[sdnog] help with virtualization configuration

[Samir S. Omer]

Hi Sara

Generally most hypervisors gives you what you asked for assuming you configure your infrastructurecorrectly i.e. setting up shared storage to allow for
VM migration. but what I believe you need to ask yourself for choosing a suitable hypervisor is what is the size of your design? "how many VM you think you will
provision ?" also what virtualization technique you need (Full Virtualization, Hardware Assisted Virtualization, or Paravirtualization) and if it is supported by your hardware.

if you are planing to have cloud platform on top of you infrastructure, you'll need to check for the comparability between the CP and the Hypervisor.

having said that, maybe you can have a look at KVM, Xen, or Citrix.

Regards,
Samir

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sara Alamin" <sara.alamin at sudren.edu.sd>
To: "sdnog" <sdnog at lists.sdnog.sd>
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 11:21:54 AM
Subject: [sdnog] help with virtualization configuration

Hello SdNOG community,
Hope you had a good time at SdNOG-2 meeting

I want to ask about one of the topic that has been discussed at the meeting : virtualization.

I have 5 server with 1T storage for each , and I want to install a hypervisor software that gives me these features :
- can manage these server from one administrator console
- if I faced any problem  can easily migrate the VMs form one server to other .
- easily way to have a backup for the virtual machines that will be created.

My questions are :
- what is the suitable hypervisor software? (can I find open source software?) 
- do I need a specific configuration before I install the hypervisor software? 

sorry  but I don't have enough experience with virtualization so if there is any one can share docs or videos  that may help :)

Thanks in advance.
--Sara Alamin--
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