Red Hat Quietly Joins the OpenStack Effort

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by jzb • 14 years ago

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rwmj2• 14 years ago

Aeolus is different from OpenStack.

. Aeolus is GUI for controlling and migrating workloads across heterogeneous clouds. eg. Start your loads running on AWS, migrate them to Rackspace or another OpenStack cloud.

. OpenStack is a (kind of) open source equivalent of AWS, so you can run a private or public cloud on your own equipment.

As for Red Hat's involvement. Well, code and contributions talk. Hot air from Microsoft and others, walks ...

3am• 14 years ago

OpenStack isn't an open source AWS, it's also vm management. It works with XenServer, KVM and ESX. I can't speak for Aeolus, but OS had 3 components last I checked (Nova - the app server, Swift - storage, and Glance - image catalog). I think they were working on an auth module (Keystone?) and network virtualization (Quantum).

I don't think they support migrating between heterogeneous cloud types (which is a complicated beast), though. Does Aeolus really do that?

Love what you said about code + contributions vs. lip services!

bonzini• 14 years ago

If anything, OpenStack is more of a competitor to oVirt, though there are significant differences between the two.

rwmj2• 14 years ago

I didn't mean to imply that OpenStack was "open source AWS", just that it's analogous. Of course OpenStack does more, is more interesting (because it's open source), and is only going to get better.

Migration is an interesting point: The aim is definitely to do non-live migration, possibly using Snap[1]. At the moment you can recreate configurations on different clouds[2].

[1] http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/356 [2] http://aeolusproject.org/about.html

Red Hat Quietly Joins the OpenStack Effort

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