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 good Python
• open source and it appears that they will be following an open development model
• have stubbed out all components for testing

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
• Requires use of euca2ools, which are tainted.