1. The Future of XCP
Mike McClurg
Citrix Systems

2. XCP in a nutshell
 Open source distribution of XenServer
 Provides vertical stack for server virtualization
 Distributed as a closed appliance, not as an
installable software package

3. XCP in a nutshell
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4. XCP in a nutshell

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6. Upcoming XCP releases
 XCP 1.1 beta released
 Final should be released end of August
 Mostly bug fixes since XCP 1.0
 Next major release scheduled for November
 Tentatively named XCP 1.5
 Will have Xen 4.1, Linux 2.6.32
 New features: Disaster Recovery, GPU
passthrough, 1TB host memory
 New guest support: Solaris, Ubuntu 10.10, RHEL
6.0

7. Project Kronos
 XCP's XenAPI toolstack, running on Debian
and Ubuntu systems
 Why are we doing this?
 To provide OSS Xen support for OpenStack
 Because it's the right thing to do (and because it's
just really cool)

8. Project Kronos
 New technology
 Cross-pool migration using DRDB
 Support for OpenStack through Project Olympus
 New libxl bindings for xapi

9. Project Kronos Timeline
 Milestone 1
 First release to coincide with Ubuntu 11.10
 Published as Ubuntu PPA and Debian apt repo
 Milestone 2
 Second release to coincide with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
 Will be in Debian unstable and Ubuntu repos
 Follow along with development
 http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XAPI_on_debian

10. Where we're headed
 XCP is XenServer “unstable”
 Tracking unstable hypervisor/kernel
 More open development model
 XenAPI toolstack is more easily consumable
 Supporting the cloud through OpenStack

11. XCP Vision
 XCP is the configuration of choice for clouds
 XCP bridges the gap between OSS Xen and
XenServer/XCP communities
 XCP becomes the Xen Community Platform