Xen is a very powerful hypervisor with a talented and diverse developers community. Despite the fact it's almost everywhere (from the Cloud to the embedded world), it can be difficult to set up and manage as a system administrator. General purpose distros have Xen packages, but that's just a start in your Xen journey: you need some tooling and knowledge to have a working and scalable platform. XCP-ng was built to overcome those issues: by bringing Xen to the masses with a fully turnkey distro with Xen as its core. It's the logical sequel to the XCP project, with a community focus from the start. We'll see how it happened, what we did, and what's next. Finally, we'll see the impact of XCP-ng on the Xen Project.

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Bring Xen to the masses
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2. PART I
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WHO WE ARE
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3. Benjamin REIS / R&D developer
VATES
XCP-ng / Xen Orchestra
INTRODUCTION.
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4. Vates.
A COMPANY FOUNDED IN 2012...
...DEVELOPING XEN ORCHESTRA...
...AND XCP-NG HYPERVISOR
French company
By three people, Olivier, Julien and Nithida
With a strong interest in Open Source solution
A web-ui to manage Citrix Hypervisor and XCP-ng
With backup and Cloud features
Open Source Licenses (GPLv2...)
Based on Xen and Citrix Hypervisor
100% Open Source
With a great and active community
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5. CHRONOLOGY.
2003 : Xen project birth, first open source hypervisor
2007 : Xen Source Inc. acquired by Citrix, birth of XenServer
(closed source)
2010 : Citrix strategy focused on virtual desktop
(XenApp/XenDesktop) instead of servers virtualization
2011 : XCP 1.0 (Xen Cloud Platform, Open Source XenServer)
2013 : XenServer become Open (end of XCP). Birth of Xen
Orchestra
2017 (dec.) : Citrix changes it's pricing strategy regarding
XenServer and remove essential features from free XenServer
version. New features are not anymore open source
2018 (janv) : XenServer fork, birth of XCP-ng
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6. ACHIEVEMENTS.
More than 500 monthly contributors on the forum (more than
1000+ accounts and 10K posts)
Important contributions from the community
(Windows Drivers , XCP-ng Center, patches...)
More than 25K unique downloads
An easy process to upgrade from XenServer to XCP-ng
Member of the Xen pre-disclosure list
No license keys, no restricted features
A COMMUNITY & PROJECT SUCCESS
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7. A TECHNICAL
SUCCESS
Bugs correction from XenServer (large disks migration)
A test repository available, tested and validated by the
community for more secure updates
Windows PV Drivers signed (beta)
CloudStack support
zstd compression support (Massive backup improvements)
zfs contribution
...
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8. PART II
BRING XEN TO THE MASSES
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9. CONTRIBUTE
Actively in the code (the reason why we are here)
Collaboration with universities in France (Paris, Grenoble
and Nice)
Investigating opportunities of collaboration with European
Universities and companies (and why not worldwide)
Invest resources, both financial and human in the R&D of XCP-
ng that will also contribute to Xen
By creating a rich ecosystem with partners around the world
(Linbit, UDS...)
TO XEN
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10. HOW WE SEE IT
R&D CONTRIBUTION
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION
Tracks we want to explore: network, compute,
storage and dom0
Collaboration with universities (French in the
first place, then European, and why not
worldwide)
Become the link between research in
universities and industry application
Recruiting in Vates people dedicated to XCP-ng
and Xen
Funding universities thesis (first one in
September)
Sponsoring Xen events (like this one)
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11. COMMUNICATION
XCP-ng is also a showcase for the Xen Project
XCP-ng is turnkey, more XCP-ng adoption also means more
Xen users
We want to join the Linux Foundation as a Xen
subproject/distribution (by the way, we are looking for a
sponsor)
Creating a rich ecosystem within the virtualization industry
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FIREPOWER
By the end of 2019, 6 people working full time on XCP-ng
project
Recruiting people with Xen knowledge
By the end of 2020, 20 people working on XCP-ng (developers,
engineers, contractors...)
LINUX FOUNDATION
Everything is ready for us to join the foundation, we only need
a sponsor!
UPSTREAM
We are contributing to many project (ZFS, XAPI...) and we will
continue to do it.
FORESEEABLE
FUTURE
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13. THANK YOU
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© 2019 Vates
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