In March, 2011, we released the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 1.0, a fully-featured server virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor. In this talk we'll explore: - Xapi, the XenAPI management daemon, written in OCaml; - Cool functionality, such as live VM migration between hosts (with no shared storage); - PCI device passthrough to VMs for native performance; - A new system architecture designed to provide XCP with better security, scalability, performance, and reliability; - Future directions and next year's roadmap. In March, 2011, we released the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 1.0, a fully-featured server virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor. XCP ad s additional functionality on top of Xen, such as a management server for ease of use and configurability, storage and network management, and easy integration with cloud orchestration layers like OpenStack and CloudStack. Today, Xen and XCP power the largest clouds in production. In this talk we'll explore: - Xapi, the XenAPI management daemon, written in OCaml; - Cool functionality, such as live VM migration between hosts (with no shared storage); - PCI device passthrough to VMs for native performance; - A new system architecture designed to provide XCP with better security, scalability, performance, and reliability; - Future directions and next year's roadmap.
2. What is XCP? 3. An open source XenServer Open source edition
of Citrix XenServer Contains most of the features of XenServer
Platinum Only open source components included; no licensing
Released as stable versions in parallel with XenServer Will begin
to release periodic development snapshots 4. Okay, but what is XCP?
Full name: Xen Cloud Platform Based on Xen hypervisor, Xapi
management server Distributed as a full OS (based on CentOS dom0)
Enterprise-ready server virtualization platform Supports both
OpenStack and CloudStack 5. XCP features XCP hosts can be organised
as resource pools Easy set-up of storage repositories, virtual
networking withOpen vSwitch, templates for quick VM installation VM
suspend/resume, import/export, live migration Very good CLI, useful
for scripting XML-RPC based API for developing applications GUIs:
OpenXenManager, XenCenter (free-as-in-beer) 6. Porting the XCP
toolstack 7. Project Kronos Awesome name etymology Second moon of
Klingon home world Greek mythology: Titan, father of Zeus Porting
XCPs toolstack (xapi server, storage managers, andrelated tools) to
Debian and Ubuntu Currently in Wheezy, first stable release in
Ubuntu Precise Allows people to use and repackage XCPs xapi to
build theirown custom dom0 configuration 8. But what about XCP?!?!
XCP will still remain a stable, enterprise-ready platform Continue
to release stable, XenServer pinned versions Still committed to
providing an enterprise-ready virt. platform Now we have multiple
ways to make use of Xapi Stable releases of XCP proper Development
preview releases of XCP Stable releases of XCP toolstack through OS
vendors Unstable, development branch of XCP toolstack 9. Next
steps: Project Zeus Son of Kronos, remember? Porting XCP toolstack
to Fedora and CentOS Targeting Fedora 17, also EPEL for CentOS
Perhaps SUSE next? Any volunteers? 10. The exciting demo! 11. For
more info... Go to http://www.xen.org XCP source:
http://www.github.com/xen-org My DevStack:
http://www.github.com/mcclurmc/devstack xen-api mailing list
#xen-api on Freenode Xen tutorial tomorrow afternoon Questions? 12.
The exciting lame demo!
