 Let's talk about Zen server here more specifically Zen Orchestra the open source project and what's going on I like that they did this. This is pretty exciting So you have the folks over at Zen Orchestra, and I love their product. We use it to manage our Zen server And it's great And we have what the video I did a couple weeks ago about Zen server 7.3 and the New features that they took away granted. Yes, we heard a little bit of feedback from Zen But when I see results, I'll report some results for now We got feedback that they seen our video and they're aware of the concerns of the community Zen Orchestra is aware of the concerns of the community as well. So they did this and this is great It's in the early stages, and this is xcp-ng.github.io I'll leave links below in the description as always, but this is a Zen cloud platform. So Let's go back a little bit. So you had the Zen cloud platform was the free Equivalent of Zen server before the last one was open source and was largely shut down and since the release of 7.3 Moved a lot of free features. We need a community solution again. So then Well xcp-ng is now the logical successor. Who's doing this unlike the original xcp The project is not backed by Citrix See that was the previous one was all backed by Citrix and Citrix took it over and they did good with for a while And well the 7.3 looks like they may be changing the way they want to do things That's the beauty of open source fork it So unlike the original xcp product not backed by Citrix is gonna be a hundred percent community project We have the contributors which from the Zen Orchestra project Oliver Lambert Then we have John else Nick Nick Couchman John sands Michael Ago want to join us ask I'm going to mention that I'll help do documentation as best I can in video form I don't know if I can commit to a lot of writing, but I'm more than willing to help if not I'll throw money at this The main goal is being able to enjoy Zen server XAPI features with real community-backed solution not one company dependent so it should be and Compatible the Zen server compatible with the open source management like well, of course Zen Orchestra because who doesn't want to manage Their VMs from a web browser. So this is pretty exciting. They actually Like so leave the links below and all here. They're hoping for a estimate release date of second quarter of 2018 They have some cost estimates and things like that and I'm I'm excited I'm gonna be keeping an eye on a project and maybe doing what I can to help right now I can help by spreading some enthusiasm for it. So I'm definitely excited about this and I'm hoping You know ZFS driver Adding a narrative couple other ideas that they want to do S3 compatible driver that could be interesting better compression. Yeah that for sure So I I'm be excited to look at some of the other things that they're gonna do because hey Why not open source it and I know a lot of you are screaming But Tom just do proxmox and I've commented many times I really like Zen because well, it's easy to import export VMs It's easier shuffle them around versus that's a feature that seems to be missing from some of the other one like over It's in a couple are I've looked at it. They are great hypervisors They're good systems, but managing VMs just being able to oh Let me just export this VM to an OVA file and then pop it in a virtual box machine No problem or pop something from virtual box in the Zen Zen does a great job at that. That's one of the reasons I do really like it It's I've done several demos and if people commented while that's really easy to manage. Yes, that's something to do a good job They they're open source. They make it easy for me to manage the virtual machines That's two important things to make you know make it very So to speak user-friendly not that I think user-friendly is a term We want to say for hypervisor But easy to manage is very important and easy to export and back up the virtual machines But it'll be keep an eye on this project. I'll be tweeting about it and interacting with these people as And keeping you guys up to date as more things come out on this Because you know instead of moving over to the 7.3 where I lose features I currently have in 7.2. I Might be moving everything over this and because they're gonna be their plan and because they're basing it off the open source Then shouldn't be a problem. I can just take my virtual machines Load them up on the other one and still keep using Zen Orchestra like I do already To keep the project going and keep everything up to date on my servers. All right Thanks for watching like to kind of here like subscribe But I'm excited about this and hopefully you are too and if you're someone that can help code or do some work inside of here They they're asking for help projects just getting started get on the ground floor or something big here Thanks guys and gales and everyone