[ovirt-users] Re: CentOS 8 is dead

Hi Strahil, OpenVZ is winding down, unfortunately. They haven't gone near CentOS8 yet any I don't see that happen either. It's very unfortunate, because I really loved that project and I always preferred its container abstraction as well as the resource management tools, because scale-in is really the more prevalent use case where I work. I see Kir Kolyshkin is now at Redhat, but he doesn't seem to be working on cool things like CRIU any more, just Kubernetes. I had issues trying to get CUDA working with OpenVZ (inside containers), too, mostly because Nvidia's software was doing stupid things like trying to load modules. It's the reason I went back to VMs, because they actually seem to have less trouble with GPUs these days, which must have cost man centuries of engineer time to achieve. I'll have to look at RHV pricing to see if it's an alternative. We seem to have extremely attractive RHEL licensing prices to push out our CentOS usage and now we know how that will change. But I won't be able to use those licenses for my home-lab, which is where I test things before I move them to the corporate lab, which is hundreds of miles away, instead of under the table. As far as I am concerned, I did already spend far too much time learning about oVirt. I didn't want a full time involvement, but it's clearly what it takes and actually a 24x7 team while you're at it. My understanding of a fault tolerant environment is really, that you can move maintenance to where it suits you and that you just add another brick for more reliability. I've never operated Nutanix, but I can't imagine that expanding a 3 node HCI is the same experience. E.g. I'd naturally want to use erasure coding with higher node counts, but the Python code for that is simply not there: I twiddled with Ansible code to get a 4:1 dispersed volume working that I now need to migrate to oVirt 4.4... My commitment to Gluster is hampered by Redhat's commitment to Gluster. Initially it seemed just genius, exactly the right approach, especially with VDO. But the integration between Gluster and oVirt seems stuck at six months after Gluster acquisition, not the years that passed since. IMHO oVirt is a house of cards, that's a little to agile to run even the lab parts of an enterprise. But for the next year, I'll probably stick with it. But it's chances of replacing VMware even via RHEL/RHV for production have shrunk to pretty much zero. Too bad that that was exactly what I had in mind.