Google recently announced the first beta release of Ganeti, an open source virtual server management software built on top of Xen and other open source software. Naturally, since I’ve been using VMWare for the last year or so I was curious about Ganeti.

What is Ganeti?

In short, Ganeti is a cluster virtualization platform based on Xen. An “intent to package” or ITP has been filed with Debian which describes Ganeti as “a virtual server cluster management software tool built on top of the Xen virtual machine monitor and other Open Source software. After
setting it up it will provide you with an automated environment to manage highly available virtual machine instances.”

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