This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------25A2D970341B7A3DA44DC775 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit My 0.02€ Cost aside (which is actually not the main reason for the organization I work for): * Avoid putting all your eggs in one basket / vendor. This holds true for any particula area. (Virtualization, storage, network equipment, server HW). This gives you leverage when negotiating purchases / renewals / maintenance contract. * The community support for oVirt ABSOLUTELY ROCKS * If you are planning to do something with openstack in the short or mid term, I think oVirt is a nice path to go. o Integration with Glance / Cinder / Neutron is cool. o The hypervisor is the same (KVM). o I have successfully moved VM images to/from openstack and they worked seamlessly. o At the same time, the architecture is quite similar to VCenter, and import of VMs from VMWare works pretty well . * As the compute nodes (hosts) are mostly plain CentOS 7 it is much easier to integrate them with whatever you have in place for monitoring, configuration management, backup... * The user portal with user quotas can work nicely as self-service for users, depending on your needs. * Version update procedures way less painful with oVirt than with VMWare. * On the downside, I think that functionality-wise, VMWare still has an edge, but oVirt is good-enough for a lot of use cases. Eduardo Mayoral Jimeno (emayoral@arsys.es) Administrador de sistemas. Departamento de Plataformas. Arsys internet. +34 941 620 145 ext. 5153 On 07/09/17 13:33, david caughey wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm giving a demo of our new 3 node oVirt deployment next week and am looking for some high points that I can give to the Managers that will be a sell point. If you could help with the below questions I would really appreciate it:
Who are the big users of oVirt??
Why oVirt and not vMware?? (we are a big vMware house so free doesn't cover it)
What is the future for oVirt??
Why do you use oVirt??
Any links or ideas appreciated,
BR/David
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--------------25A2D970341B7A3DA44DC775 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p>My 0.02€</p> <p>Cost aside (which is actually not the main reason for the organization I work for):</p> <ul> <li>Avoid putting all your eggs in one basket / vendor. This holds true for any particula area. (Virtualization, storage, network equipment, server HW). This gives you leverage when negotiating purchases / renewals / maintenance contract.</li> <li>The community support for oVirt ABSOLUTELY ROCKS</li> <li>If you are planning to do something with openstack in the short or mid term, I think oVirt is a nice path to go. <br> </li> <ul> <li>Integration with Glance / Cinder / Neutron is cool. <br> </li> <li>The hypervisor is the same (KVM). <br> </li> <li>I have successfully moved VM images to/from openstack and they worked seamlessly. <br> </li> <li>At the same time, the architecture is quite similar to VCenter, and import of VMs from VMWare works pretty well . <br> </li> </ul> <li>As the compute nodes (hosts) are mostly plain CentOS 7 it is much easier to integrate them with whatever you have in place for monitoring, configuration management, backup...</li> <li>The user portal with user quotas can work nicely as self-service for users, depending on your needs.</li> <li>Version update procedures way less painful with oVirt than with VMWare.<br> </li> <li>On the downside, I think that functionality-wise, VMWare still has an edge, but oVirt is good-enough for a lot of use cases.<br> </li> </ul> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Eduardo Mayoral Jimeno (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:emayoral@arsys.es">emayoral@arsys.es</a>) Administrador de sistemas. Departamento de Plataformas. Arsys internet. +34 941 620 145 ext. 5153</pre> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/09/17 13:33, david caughey wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAFk-zu58vZaexD-yBDc5SjUzRUoLR3yjrAp_EpjjveMub9veKQ@mail.gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Hi Folks,</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">I'm giving a demo of our new 3 node oVirt deployment next week and am looking for some high points that I can give to the Managers that will be a sell point.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">If you could help with the below questions I would really appreciate it:</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Who are the big users of oVirt??</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Why oVirt and not vMware??</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">(we are a big vMware house so free doesn't cover it)</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">What is the future for oVirt??</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Why do you use oVirt??</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Any links or ideas appreciated,</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">BR/David</div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ Users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------25A2D970341B7A3DA44DC775--