Based on our record, Ganeti seems to be a lot more popular than xCAT. While we know about 15 links to Ganeti, we've tracked only 1 mention of xCAT. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
We use ganeti and I'm ridiculously happy with it. When I came on board we were using ganeti for dev/stg and VMWare for production. But the difficulty of monitoring VMWare (we were moving away from SAN to local storage, and doing a RAID array monitor was a PITA) and administering (via Windows GUI, which I had to run via a VM on my Linux workstations), plus the licensing weirdness (clusters of size 5 were a sweet... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Yep, happily using https://ganeti.org/ and KVM live migrations - mirrors across hosts. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
It's more focused on clusters, but you could check out Ganeti. Source: 10 months ago
I've been using CEPH as a backend for Ganeti storage for a long time. It's not as complex as some people like to make it out to be. But just like an distributed redundant storage, you really want to have networking that has closer to the bandwidth of your storage devices in order to make it feel like local storage speeds. Usually means 10Gbe or better. Source: about 1 year ago
Try Ganeti. It can build VM clusters using DRBD or Ceph (or both at the same time if you want). It takes the pain out of managing DRBD. Source: about 1 year ago
xCAT Provides PXE provisions, DHCP, and DNS all integrated into a single database and system. While more complex than other solutions it is very powerful and you will need a dedicated DNS for HPC eventually anyways. Source: over 2 years ago
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