Taking bhyve step forward enterprise grade

[Jim Thompson]

> On Mar 19, 2016, at 10:55 AM, John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 19, 2016, at 8:12 AM, Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> hi,
>> are there ongoing job on taking bhyve further steps toward enterprise scale
>> like:
>> 1. high availability, rules on vms (like affinity rules in vmware: eg an
>> app vm and sql vm go together...), vmotion...
>> 2. network virtualization like vmware nsx...
> 
> The wiki pages probably the best place for general info on bhyve current and planned features: https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve
> 
> Live migration is a planned feature. HA rules and other automation and orchestration are probably beyond the scope of what bhyve itself is aiming to achieve, though such features could easily be provided by additional scripts and tools.
> 
> What specifically are you after in terms of network virtualization? Again, bhyve itself isn't intended to be a giant umbrella but FreeBSD does support many networking features which could support network virtualization (and which work fine with bhyve).

VALE is built-in to FreeBSD, and with the new netmap back-end for bhyve, serves as a good ‘base’ for a vswitch.

Jim