[ovirt-users] Introduction & general question about oVirt

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. 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? 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? 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? 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 -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12