Open Stack

I'm sorry if this sounds rude, but I've been seeing your emails come
in, and I've read your website, and I still have 0% clue about what
PetiteCloud is.

On 12 February 2014 21:56, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> PetiteCloud is a 100% Free Open Source and Open Knowledge bare metal capable
> Cloud Foundation Layer for Unix-like operating systems. It has the following
> features:

What is a Cloud Foundation Layer? Whats the relevance of OK here (I
presume you mean http://okfn.org/ ?).

>     * Support for bhyve (FreeBSD only) and QEMU
>     * Any x86 OS as a guest (FreeBSD and Linux via bhyve or QEMU; all others
> via QEMU only) and all supported software (including running OpenStack on
> VM's)
>     * Install, import, start, stop and reboot instances safely (guest OS
> needs to be controlled independently)
>     * Clone, backup/export, delete stopped instances 100% safely

So far it sounds like a hypervisor management layer - which is what Nova is.

>     * Keep track of all your instances on one screen

I think you'll need a very big screen eventually :)

>     * All transactions that change instance state are password protected at
> all critical stages
>     * Advanced options:
>         * Ability to use/make bootable bare metal disks for backing stores
>         * Multiple NIC's and disks
>         * User settable (vs. auto assigned) backing store locations

if backing store == virtual disk, this sounds fairly straight forward,
though 'bootable bare metal disks' is certainly an attention grabbing
statement for a hypervisor.

>     * A growing number of general purpose and specialized
> instances/applications are available for PetiteCloud
>
> We would like to know if people a) find this useful and b) does it live up
> to it's claims for a wide variety of open stack installs

I'm not clear what its claims are w.r.t. OpenStack. Is it a testing
/development tool like
https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-dev/devstack ? Is it a
deployment tool like
https://git.openstack.irg/cgit/openstack/tripleo-incubator? Is it a
profiling tool like https://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/rally?

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Converged Cloud