Open Stack

hossein zabolzadeh wrote:
>I want to fully virtualize my datacenter. I don't want cloud. I don't want to deliver
>public cloud. I have several legacy appliacation that I want to run all of them on
>virtualized environment. I want to leverage the virtualization technology to improve
>my datacenter consolidation, ease of meintenace, ease of management with
>increase in capacity.


If you don’t want cloud and don’t need cloud then don’t look at CloudStack or OpenStack. There’s no need to be buzzword compliant. Just use ESXi (with or without vCenter), or use KVM or Xen directly. After you’ve virtualized your infrastructure either one of two things will happen:

1) You’ll realize that you really did want cloud, but now you’ll understand why and you won’t just be doing it for buzzword’s sake

or

2) You’ll be perfectly happy because you were actually right that all you wanted was to virtualize a few servers. You’re done and you didn’t make yourself miserable by implementing something you really didn’t want or need

Not everybody needs a cloud platform. Certainly not everybody needs to build their own cloud platform internal to their company. If you’re IT needs are big enough and rapidly changing enough to actually need cloud then you wouldn’t be posting to an OpenStack mailing list that “I don’t want cloud” unless of course you don’t actually know your IT needs well enough. And if you don’t know your IT needs well enough to understand on a technical basis why you need OpenStack (or CloudStack or vCloud or etc) then you need to go back and figure out your own IT needs before proceeding further.