I use Leap as a desktop operating system in my office. I use it primarily for virtualization now, in all of my smaller customer sites, and internally in my new business. I've transitioned away from XEN in favor of KVM, which I've found to be a very stable platform.
I'm now looking into High Availability using Pacemaker, DRBD, LVM, and KVM to form HA Virtualization clusters. Thus far, I'm pleased with the results.
Leap has provided me with the ability to offer what I consider "Enterprise" class server O/S platforms to my smaller customers who are looking to improve their competitive stances without breaking the bank.
When it was first pitched to me, I was told to think of it as the open-source version of SLES, a bridge between their Enterprise O/S and their cutting-edge platform, Tumbleweed. The benefit it offered was being put through its tested release process, similar to SLES, which basically inferred I was receiving a stable, open-source version of a very powerful and fully supported server-class operating system. I surmised that issues with the O/S would be very few, and anything that I might encounter may already be receiving attention on the SLES side.
Being a big fan of SLES already, I realized how many more doors would be opened for opportunities to offer this platform to smaller SMBs who were looking to venture into virtualization, as well as others who were completely unaware of Virtualization, and the benefits this feature offers. With this in mind, I took a "Leap" of faith and tried it out. I was NOT disappointed, and I'm now a very big fan of Leap!
I have now built my first HA cluster using Pacemaker, DRBD, Clustered LVM, and KVM to host multiple guests in a fully redundant environment, similar to my past work in SLES, and the transition was seamless! I'm very impressed with what I can do with this operating system.
