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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Hi All, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>We have read from others that the dynamic and large number VM provisioning might be a pain, e.g. <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6719385" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#006FA6;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6719385</span></a> The scenario is that the number of instances for any application is continuously changing, and the number is as large as hundreds of instances in hundreds of nodes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>However, with our limited investigation, we still see that it takes 200 seconds to 700 seconds for OpenStack to launch 100 instances. So, we wonder if large scale provisioning and the time involved could translate into a true pain for Datacenter operators? If it is, perhaps OpenStack already addresses this but we are just not aware. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Would a more effective way of VM provisioning, if integrated into OpenStack, be of any value? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Best Regards <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Leon Liu <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Viscore Technologies Inc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=message-body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><a href="http://www.viscore.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#006FA6;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>http://www.viscore.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>