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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/07/2014 09:45 AM, David BERCOT
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<pre wrap="">Hello,
I'm French, I work for the French administration and this is my first
message on this list...
At the moment, we use VMware (vSphere 5.1/5.5, cloud edition) for our
virtualized complex infrastructures.
I've discovered recently that oVirt offers enhanced features, closed to
the ones of VMware. Is the product sufficiently advanced yet ? I don't
know and I hope you'll be able to help me ;-)</pre>
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Welcome David,<br>
<br>
<br>
We find it sufficiently advanced, since 3.5 is nearing release most
of our wishlist has been taken care off ;-)<br>
Check out the case stories like
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ovirt.org/Brussels_Airport_Case_Study">http://www.ovirt.org/Brussels_Airport_Case_Study</a>)<br>
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<pre wrap="">My first question is about hypervisor... In VMware infrastructures, we
use a microkernel since the version 4 (before, it was an hypervisor
based on a RedHat core).
On the oVirt site, I can download ovirt-engine to install it over
Debian/RedHat/CentOS, etc... But it seems to be less optimised because
some ressources are used by the underlying OS...
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Ovirt engine is the management part (like vCenter), there is no need
for it to be that optimized as it's not running VM's itself.<br>
What you're talking about is ovirt node: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ovirt.org/Node">http://www.ovirt.org/Node</a><br>
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Can you explain me differences between this technology and the VMware
one ?</pre>
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A bit outdated:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.siliconloons.com/open-source-cloud-and-virtualization-terminology-for-vmware-users/">http://www.siliconloons.com/open-source-cloud-and-virtualization-terminology-for-vmware-users/</a><br>
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Some more reading:<br>
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Virtual data center management with oVirt 3.4<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/600370/">http://lwn.net/Articles/600370/</a><br>
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Thank you.
David.
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That's my 2c.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Jorick Astrego<br>
Netbulae B.V.<br>
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