<s>
Ganeti	B-Language
is	O
a	O
virtual	O
machine	O
cluster	O
management	O
tool	O
originally	O
developed	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
The	O
solution	B-Application
stack	I-Application
uses	O
either	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
,	O
KVM	B-Application
,	O
or	O
LXC	B-Application
as	O
the	O
virtualization	O
platform	O
,	O
LVM	B-Application
for	O
disk	O
management	O
,	O
and	O
optionally	O
DRBD	B-Application
for	O
disk	O
replication	O
across	O
physical	O
hosts	O
or	O
shared	O
storage	O
for	O
external	O
replication	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
2007	O
Ganeti	B-Language
is	O
developed	O
and	O
released	O
as	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
software	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
Originally	O
subject	O
to	O
the	O
requirements	O
of	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
(	O
GPL	B-License
)	O
version	O
2	O
,	O
the	O
license	O
was	O
changed	O
to	O
the	O
2-clause	O
BSD	B-Operating_System
license	I-Operating_System
in	O
version	O
2.11.6	O
,	O
released	O
September	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ganeti	B-Language
acts	O
as	O
a	O
convenient	O
wrapper	O
around	O
existing	O
hypervisors	B-Operating_System
for	O
system	O
administrators	O
to	O
set	O
up	O
a	O
cluster	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
used	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
for	O
some	O
of	O
its	O
computing	O
infrastructure	O
and	O
also	O
by	O
the	B-Operating_System
Linux	I-Operating_System
Foundation	I-Operating_System
(	O
formerly	O
Open	O
Source	O
Development	O
Labs	O
)	O
for	O
hosting	O
open	O
source	O
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
contrast	O
to	O
cloud	O
solutions	O
designed	O
for	O
many	O
ephemeral	O
VMs	O
,	O
Ganeti	B-Language
focuses	O
on	O
long-lived	O
,	O
persistent	O
VMs	O
suitable	O
for	O
workloads	O
that	O
do	O
n't	O
have	O
built-in	O
redundancy	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
International	O
Ganeti	B-Language
Conference	O
,	O
was	O
held	O
in	O
Greece	O
from	O
3rd	O
till	O
5	O
September	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
University	O
(	O
in	O
Portland	O
,	O
OR	O
,	O
in	O
September	O
2014	O
)	O
and	O
Google	B-Application
Prague	O
(	O
in	O
Prague	O
,	O
Czech	O
Republic	O
,	O
in	O
September	O
2015	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
fourth	O
conference	O
took	O
place	O
at	O
Google	B-Application
's	I-Application
Dublin	O
office	O
,	O
in	O
September	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
