Still running oVirt after 7 years
Hello to all the oVirt veterans here, I'm a virtualization engineer who has run oVirt as my main platform for about seven years, mostly Oracle's build of it, OLVM. I've also worked with VMware, OpenStack, and Proxmox. Of those four, honestly, VMware seems to be the best 😅. It rarely goes down, and strangely, even on the same hardware it seems to hit far fewer faults (just my own experience). OpenStack is great for development by many people and for scaling out on a large scale, but it can be complex and hard to operate. The UI is limited too, so in operations I mostly use the CLI. Proxmox has a good API and a modular design, but maybe it's just habit: it doesn't feel as convenient as oVirt, where I can check logs and troubleshoot from one place, the Engine. Among them, I've always found oVirt stable and easy to use. I often thought it would be more than enough for small companies. But it's a bit sad that it hasn't grown as much as I expected. I was personally very sad to see RHV discontinued. Oracle still maintains it as OLVM, and well, I really hope they keep doing so. Red Hat's OpenStack offering is also moving onto OpenShift. Maybe it's because the software industry has shifted toward cloud-native (containers and Kubernetes)? OS and virtualization upgrade cycles also seem to be getting shorter these days. Still, oVirt was the platform I started my career on, so it means a lot to me. I'm still running oVirt today, and my company is adopting it more and more. These days I also operate a private cloud based on openstack-helm. In the past my work was mostly incident response and analysis, but now I'd like to give something back and contribute to oVirt, even in a small way. What do you think could help oVirt grow and thrive again? I'd love to hear your thoughts. It's been a while since I visited the community, so I just wanted to write a few lines. I hope to keep using oVirt for a long time. Cheers to everyone keeping it going!
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