What are you looking for from oVirt?
Hi everyone, That is a grand subject for my first "proper" email to the Users list, and it definitely needs some context! So let me introduce myself. My name is Dave Neary, and I recently started working for a group which is being formed inside Red Hat called OSAS (open source and standards). The role of my group is to help make any open source projects that Red Hat works in successful, and I would really like to help take oVirt to the next level in terms of adoption and contribution. One of the things I'm still figuring out is what the natural audience for oVirt is, and what you all like about oVirt, and would like to see improved. Based on that, I would like to propose areas we as a community can concentrate on related to the product, the website, and our marketing and promotion, but the first step is still to get a better idea what the target audience for oVirt is, and should be. So - how are you using oVirt? Why did you choose it over alternatives? What do you like about it? and what would you like to see change, whether that is in terms of technical, process, or marketing changes? I'm here to help, but to do so I need your help first! Please feel free to reply to me on-list (if you'd like to start discussion) or off-list (if you'd like your feedback to be more discrete). Any feedback at all will be helpful. Thank you very much - I look forward to hearing from as many of you as possible. Regards, Dave. PS. I'm still figuring out proper mailing list etiquette for this project - I've added board@ and arch@ to CC since I expect our work to have project-wide consequences, but it's more to keep people informed at this point. Please let me know off-list if I'm doing something I shouldn't! -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards Team, Red Hat Phone: +33 9 50 71 55 62
Hi Dave, everyone I have run a Web Hosting from 10 years ago. I integrated the Web Hosting server with KVM 2 years ago. I thought I tried to offer the VPS server which was rare in Japan, using the remaining resources. I am a server engineer, not a programmer. Regrettably, VPS market has stabilized at a low price while I spent much time in programming the "Administrator Portal" and "User Portal". However, the VPS and the cloud have restrictions even now. * Can not use your favorite OS.(That can only be used a template) * Can not strengthen by focusing on specific performance. I want to provide services which improve this issue I do not have money to buy expensive software, such as RHEV. When I started to give up the dream, I found a oVirt. Now, I am studying the feasibility of a dream by oVirt. I hope to be able to concentrate on infrastructure design without programming by oVirt However I feel that there is not enough stability yet if VPS is provided with oVirt version for now. oVirt community has companies such as RedHat. I believe that the operation of the oVirt will be stable in the version of near future. I was late in the VPS market. I have "chagrin" in the VPS market. I want to be a pioneer in Japan as that does not happen in oVirt. Therefore, I forward preparing offers of VPS using oVirt in the fall. I hope "the Japanese translation" and "stabilization" of oVirt than new features. thanks. P.S. I seek the formation of Japanese community in order to become one of the pioneers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- SeireiNetwork representative director : Takamune Konishi 19F HiltonPlazaWest 2-2-2 Umeda Kita-ku Osaka Japan Corp http://seirei.ne.jp/ Blog http://konishi.me/ <= oVirt Install Guide ISP http://vpos.seirei.ne.jp/ WebHosting http://seirei.ath.cx/ tel +81-6-7494-6690 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012/6/13 Dave Neary <dneary@redhat.com>:
Hi everyone,
That is a grand subject for my first "proper" email to the Users list, and it definitely needs some context! So let me introduce myself.
My name is Dave Neary, and I recently started working for a group which is being formed inside Red Hat called OSAS (open source and standards). The role of my group is to help make any open source projects that Red Hat works in successful, and I would really like to help take oVirt to the next level in terms of adoption and contribution.
One of the things I'm still figuring out is what the natural audience for oVirt is, and what you all like about oVirt, and would like to see improved. Based on that, I would like to propose areas we as a community can concentrate on related to the product, the website, and our marketing and promotion, but the first step is still to get a better idea what the target audience for oVirt is, and should be.
So - how are you using oVirt? Why did you choose it over alternatives? What do you like about it? and what would you like to see change, whether that is in terms of technical, process, or marketing changes? I'm here to help, but to do so I need your help first!
Please feel free to reply to me on-list (if you'd like to start discussion) or off-list (if you'd like your feedback to be more discrete). Any feedback at all will be helpful.
Thank you very much - I look forward to hearing from as many of you as possible.
Regards, Dave.
PS. I'm still figuring out proper mailing list etiquette for this project - I've added board@ and arch@ to CC since I expect our work to have project-wide consequences, but it's more to keep people informed at this point. Please let me know off-list if I'm doing something I shouldn't!
-- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards Team, Red Hat Phone: +33 9 50 71 55 62 _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board
Hi, On 06/13/2012 04:28 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
So - how are you using oVirt? Why did you choose it over alternatives? What do you like about it? and what would you like to see change, whether that is in terms of technical, process, or marketing changes? I'm here to help, but to do so I need your help first!
Thank you to all those who have replied, on and off list, so far. For those of you who sent me private messages, I'll be (anonymously) collating your feedback and forwarding it on. The range of users who have replied so far includes: * Sysadmin at small web hosting business * Cost-sensitive IT department of an unrelated industry * Hosting provider specialising in HA * Running a private cloud * Test lab set-up considering for production deployment And the top features you've cited are: * Stateless hypervisor * Ability to migrate VMs * RHEL and KVM * Cost * The ability to have your preferred OS as both hypervisor and guest as a first class citizen * Aimed for data center use-case rather than cloud And the top gaps you've identified so far: * Insufficient resources (docs) to help with production deployment on ovirt.org * Difficulty of configuration and getting started * You'd like to see a more diverse contributor community * Stability (unfortunately, I don't have any concrete examples of this from the commenter) * History on resource usage in hypervisors and guests * Integration with Gluster * Offer choices of guest agents with other distributions than RHEL This is all giving me great insight into who's here - please keep it coming! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards Team, Red Hat Phone: +33 9 50 71 55 62
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