[ubuntu-cloud] Generell questions about technical details

[John M. Pugh]

Mathias Tauber wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> at the moment we are running mostly VMware ESXi Servers and are very 
> interested in testing and maybe migrating to UCE. Sure, at first we will 
> evaluate UCE but in some point we are missing more technical information 
> about UCE.

I'm going to make a bold assumption and hope you are referring to Ubuntu 
Enterprise Cloud (UEC).

> 
> We have questions like:
> 
> - which guest-OS is supported
While official support for Ubuntu is assured by Canonical, other Linux 
distributions will run and there have been reports of even Windows 
running on UEC.

> - which hardware is supported and recommended
Any hardware supported by Ubuntu Server. The one specific requirement is 
that all Node Controllers need virtualization technology extensions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/CDInstall <--that page has 
hardware requirements.

> - is there a kind of live-migration
Not sure what you are looking for here - live migration is a 
virtualization technology - UEC is cloud technology where a "live 
migration" scenario really does not fit inside one availability zone. If 
you are talking about "bursting" which involves scaling out, that is not 
available today, but under discussion at UDS Dallas.

> - how is it scaling
All dependent on hardware - so far we have seen fairly substantial 
scaling reports

> - which NFS/SAN appliances/OS is supported
Anything which supports Ubuntu Server

> Where can I get these details from? Haven't found that yet on the web...
A white paper is forthcoming on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud in 9.10
Today you will find a lot of cloud specific information at 
http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private