From VMware to XCP-ng

jbamford

@jasonnix Depends what the requirement are, extras like vSAN will require licensing but Type 1 Hypervisors are all like this tbh. Personally when it comes to shared to storage I would either recommend using iSCSI or NFS than vSAN only because you would require high speed networking. Performance. In my testing between ESXi and XCP-ng there aren’t many differences but then again it all depends on the hardware that is being used. I’ve tested on R710s, R620s, R630s and all performed quite well.

Security. That is all down to the Technician that has deployed it, I wouldn’t expose it to the Public for sure.

jasonnix

Hi @planedrop,
1- Can XCP-ng communicate with storage devices like QNAP or EMC?

2- Is Xen Hypervisor more secure than VMkernel?

3- In VMware, it is possible to create complex networks with vSwitch. Is XCP-ng capable of such things?

jasonnix

Hi @jbamford,
So XCP-ng does not currently have some features like vSAN!

jbamford

@jasonnix Yes XCP-ng has vSAN look here https://xcp-ng.org/docs/storage.html#storage-types it is called XOSAN.

XCP-ng will work fine with EMC & QNAP. I am using two EMC iSCSI SANs with my 3 node Cluster.

john.c

@jasonnix On top of this it can also utilise the NFS and SMB protocols. You can thus choose from iSCSI, NFS or SMB which ever is right for the migration deployment.

planedrop

@jasonnix

Yes, it can connect to many different kinds of network storage devices, just depends on how the share is exposed, but it'll do NFS, iSCSI, and SMB.
I would say so, I'm not some security expert (at least not at a programming/evaluating hypervisor level) but it's certainly a simpler system.
Well, depends how complex you are asking, there is virtual networking within XCP-ng.