Re: [Xen-devel] RE: XCP Downloading and Xen.org

Re: [Xen-devel] RE: XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:57:25PM -0500, Dustin Henning wrote:
>    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?
> 

Yeah, It should be possible to get XCP to some ftp/http mirrors. 
Does someone have good contacts? 

-- Pasi

> 
> 
> 
>    From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
>    [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: [Xen-devel] RE: XCP Downloading and Xen.org

[Marco Sinhoreli]

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Hello all:

I'm a globo.com staff and we are located in Brazil. We can help with that
 making a mirror in our infrastructure. So, I need know total size data
files and the XCP rsync server  to automatize the between master and mirror.

Cheers

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:57:25PM -0500, Dustin Henning wrote:
> >    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?
> >
>
> Yeah, It should be possible to get XCP to some ftp/http mirrors.
> Does someone have good contacts?
>
> -- Pasi
>
> >
> >
> >
> >    From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
> >    [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
> >
> >
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Xen-devel mailing list
> > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
>
>
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> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>



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Marco Sinhoreli

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

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:25:02 +0200
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:57:25PM -0500, Dustin Henning wrote:
> >    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?
> > 
> 
> Yeah, It should be possible to get XCP to some ftp/http mirrors. 
> Does someone have good contacts? 

<cynical but true mode on>

Turn the maximum transfer rate on the master site way down and you'll
suddenly get mirrors and torrent users.

</cynical>