<div>Hi Jay,<br> <br>Thanks for information.<br> <br>As it is observed that there is some work going on by UCIS team for "Folsom" release on Heterogeneous support.<br> <br>Please find the below link:<br> <br>i) <a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/ScheduleHeterogeneousInstances">http://wiki.openstack.org/ScheduleHeterogeneousInstances</a></div>
<div>ii) <a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/HeterogeneousArchitectureScheduler">http://wiki.openstack.org/HeterogeneousArchitectureScheduler</a></div>
<div><br>which discusses about support for Heterogeneous platform support for Open Stack.<br> <br>Also in one of the document published by Rackspace, it is said that the heterogeneous platform support can be done by having multiple "Zones" in the cloud. But i doubt this way will have more performance impact and also have more complex networking issues.<br>
<br>It is observed that Essex Release is not supporting Zones and came to know from mailing list that this support will be available in Folsom release as "Cells".<br> <br>I think that this heterogeneous platform support will enable more options for service providers and as well users for L2/L3 services applications like security services,WAF,LB etc on different platforms in cloud network.<br>
<br>Iam sorrry if the below queries didnt gave clear information.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Jay Pipes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaypipes@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaypipes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 07/02/2012 12:09 PM, balaji patnala wrote:<br>> Hi Jay,<br>><br>> As you know that L2 and L3 services could be the next step of offering<br>> as Services from Cloud providers. Security Applications like<br>
> WAF,IPS,Firewall,VPN etc can be offered as services. These security<br>> applications can be run in VMs on Heterogeneous hardware like Freescale<br>> and any other platforms.<br><br></div>I'm not sure if heterogeneous hardware supported is specifically related<br>
to security, but ...<br>
<div class="im"><br>> Open Stack must support for the Heterogeneous hardware to enable<br>> different hardware platforms apart from x86.<br><br></div>There's nothing about OpenStack, in general, that is specific to x86<br>
hardware. It's Python, so if the Linux distribution of your preference<br>runs on some other hardware architecture, have at it. The images you<br>deploy will need to be tailored to the hardware architecture, of course,<br>
but that isn't the realm of what OpenStack services do -- that's up to<br>the deployer.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> Please share with us if you have any examples of similar deployments in<br>> Clouds.<br><br></div>ISI is the group most actively working on heterogeneous architecture<br>support, but I don't believe they are focusing on security-related<br>
things at all.<br><br>Best,<br>-jay<br>
<div class="im"><br>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jay Pipes <<a href="mailto:jaypipes@gmail.com">jaypipes@gmail.com</a><br></div>
<div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jaypipes@gmail.com">jaypipes@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> On 07/02/2012 01:23 AM, balaji patnala wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > Does open stack [Essex] release support Heterogeneous hardware for<br>
> > creating VMs with Security Applications?<br>> > If not, what is the road map for this. Please let me know.<br>><br>> Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "creating VMs with<br>
> security applications"?<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> -jay<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>
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