XCP Downloading and Xen.org

XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Stephen Spector]

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Xen Community:

As you are aware, the Xen Cloud Platform has been available for download since last November and is becoming a very successful release for Xen.org. In fact, we are seeing substantial network  traffic for this solution as we had 26 TB of data from XCP downloads in the past 4 weeks. Of course, this amount of traffic is forcing a re-examination of our co-location agreements as we are moving toward the limit of our monthly bandwidth and may face substantial increases in costs as XCP continues to find new users.

I have a proposal to move the XCP iso images to bittorrent for downloads, thereby reducing the bandwidth pressure on the Xen.org website. I am looking for community feedback on this idea and look forward to your thoughts.

Thank you.

Stephen Spector

Xen.org Community Manager
T: (772) 621-5062 | F: (772) 365-0338 | M: (954) 854-4257
stephen.spector@xen.org
http://blog.xen.org | @xen_com_mgr


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Re: XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Javier Guerra]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Stephen Spector
<stephen.spector@citrix.com> wrote:
> I have a proposal to move the XCP iso images to bittorrent for downloads

+1

-- 
Javier

RE: [Xen-users] XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Dustin Henning]

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I assume adding them to bittorrent is a good idea, as a lot of users will
probably use a torrent program to get them, lessening the impact on the
project's bandwidth.  However, that shouldn't be the only way to get the
product.  Fedora and CentOS both have CD ISO and DVD ISO torrents, many
mirrors have CD ISOs, a few have the DVD ISOs as well.  Is it possible to
get XCP added to some mirrors as well?

                Dustin

 

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Subject: [Xen-users] XCP Downloading and Xen.org

 

Xen Community:

 

As you are aware, the Xen Cloud Platform has been available for download
since last November and is becoming a very successful release for Xen.org.
In fact, we are seeing substantial network  traffic for this solution as we
had 26 TB of data from XCP downloads in the past 4 weeks. Of course, this
amount of traffic is forcing a re-examination of our co-location agreements
as we are moving toward the limit of our monthly bandwidth and may face
substantial increases in costs as XCP continues to find new users.

 

I have a proposal to move the XCP iso images to bittorrent for downloads,
thereby reducing the bandwidth pressure on the Xen.org website. I am looking
for community feedback on this idea and look forward to your thoughts. 

 

Thank you.

 

Stephen Spector

 

Xen.org Community Manager

T: (772) 621-5062 | F: (772) 365-0338 | M: (954) 854-4257

stephen.spector-LM2mM/qkH7s@public.gmane.org 

http://blog.xen.org | @xen_com_mgr

 


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Re: XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Magnus Therning]

On 11/02/10 19:29, Stephen Spector wrote:
> Xen Community:
>
> As you are aware, the Xen Cloud Platform has been available for download
> since last November and is becoming a very successful release for
> Xen.org. In fact, we are seeing substantial network traffic for this
> solution as we had 26 TB of data from XCP downloads in the past 4 weeks.
> Of course, this amount of traffic is forcing a re-examination of our
> co-location agreements as we are moving toward the limit of our monthly
> bandwidth and may face substantial increases in costs as XCP continues
> to find new users.
>
> I have a proposal to move the XCP iso images to bittorrent for
> downloads, thereby reducing the bandwidth pressure on the Xen.org
> website. I am looking for community feedback on this idea and look
> forward to your thoughts.

AFAIK it's fairly common for companies to put restrictions on use of p2p 
protocols like bittorrent.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, not much is gained by this move if xen.org turns 
out the be the only usable seed :-)

I suspect what would really be needed are a few mirrors.

Cheers,
M

-- 
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in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs.
      -- Flon's Axiom

RE: XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Stephen Spector]

> AFAIK it's fairly common for companies to put restrictions on use of p2p 
> protocols like bittorrent.

> Also, if I'm not mistaken, not much is gained by this move if xen.org turns 
> out the be the only usable seed :-)

> I suspect what would really be needed are a few mirrors.

Update - I am currently in the process of setting up three mirror sites to handle XCP traffic. One site is in Brazil, another in Europe, and the third will be at various global sites. I should have them up and running early next week or later today depending on firewall settings. 

Thanks.

Stephen Spector

 

RE: [Xen-users] XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Dustin Henning]

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I assume adding them to bittorrent is a good idea, as a lot of users will
probably use a torrent program to get them, lessening the impact on the
project's bandwidth.  However, that shouldn't be the only way to get the
product.  Fedora and CentOS both have CD ISO and DVD ISO torrents, many
mirrors have CD ISOs, a few have the DVD ISOs as well.  Is it possible to
get XCP added to some mirrors as well?

                Dustin

 

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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Spector
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 14:29
To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com;
xen-api@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-users] XCP Downloading and Xen.org

 

Xen Community:

 

As you are aware, the Xen Cloud Platform has been available for download
since last November and is becoming a very successful release for Xen.org.
In fact, we are seeing substantial network  traffic for this solution as we
had 26 TB of data from XCP downloads in the past 4 weeks. Of course, this
amount of traffic is forcing a re-examination of our co-location agreements
as we are moving toward the limit of our monthly bandwidth and may face
substantial increases in costs as XCP continues to find new users.

 

I have a proposal to move the XCP iso images to bittorrent for downloads,
thereby reducing the bandwidth pressure on the Xen.org website. I am looking
for community feedback on this idea and look forward to your thoughts. 

 

Thank you.

 

Stephen Spector

 

Xen.org Community Manager

T: (772) 621-5062 | F: (772) 365-0338 | M: (954) 854-4257

stephen.spector@xen.org 

http://blog.xen.org | @xen_com_mgr

 


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RE: XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Dustin Henning]

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I assume adding them to bittorrent is a good idea, as a lot of users will
probably use a torrent program to get them, lessening the impact on the
project's bandwidth.  However, that shouldn't be the only way to get the
product.  Fedora and CentOS both have CD ISO and DVD ISO torrents, many
mirrors have CD ISOs, a few have the DVD ISOs as well.  Is it possible to
get XCP added to some mirrors as well?

                Dustin

 

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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Spector
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 14:29
To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com;
xen-api@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-users] XCP Downloading and Xen.org

 

Xen Community:

 

As you are aware, the Xen Cloud Platform has been available for download
since last November and is becoming a very successful release for Xen.org.
In fact, we are seeing substantial network  traffic for this solution as we
had 26 TB of data from XCP downloads in the past 4 weeks. Of course, this
amount of traffic is forcing a re-examination of our co-location agreements
as we are moving toward the limit of our monthly bandwidth and may face
substantial increases in costs as XCP continues to find new users.

 

I have a proposal to move the XCP iso images to bittorrent for downloads,
thereby reducing the bandwidth pressure on the Xen.org website. I am looking
for community feedback on this idea and look forward to your thoughts. 

 

Thank you.

 

Stephen Spector

 

Xen.org Community Manager

T: (772) 621-5062 | F: (772) 365-0338 | M: (954) 854-4257

stephen.spector@xen.org 

http://blog.xen.org | @xen_com_mgr

 


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