[BBLISA] Nebula is dead ; long live ... what?

[Patrick Cable]

That's interesting -- I always was fascinated by Nebula but their sales
model always kinda bothered me. I have to buy *your* controller? Big ol'
meh.

I've been pretty thrilled with Piston Cloud. Their story for upgrading
OpenStack seems to actually work/make sense, along with HA. I've had a good
experience with their support. Some of the computing platform stuff they're
working on internally is pretty neat too, I think more of that will be
coming out in the next few months from them.

We've encountered some bugs in our deployment related to NIC firmware and
how they do provisioning. They are fixing them, but I was kinda hoping they
would be able to release more often. Can't have it all I suppose though :)

-pc


On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Dave Goldberg <david.goldberg6 at verizon.net>
wrote:

> A couple years ago we purchased an openstack appliance from Nebula systems
> (www.nebula.com).  Yesterday they went out of business.  The system works
> fairly well and we complemented it with decent servers. It was never
> intended to be a production service but has, and will continue, to serve us
> well as a sandbox for staff to learn about openstack as well as to develop
> virtual infrastructures that might eventually be applied in AWS without
> having to spend scarce project dollars on so much trial and error.  The
> question is what's next? Eventually the Nebula box, which I believe is
> still running the Grizzly version, will no longer be acceptable as users
> demand newer capabilities, and that's being pretty optimistic about the
> hardware. My own experience building an openstack cluster from scratch
> using the components from the CentOS and Fedora repos was successful but
> not something I could ever hand over to the sustainment team.  I'm aware
> that a number vendors are offering more supportable
>  software based packaging of openstack components.  As we start digging
> into that market, I would be grateful for any recommendations, positive or
> negative.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Dave Goldberg
> david.goldberg6 at verizon.net
>
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