[TriLUG] Hosting Services w/ Ipower

[jason tower]

i appreciate the referrals from ron and chris.  we're actually moving 
away from vmware (don't worry chris, we'll continue supporting you!) 
towards a completely open source virtualization solution such as xen or 
kvm.  actually we've been running a xen paravirt server for a couple of 
years, it's rock solid with excellent performance but requires 
cooperation from the guest vm to run which isn't always possible.  the 
recent opteron cpus (with svm flag) should eliminate that requirement, 
i've been playing around with kvm on my athlon x2 desktop running ubuntu 
hardy and it's pretty slick.  still not fully baked but combines the 
speed of paravirt with the flexibility of vmware.

jason

Justis Peters wrote:
> Thanks to both Ron Joffe and Christopher Merrill for pointing me to 
> Cerient and Jason Tower.  I already knew that Cerient has quite a few 
> customers on Xen and VMware, but I didn't know that they provided the 
> exact nature of hosting I needed.  Ironically, I had been planning to 
> ask Jason if he would consider providing such a service so that I didn't 
> have to keep looking.  Sometimes I should learn to just ask.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Justis
> 
> Christopher L Merrill wrote:
>> Local provider Cerient (Jason Tower) does exactly this for us with VMware.
>>
>> http://www.cerient.net/
>>
>>
>> Justis Peters wrote:
>>   
>>> Does anybody know of a VPS host that makes a VPS truly portable? I want 
>>> to be able to prototype my VPS locally, using Xen or VMware, and then 
>>> deploy it to a production server at a hosting facility. I would also 
>>> like to be able to pull snapshots of the currently running image and 
>>> tinker with it locally. Is there anyone who actually offers VPS services 
>>> with this flexibility, or is VPS just an alternative sale to "dedicated 
>>> server" in their mind?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Justis
>>>     
>>
>>   
>