Xen Project User Survey

We are planning a Xen Project User Survey. This page is a scratch pad to outline the questions in the survey, such that everyone can see what we are planning to cover. Feel free to use the {{Comment}} template to comment on questions: simply use {{comment|~~~~}} your comment and a comment using your user ID will automatically be added.

Patterns and Platforms

I believe we have a survey monkey account. Some of the questions require either a way of ranking features and/or system properties or awarding a number of limited points to features/system properties/etc, as otherwise we will not get good data.

There are two ways of doing this

• Rating Scale : the issue here is that people are encouraged to rate everything highly and that thus we don't get good date
• Ranking Questions : this looks ideal, but it is not clear what happens with the default order. There is a risk that people will just stick with the default, which could skew the default
• Quotas : It is not exactly clear how these work from the documentation and what the user experience is like

Survey

Preamble

The Xen Project is conducting its first annual user survey. This data could be used as part of an upcoming report on trends within the Xen Project, to prioritize feature development and may help influence the future direction of the project. We would appreciate your help in taking five minutes to share your experiences with us.

 Lars.kurth 10:43, 30 April 2014 (UTC) Need to test the survey for length and update the item above

If you would like to be entered in our drawing for one of two $500 Amazon.com gift cards, please enter your email address at the end of the survey.

 Lars.kurth 10:43, 30 April 2014 (UTC) Need to get funding for any prices

Use of Virtualization and Cloud

In the last 12 months, what best describes your organization's actions around server expansion (including physical or virtualized server or cloud server instances)?

Matrix:

• Questions: Linux, Windows, Unix, Other OS
• Answers: Added servers, Decreased servers, Neither added nor decreased servers, Not sure

How would you rate your organization’s progress toward cloud adoption?

How would you rate your organization’s progress toward cloud adoption?

• We have no plans to move to the cloud
• We have started evaluating our options for moving into the cloud
• We have started moving to the cloud but have a long way to go
• We have moved some workloads to the cloud and are satisfied with our current situation
• We have moved some workloads to the cloud and plan to do more
• Not sure
• Comments:

What is your current cloud model?

What is your current cloud model?

• Mostly private cloud
• Mostly public cloud
• Hybrid cloud
• We are not in the cloud
• Not sure

What workloads are you currently running on within a VM (select all that apply)?

Matrix:

• Questions: Application and Web Servers, Development Environments / Tools / Languages, Relational / Enterprise Databases, Email Systems, Desktop Productivity Applications, Systems Management, Standalone, Single-user Databases, CRM, ERP, Other
• Answers: Presently Running, Plan to Run, Not Planning to Run

What best describes your work with the following open source Virtualization solutions in the next 12 months?

Matrix:

• Questions: Containers, KVM, Xen Project, Other
• Answers: Not Aware Of, Evaluating, Plan to Deploy, In Deployment, Don’t Plan to Deploy, Don’t Know

What best characterizes your perception of Xen Project software?

What best characterizes your perception of Xen Project software?

• Improving
• Staying the same
• Declining
• Comments:

Use of Xen Project

• I neither use Xen Project software or participate in the Xen Project community : skip this section

What Xen Project Software (TODO)

To Do: Versions of Xen, Mirage OS, XCP, ...

Dom 0 Operating System (TODO)

To Do: List versions of Dom 0 capable kernels (including commercial products)

Dom U Operating System (TODO)

To Do: Information about Dom U

System Characteristics (TODO)

To Do: A question about which system characteristics are important (this is tricky from a design perspective)

Features (TODO)

To Do: A question about which features are known/used/important (this is tricky from a design perspective)

3rd party software (TODO)

To Do: A question about which 3rd party software integrations are known/used/important (this is tricky from a design perspective)

How do you participate in the Xen Project community?

How do you participate in the Xen Project community?

• Actively contribute code
• Test and submit bugs
• Participate in Xen Project activities (events, xenproject.org, attend talks, newsletters, etc)
• We just work with our vendors
• No active participation, but would like to participate more
• No active participation
• Other (please specify)

Future Direction of Xen Project

• I do not plan to use Xen Project software or participate in the Xen Project community : skip this section

General Information

This is a subset of questions from 2014 Enterprise Linux Survey and will help correlate the information into the bigger picture

Which of the following best describes your job title?

Which of the following best describes your job title?

• IT/IS staff
• Director/manager, IT operations
• Director/manager, network systems
• Director/manager, other IT
• CIO
• Consultant
• Vice president, IT or infrastructure
• Line-of-business management
• Security staff
• CEO/president
• Developer
• Other (please specify)

Approximately how many employees are in your organization?

Approximately how many employees are in your organization?

• Not working for an organization
• Fewer than 50
• 50-99
• 100-499
• 500-999
• 1,000-4,999
• 5,000-9,999
• 10,000 or more
• Don't know/decline to say

What is your organization's primary industry?

What is your organization's primary industry?

• Construction/engineering
• Consulting and business services
• Education
• Electronics
• Financial services
• Food/beverage
• Government
• Healthcare/medical
• Hospitality/travel
• IT vendors
• Manufacturing/industrial, non-computer
• Media/entertainment
• Mobile equipment manufacturer
• Non-profit
• Retail/e-commerce
• Telecommunications/ISPs
• Utilities
• Conglomerate (multiple industries under one Company)
• Other (please specify)

Where are you located?

Where are you located?

• Africa
• Asia
• Australia / New Zealand
• Europe
• Japan
• Middle East
• Mexico and Central America
• South America
• United States and Canada
• Other (please specify)