Thanks Jason! My summary of this (especially the free-text answers at the end) is: * 30% response rate is pretty good! Not sure how representative it is. * Primarily people familiar with Red Hat's virtualization * Attendees are interested in what's coming on the horizon, and when certain features will be available in oVirt and RHEV * Primarily users, half of respondents also indicated either integrator or developer * Many people mentioned wanting to learn more about specific features or about the project - so hands-on or demo sessions will be important * oVirt in the industry - the relationship & positioning relative to openstack and competitors came up often Thanks, Dave. On 10/02/2012 06:11 PM, Jason Brooks wrote:

Hi Everyone --

On Sept 20th, I sent a message to the list of registered attendees of the oVirt Bangalore Workshop with a link to a brief Pre-Event survey.

We received 16 responses out of about 52 people mailed.

The Questions:

How Familiar Are You With:

(scale of 1-5, 5 is most familiar -- results averaged)

KVM: 2.8 oVirt: 2.1 RHEV: 2.6 vSphere: 1.8 XenServer: 1.3 Hyper-V: 1.3

What is your interest in the oVirt Workshop:

(check all that apply, # of people who expressed each)

Use oVirt: 15 Integrate w/ oVirt: 7 Develop Features for oVirt: 9 Contribute in some other way: 8

What do you hope to get out of the workshop?

(free text field)

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Latest on the oVirt 3.1 recently released. Also latest on what the future direction of oVirt and especially if someone can cover what the latest on VDSM Storage side of things... Repository engines, SDM, Mixing of storage domains etc.

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Understand what it is and how it works including its various features so that as a tester I can come up with good tests.

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Knowledge, people networking and fun?

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mostly on how to use oVirt with respect to quickly deploying images across systems

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1. Overview of oVirt, 2. How well it matches up to the existing virtualization management stack from competitors, esp vSphere, and others? 3. How well can it integrate with cloud management stack like Openstack and others? 4. What are the existing gaps in the management stack based out of KVM hypervisor that is available in the market and how oVirt can probably be the answer to all the confusion/gaps that is seen in the current Management stack around KVM. 5. oVirt being an open-source version of RHEVM (if my understanding is correct), can other companies tailor & sell oVirt as their offerings. What's the licensing like?

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Knowledge

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Learn more about Virtualization and Live Migration

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Knowledge/Info to get started with oVirt development

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1) Future course of ovirt project 2) Relation between ovirt and RHEVM( missing features like support for VDI) 3) ovirt and cloud ecosystem ( openstack , openshift)

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Regards, Jason

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