Re: libvirt or ovirt

From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; To: infra(a)ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:19:12 PM Subject: Re: libvirt or ovirt On 02/12/2013 01:57 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/12/2013 12:18 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote: >> Benefits of ovirt: >> - Eating our own dogfood >> - Scales beter when we want to have multiple nodes / HA features >> - Has an extensive API > > I'm in favour of using oVirt. One of the things that I liked about > AlterWay's offer was the idea of running oVirt project > infrastructure on > oVirt managed VMs. > > There are two choices inside the oVirt decision: do we want a > separate > oVirt manager, or are we happy having the host managed as a node in > AlterWay's oVirt managed infrastructure? I personally am fine with > using > AlterWay's management console for the VMs and the host. > >> So libvirt would be a better choice if we want to set up fast, but >> may >> limit us in the longer run. Also may use fewer resources, but in >> the >> long run ovirt may allows us to build a bit of monitoring on top >> of the >> API. > > Using AlterWay's oVirt set-up negates the argument about it being > longer > to set up too - everything is ready to go right now. And doesn't stop us from putting up our own management console/oVirt manager in the future, right? It should be simple to migrate VMs from one manager to another, right?

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