Apr
08
2008
Random Cool FOSS I’ve Found
I have been away from system administration for a while. Too long. It seems that the world has evolved nicely. Before reinventing the wheel on some things I’m looking into doing I decided to see what was out there in the same arenas. In the last 5 days I’ve spent a lot of time playing with a lot of tools. These are what I’m liking.
- OpenFiler a really sweet SAN/NAS manager.
- Xen 3.0 is lightyears better than its predecessor. I don’t having it running on VT hardware yet, but soon.
- oVirt has a good handle on distributed datacenter virtual server management
- Cobbler takes the pain out of install-chain management
- Virt-Manager is… ridiculous. I love it. I’ve built doms, cloned doms, moved them around… Stupid cool.
- Con-Virt has only had about an hour of face time with me so far, but it’s essentially Virt-Manager .. engorged. Looks very promising for a TLM solution.
