Xen Cloud Platform Roadmap

The Xen Cloud Platform release 0.1 is now available to the Xen.org community as a prospective development solution for the eventual release of XCP 1.0. The proposed roadmap for the 1.0 release is as follows:

VSwitch Integration - first step to enabling multi-tenant network infrastructure, to enable firewall and routing rules to follow VMs as they migrate, and to enable flexible traffic monitoring of virtual ports
Netchannel 2 Integration - improve scalability of xen networking on larger systems and to accelerate inter-VM traffic
SR-IOV Networking - Although Xen support SR-IVO NICs today, configuration requires manual steps. By extending the control strack we can make SR-IOV simply a transparent optimization that is enabled automatically where possible
Booting guests from SR-IOV HBAs
Libvirt bindings
Native support for OVF in the tool stack
Drive DMTF standards for virtualization and cloud
Smart error recovery to minimize impact of hardware errors
Work closely with other projects and vendors to enable web-based mutli-tenant mgmt and provisioning; e.g. Eucalyptus, Enomaly, OpenNebula, etc.
Increased management scalability for dealing with 1,000s of Xen hosts - federation of resource pools
Aggregation of cheap local storage - integrated drdb/parallax
ocfs2 integration

This site is hosted by Citrix