Subject: Re: [vserver] VServer related project
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:05:41 +0200

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:21:32PM -0400, Edward Capriolo wrote:
> I have been working on a project for a while. My goal was to design a
> management system that would be a cross between Ensim/VServer Control
> Daemon /and webmin.
> 1) The concept is to put a web management interface ontop of a VServer
> 2) manage all the resources into quotas Processor, Disk, and Memory,
> IPAddreses, etc
> 3) Give users access to above resources to create one or more virtual
> servers without any administrator intervention
> 
> The most difficult tasks were creating and managing IP addresses and
> IPTables automatically. The VServer work was done by adding wrappers
> around the shell commands. In the end, I had a tool that can do all
> the work of creating a vserver including iptables from a web
> interface.
> 
> After I had most of those features working, I decided I wanted to go
> after a multi server implementation :)
> 
> My new goals are to add some features:
> 1) Work on clusters of up to 16 servers with a shared metastore
> 2) Create DRBD partitions and install vservers on them
> 3) Integrate Linux HA for failover of VServers
> 4) Create public template repositories much like all the vmware images out there
> 
> The entire project is going to be open source.
> 
> http://www.jointhegrid.com/jtgweb/

sounds great! will have to check that out

also keep in contact with Daniel, maybe advanced integration
between your project and util-vserver is worth some efford
in the future ...

best,
Herbert

> The 'working' V1 implementation is going to be frozen and put out on
> SVN, while I work on the V2 multi-server version. I have noticed some
> list activity about DRBD and OCF scripts so some people might be
> interested.
> 
> Thanks all