I recently discovered that Citrix has opensourced XenServer, and that XCP (which we have been using) is more or less now legacy and needless.
While looking at rebuilding our systems on XenServer 6.2, I have just realized that oracle VM is actually built atop Xen too, but has so much more going for it in terms of application level integration/configuration and ready templates for practically all of Oracle's enterprise applications. Now, this is most attractive and I am swayed to go with it.
My only concern at this point is whether Oracle VM allows the xen xe commands for CLI administration. I will eventually work this out, but I am in a hurry to rig up the systems, and so I am asking in the hope that someone can save me sometime in researching this for myself.
xe
commands are from the XAPI/XE Toolstack, and Oracle VM does not ship with this toolstack. Oracle VM uses the default Xen toolstack, thexl
andxm
commands.Personally I don't thing that's a good thing, Xen can run with some different toolstacks, the Default one, XAPI/XE and LibVirt, so if you already have knowledge of the XAPI/XE Toolstack stay with XenServer.
Here's a picture showing some quick differences:
The OpenSource XenServer is promising and the development is going very well.