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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(a)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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<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
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Hi Folks,</div>
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<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>
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