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06-11-2011, 05:57 AM #1Newbie
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OnApp? Are you using it?
OnApp is definitely an eye-catching solution to putting your services in "the cloud" so I'm just curious how many people are actually using OnApp as a solution to providing cloud web hosting and what they dis/like about it.
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06-11-2011, 11:01 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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06-11-2011, 11:16 AM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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We have a cloud in production and we like it. Here are a few things to keep in mind if you are comparing this to an enterprise solution:
* No hot storage migration
* HA is managed by the control system, so you better have a good control system, or one that is hosted on another enterprise solution like vmware
* The product is still a little green in our opinion. Installation has to happen by OnApp
* Bug fixes are usually provided directly by their developers SSHing in and editing .rb files to fix the issue, nothing wrong here but usually companies provide patch rollups etc
I think its a great product, it needs to mature for around another year IMO but again, just my 2c.=> • Admo.net Managed Hosting •
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06-11-2011, 12:07 PM #4The Guru!
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We are using OnApp from its very early stage and very happy with it. Support is very fast. can't ask for more. The product has a big future ahead.
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06-11-2011, 01:05 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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06-11-2011, 04:10 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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True, it used to be pretty hard to install OnApp, so we preferred to do the install (for free though) to make sure everything was dandy. After 2.1 gold it's just an RPM and a bit, so we are comfortable letting clients do their own installs.
Yup, we've got 3 major things on the way in 2011...
- vmware
- ISO mounts
- IPv6 support
Honestly, I am not proud that these features are not out yet, but we've had so many client requests on other stuff, like the horizontal/vertical autoscaling and the loadblanancer.org integration that we've kept pushing it again and again...We are getting there though.
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06-11-2011, 04:21 PM #7The Guru!
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06-11-2011, 04:39 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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I think, when you bring in vmware support, you will gain a whole new audience for the product - the bigger companies with an already established vmware infrastructure.. Could be very nice for OnApp
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06-11-2011, 05:25 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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we've got a handful of clients running it already. The largest being GMOcloud.com. It will be 3-4 weeks before we make a full release.
Yup, I hear ya. OnApp is build for hosters though. I am not trying to be a player in the enterprise scene. Even though we've got a bunch of clients using OnApp outside of the hosting scene - our focus will remain within this industry. And I think for service providers, the hypervisor will be less important than it is now.
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06-11-2011, 06:29 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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06-12-2011, 12:58 AM #11Disabled
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We have been following OnApp for awhile, and we have a division just starting up with the OnApp software, nothing live in production for clients yet but just testing out the whole interface and the setups of it and all, it's quite a nice solution so far.
I would love for it to support vmware, soon as it does we will be having placed as our main system for our vmware brand, and having it as our main panel and all.
For some reason I thought OnApp already supported IPv6? I hope there's no more delay's and push back's on getting the update's out, I know I'm not on the team that's handling on the onapp software at the moment for our company, but I know that would be a big push back for us if there's no IPv6 support on us releasing it live production.
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06-12-2011, 08:22 PM #12Web Hosting Evangelist
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Personally, I don't think VMWare is that great as a hypervisor. The amount or resources it consumes compared to Xen is just crazy.
From my testing at lease I'm not impressed with it. I don't mean that in a negative way if that makes sense. Xen base in my opinion is just more efficient, and VMWare shouldn't be a huge "tipping" point by supporting it.█ Michael Wallace - michael@innoscale.net
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06-12-2011, 10:46 PM #13Web Hosting Guru
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06-13-2011, 09:08 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Storage migration is a biggie, that's a big plus for vmware setups, especially if you are thin provisioning disk.
Having the ability to hot migrate virtual disks to other connected storage arrays is a massive plus.
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06-14-2011, 06:42 AM #18Junior Guru
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For the record, I / We love onapp.
The team, the support, the innovation, the insight into the hosting industry - born from years of hard core experience - all add up to a rock solid option for hosters - the ONLY option in my humble opinion if you want to offer cloud IAAS.
Save yourself pain and don't shop around - get onapp!____________________________________________
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06-15-2011, 02:05 PM #19Web Hosting Evangelist
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There is a fine line between benefits, and resource consumption.
yeah it maybe nice to be able to drive anywhere in town in a monster truck. But 1 mpg isn't practical.
Keep it balanced, and keep it feature rich. I mean that is a good function, We were seeing almost 2 times resources allotments to get the same effect with Xen based hypervisor.█ Michael Wallace - michael@innoscale.net
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I've done a decent amount of work for a company that heavily utilizes OnApp. I've gotten to leverage the platform some and I think it's a pretty good piece of software. The company also likes it alot as well. Their support is responsive and top notch from what I've seen.
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06-15-2011, 02:29 PM #21Web Hosting Evangelist
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Its not a bad platform. when we had to make a choice it was pretty limiting. It's grown nicely tho. After seeing other companies consistantly have SAN's problems. I think a major improvement for OnApp would be to offer a way to do redundant local storage. instead of requiring a SAN's unit.
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06-15-2011, 02:32 PM #22Junior Guru
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We're waiting on our hardware to arrive so we can finally get OnApp installed (we're using it for b2b clients, not consumer hosting e.t.c), looks like one hell of a product ditlev .
I do things. - Consumer and b2b IT solutions.
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06-15-2011, 03:06 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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Does anyone have any experience with Xen vs KVM on an OnAPP setup? Which one runs better on an OnAPP cloud?
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06-15-2011, 03:08 PM #24Junior Guru
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I think all/any of the SAN related issues you've noticed are SAN / Architecture choices - not OnApp.
We run it with redundant NetApp clusters and havent had a blip in 27+ months.____________________________________________
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06-15-2011, 03:24 PM #25Web Hosting Evangelist
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Your right, It is the SAN's unit. 3Par Units, HP Units, etc etc.
I just think next step for OnApp would be to have a local disk setup opposed to requiring a SAN's unit to maintain HA.
I have just never seen very high reliability from a single san's unit. Some of the units our customers use are 150k to 750,000 dollars. Maybe they didnt spend enough? hehe.█ Michael Wallace - michael@innoscale.net
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