Xen Not Ready for Prime-time, says Red Hat

daria42 writes "A senior Red Hat executive today maintained the Xen open source virtualisation environment was not yet ready for enterprise use, despite 'unbelievable' customer demand and the fact rival Novell has already started shipping the software."

Comments

what is ready?

[doktorjayd]

i run about 40-50 xen clients on a handful of moderate server hosts.

perfect for dev work. i mean PERFECT

quickly reproducible, adjustable resourcing, and lets me give devs root acces on their own clients.

i presume the redhat dude meant was 'redhat isnt ready to commercially support xen'

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what, read the article? pfft.

The quailfications are clear

[NixLuver]

From TFA:

"We don't feel that XenSource is stable enough to address banking, telco, or any other enterprise customer, so until we are comfortable, we will not release it."

He's talking about environments like the one I work in, where we're expected to deliver a real, honest-to-betsy, 99.999 uptime on our systems. We do sometimes use RHEL in the enterprise for those platforms, but to be fair, it's mostly in RAIC (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Computers) type applications, or non-call-path systems. Many of our call-path-systems are boxes that can lose a processor without the OS going down - or the application running on it. There are some stand-alone Linux products, and they perform well enough, but I understand his reservations in those arenas. We're not talking about fileservers here, folks. But as we move to a more distributed architecture, where uptime is provided by redundancy rather than the 'robustness' of a single system, something like Xen will become more and more feasible for such applications.