Nova
Nova Cloud Review
The purpose of this document is to capture the pluses and minuses of using Nova's code as a part of Cloud servers v2
Plus
- Scalable architecture
- Many months ahead of us
- written in Python
- open source and it appears that they will be following an open development model
Minus
- Closely tied to Eucalyptus' technical decision. i.e. AOE, heavy use of vlans
- Missing large portions of functionality needed by hosting providers, i.e. metrics and billing.
- Only supports AMI's