LinuxCon Brazil 2011 | Presentations

XCP: The Art of Open Virtualization for the Enterprise and the Cloud

XCP is a free and open source self-contained virtualization solution for servers, built on top of the Xen hypervisor. It is easily installable in a few minutes from a single image file, yet powerful and scalable enough to be useful to power users, enterprise environments and cloud deployments. Created from the open-source components of XenServer, it supports the virtualization of a range of operating systems, including Linux, Solaris, BSDs and Windows. This talk will introduce XCP and explain its relationship with Xen and Linux. We will quickly demonstrate how to use XCP via the command-line and using opensource graphical interfaces, and describe some interesting features that set XCP apart from other virtualization platforms.

Marcus Granado, Citrix

Marcus Granado works for Citrix in the Xen virtualization engineering group in UK, developing features and improving performance in XenServer. He is an ardent OCaml and functional language enthusiast and excited by the opportunities offered by XCP to create a free and open source Xen ecosystem for users, developers and businesses. He is interested in solving a range of cloud and virtualization problems, including profiling, access control, VM isolation and QoS.