very nice! great to see the distribution of OSs, can give us a hint on where to focus testing/ci/etc...

e. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: devel(a)ovirt.org, Users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 1:56:30 PM > Subject: [ovirt-users] Where do you run oVirt? Here are the answers! > > Hi, > This is a summary of the 85 response we got to the last month poll. Thanks > everyone who answered! > > Which distribution are you using for running ovirt-engine? > Fedora 20 8 9% > CentOS 6 52 61% > CentOS 7 22 26% > Other 3 4% > > Which distribution are you using for your nodes? > Fedora 20 6 7% > CentOS 6 40 47% > CentOS 7 31 36% > oVirt Node 6 7% > Other 2 2% > > In Other: RHEL 6.6, 7.0, 7.1 and a mixed environment of CentOS 6 and 7. > > Do you use Hosted Engine? > Yes 42 49% > No 42 49% > > > Would you like to share more info on your datacenter, vms,...? Tell us about > it > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > oVirt is so AWESOME! I luv it. > -- > "We currently run engine on CentOS 6 as CentOS 7 was not yet supported. We > plan on migrating it to a CentOS 7 machine. > Our nodes are currently CentOS 6 but are planning to migrate to CentOS 7. > (For the nodes a checkbox for each distribution would be better than the > radiobutton, as you can have multiple clusters with different > distributions)." > > -- > FC Storage (Dell md3620f and IBM Blade-S internal SAS storage) > > -- > Please provide ceph support and built in backup tools > > -- > "3 separate virtual RHEV datacenters, test, dev, prod. > Use direct attach fibre channel luns for application storage heavily on VMs > to take advantage of snapshot/restore features on our array. > Hosted Engine in test and dev. Physical manager in prod. " > > -- > "2 nodes running centos 6.6 from SSD (i3 35w 32GB) > 1x NFS datastore > 1x ISO datastore > 1 node running NFS (i3 35w 8GB, Dell PERC sas controller) > All 3 nodes connected via 10Gb ethernet > Between 9 en 15 VM's depending on my tests > Always active > - Zimbra > - ldap/dhcp > - web/php > - devel/php > - pfsense > Develop/test > - Hadoop > - Openstack > - Gluster > - ms..." > > -- > "- 4 nodes for KVM, 4 nodes for GlusterFS. > - 1Gigabit for management and 4Gigabit channel bonding for GlusterFS replica. > - Master Storage Domain lives on replica-3 GlustrerFS volume." > > -- > "30 hvs NFS storage over infiniband, custom portal for task automation and > classroom abstraction via API" > > -- > "We use atm local storage. > Current running vm count is over 100. > I'd like to use EL7 platform in the future, but I'm uncertain how to best > upgrade everything with a minimal downtime. > we currently run ovirt-engine 3.3.3 > we will stick with EL platform and not switch to fedora based, because > we need the improved stability. > we also do not upgrade to dot zero releases as these introduced > some breakage in the past (regressions). > I hope this gets better with future releases. > Keep up the good work! > Sven" > > -- > "Storage GlusterFS (Virt+Gluster on Nodes), and FreeNAS via NFS" > > -- > "- iSCSI dedicated network > - 2x Poweredge M1000e chassis (so, 2 x 16 blades)" > > -- > Yes it's NIELIT a gov agency to provide various trannig on virtual > environment > > -- > "Running production engine on CentOS6 with CentOS6 nodes. > Test/Staging environemtn based on CentOS7 and CentOS7 nodes, Hosted-engine on > iSCSI." > > -- > "Mix of Dell, HP, UCS for compute > Netapp for NAS, VNX for FC" > > -- > "Cloud used for CI purpose, made from about ""old"" 50 desktop PCs (and still > growing) with Celerons, i3, i5 and few i7. VMs are ""light"" nodes for > Jenkins (2GB-6GB/2-4cores). Some resources are utilized for cloud's services > like vpn, zabbix, httpd, etc. As storage we use MooseFS!" > > -- > "This is a sample config for the few installes I have performed, but ideal > for a small office. > 2x nodes - CentOS 6 with SSD boot and 2x 2TB drives and 2 gluster volumes > spread over the 2 - 1 for vm storage and 1 for file storage > 1x engine (planning on changing to hosted) > 5x vms - 2x DNS/DHCP/Management, 1x webserver for intranet, 1x mailserver and > 1x Asterisk PBX > " > > -- > "I think that we really need more troubleshooting tools and guides more than > anything. There are various logs, but there is no reason why we > shouldn't be publishing some of this information to the engine UI and even > automating certain self-healing. > The absolute most important feature in my mind is getting the ability to auto > start (restart) VMs after certain failures and attempting to unlock > disks, etc.. VMware does a tremendous amount of that in order to provide > better HA. We need this." > > -- > "Have FC only. Using SVC. Behind it now DS4700. Going to have other storages > too. > This is BYOD. > " > > -- > "One node cluster with local storage for education, POC etc. at home." > > -- > No > > -- > Combo glusterfs storage and vm hosted nodes. Will be migrating engine to > centos 7 at some point. Wish libgfapi was properly supported now that it's > feasible. > > -- > 3 x Supermicro A1SAi-2750F nodes (16 GiB RAM + 8 TiB storage + 8x1GiB/s > Ethernet each) with hyperconverged GlusterFS (doubling as an NFS/CIFS > storage > cluster) > > -- > "running 15 vms, for univ apps (LMS/SIS/etc), using dual freeIPA (vms), > glusterfs (replicated-distributed-10G net)" > > -- > "Tried to install hosted engine on Centos 7, but ran into issues and went for > Fedora20 instead. Fedora20 installation was pretty much problem free. > Using NFS on Synology NAS for vm disks." > > -- > "3 clusters, 1 gluster storage cluster, 50 TB total disk space, with 4 hosts > all volumes replica 3 > 2 virtualisation clusters, SandyBridge with 5 hosts, Nehelem with 2 hosts > running about 70 mostly Linux clients, hosted engine runs on 3 of the > SandyBridge nodes." > > -- > I use oVirt since version 3.0. The evolution of this project is outstanding. > The biggest unsolved problem is that there is no good backup solution for > oVirt. > > -- > Modest server with all-in-one oVirt installation. > > -- > "oVirt is for Testing actually, I should say validate. We use Xen Open Source > and plan to migrate to oVirt during this year." > > -- > "4 nodes, 30 VM's (10 are HA), ISO and export domain on NAS, local drives > shared over NFS between nodes, one FC primary storage domain 1TB. Engine is > a KVM VM on a CentOS host." > > -- > "5 hosts, FC" > > -- > Development system for working with other Open Source projects. > > -- > "1. DATA_DOMAIN - HP P2000 G3 FC > 2. Nodes - Intel server boards SB2400BB > 3. VMS - On CentOS 6.6" > > -- > We are developing VDI solution based on oVirt/KVM/SPICE. > > -- > So I answered for my largest oVirt cluster. I actually have several > > -- > "Create multiple VM using ovirt in order to provide platform as a service in > my campus environment. > All the VM(s) created will be used to run web based application for the > purpose of final year project presentation. > I did this only on 1 physical server as we currently have the limitation on > the hardware part." > > -- > "small lab environment, ~10 nodes, ~20-30 VMs." > > -- > Ovirt 3.4.4 with 16 VDSM Nodes and 170 virtual machines. We currently use > Direct attached disks from our ISCSI SAN and we use the snapshot and > replication features of the SAN (Dell Equallogic). > > -- > "Lab @Home > SuperMicro mainboard with 1 x Xeon quad core cpu (Sandy Bridge) > 32 GB RAM > Synology NAS with storage for oVirt through iSCSI" > > -- > "IBM Blade Center. > 1 Engine > 2 Ovirt Nodes > 1 NAS for NFS" > > -- > "We started looking at OVIRT a while ago and it had come a long way. My only > objection to migrating it into our production is the issues we have with > the network interfaces (bonded VLAN tags on the mgmt) and their removal on > boot/reboot. Other than that we have fully tested multi-cluster glusterized > environments successfully. > Again outside of the networks the only other feature I would suggest is > gluster storage for the hosted engine. " > > -- > Storage is ZFS shared over NFS via dual 10 gbit links. Running 15 nodes now. > > -- > We will upgrade up CentOS7 soon > > -- > "2 FC datacenters, 4 VNX SAN, 2 4To Lun, 25 hosts on 2 physical sites, 180 > centos server vms. We used to recycle all our old servers (1950, 2950, G6 > etc..) to get additional vCPU and RAM, but it has no more interest since we > got 4 new r630 chassis with 128 Go of RAM and 40 vCPUs per server. So the > goal is to reduce the number of hosts when keeping the same capacities." > > -- > "2 production setups in different DC, beginning their history from ovirt-3.2, > thus centos6 and no hosted-engine. > dell m1000e bladesystem + fc storage in first one; hp dl580 g7 + fc storage > in second. ~150 vms in each" > > -- > Storage is ZFS shared over NFS via dual 10 gbit links. Running 15 nodes now. > > -- > "Just started using Ovirt, we're using supermicro microcloud servers with > 32GB memory and quad core E3-1241v3 Xeons. > We're using the jenkins builds of ovirt-node since there isn't a recent > ovirt-node build. " > > -- > Hyorvisor used also as replica glusterfs nodes. > > -- > "We run about 20 VMs on 3 proliant machines with a msa backed shared storage. > We have migrated dec/jan to oVirt and I am a big fan of the virtualization > solution. We ran VPS before on Virtuozzo, but it did not provide out of the > box HA. > The only thing I was missing is some way of automated backups. > We have finally bought a proprietary backup solution ( R1soft CDP ) to run > within the VMs to have disaster and file backups. > Overall a great product! > " > > > > -- > Sandro Bonazzola > Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. > See how it works at redhat.com > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users