[colug-432] virtualization, clouds, and infrastructure

[Brian Miller]

On 12/15/2010 03:38 PM, Scott Merrill wrote:

> On a similar vein, how are you folks handling the management of
> virtualized servers in your environments? It's trivial with KVM and
> similar tools to run a couple of virtual instances on a single
> physical box. It's not so trivial to run those virtual instances in a
> highly available fashion across a cluster of physical machines.

We use Vmotion in our environment.  Another (pay) option is Platespin, 
which Novell obtained by a buyout a few years back. See
  http://www.novell.com/products/migrate/  for more details.  We never 
really evaluated it, but I did watch a demonstration once.  It seemed 
pretty good.  Of course, you'd be dealing with Novell, so depending on 
your politics and/or concern over what Attachemate might do, you might 
want to wait.