[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt alternatives
On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, Alex McWhirter wrote:
ProxMox is probably the closest option, but has no multi-clustering
support.
The clusters are more or less isolated from each other, and would need
another layer if you needed the ability to migrate between them.
It's also Debian-based, so if you're an EL shop, it may not play well with
a lot of your existing infrastructure. This was the main reason we went
with oVirt in the first place.
OpenNebula, more like a DIY AWS than anything else, but was
functional last i
played with it.
I never tried it, but it sounds more like a lighter weight version of
OpenStack. I guess that's sort of the same thing...
Has anyone actually played with OpenShift virtualization (replaces
RHV)?
Wonder if OKD supports it with a similar model?
Not yet, but it looks like it's a plugin for OKD.
https://docs.okd.io/latest/virt/about-virt.html
One other possible replacement if you don't use the more advanced
capabilities of oVirt which some may not think about is Foreman. It
allows you to provision VMs on libvirt, and post-provisioning it gives you
the ability to launch a graphical console on them from a single web-based
management interface. You will need to log directly into hosts to use
virsh for things like migration, adjusting VM parameters, etc, so it's not
a complete replacement, but may work for some comfortable with using
CLI-based management tools.