open Source: The revolution that silently changed the world