Il giorno dom 4 apr 2021 alle ore 16:13 Nicolas Kovacs <info@microlinux.fr> ha scritto:
Hi,

I'm a 53-year old Austrian living in Montpezat, a small village in South
France. I'm an IT professional with a focus on Linux and free software, and
I've been a Linux user since Slackware 7.1.

Welcome to oVirt community!

 

I'm doing web & mail hosting for myself and several small structures like our
local school and a handful of local companies. Up until recently these hostings
have happened on "bare metal" root servers using CentOS 7. One main server is
hosting most of the stuff: WordPress sites, one OwnCloud instance, Dolibarr
management software, GEPI learning platform, Postfix/Dovecot mail server,
Roundcube webmail, etc.

This setup has become increasingly problematic to manage, since applications
have more and more specific requirements, like different versions of PHP and
corresponding modules.

So I decided to split everything up nicely into a series of virtual machines,
each one with a nicely tailored setup.

I have a couple of sandbox servers, one public and one local, running Oracle
Linux 7 (a RHEL clone like CentOS). I played around with it, and KVM-based
virtualization already works quite nicely.

While looking for documentation, I stumbled over oVirt, which I didn't even
know existed until last week. Before I dive head first into it, I'd be curious
to know a few general things.

1. Would it be overkill for a small structure like mine?

If you have only a couple of bare metal and a few VMs you may consider more lightweight virtualization managers like cockpit project machine plugin (https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-virtualmachines ) or kimchi project (https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi ) or virt-manager (https://virt-manager.org/ )

 

2. Will I be able to do HA on a series of modest KVM-capable root servers even
if they are located in different datacenters across different countries?

I think it mostly depends on the network latency and speed. Having HA with servers in different countries may be problematic.

 

3. One problem I couldn't resolve using a bone-headed keep-it-simple KVM setup
is backup. For my bare-metal servers I've been using incremental backups using
Rsnapshot for years. Here's a blog article I wrote on the subject:

https://blog.microlinux.fr/rsnapshot-centos-7/

Unfortunately I can't use this approach with huge QCOW images, at least not
without jumping through burning loops.

Is there an easy way to perform remote incremental backups with oVirt?

There are a few backup vendors that provide solutions for backing up oVirt VMs, you can just query google for them.

 

BTW, I took a peek at Proxmox and Ceph, but I admit I'm a die-hard RHEL-clone
user.

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki

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