[Users] What are you looking for from oVirt?

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Romain Vrignaud" <rvrignaud at gmail.com>
> To: "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>, "arch" <arch at ovirt.org>,
> "Users" <users at ovirt.org>, "board" <board at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 4:13:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] What are you looking for from oVirt?

> Hello,

> I don't run currently any oVirt deployement in production but I have
> a lab.
> I used to run in production the old oVirt product (in rails).

> My best wishes for the future release of oVirt are :
> * GluserFS support as many of us
> * Nova (OpenStack Hypervisor) driver support (
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/selecting-a-hypervisor.html
> ).
> I choose oVirt because my first goal is to manage a virtualized
> datacenter with OSS. But we begin to look at private cloud
> deployement.
> I think Aeolus would work with oVirt virtualization backend but AFAIK
> it only support redhat based linux which is not possible for us as
> we run

> Aelous has a RHEVM/oVirt driver that works today.
> If there are problems getting Aeolus working with oVirt we should dig
> into it, there shouldn't be any issues.

> almost only debian server except for virtualisation layer. So we
> would like to deploy OpenStack but to rely on oVirt for KVM
> hypervisors.

> Out of interest what are you getting from OpenStack that you don't
> get from oVirt

> * Fully supported stateless ovirt-node

> Regards,

> Romain

> 2012/6/28 Robert Middleswarth < robert at middleswarth.net >

> > On 06/15/2012 06:23 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> 

> > > Hi,
> > 
> 

> > > On 06/13/2012 04:28 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> > 
> 

> > > > So - how are you using oVirt? Why did you choose it over
> > > > alternatives?
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > > > What do you like about it? and what would you like to see
> > > > change,
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > > > whether that is in terms of technical, process, or marketing
> > > > changes?
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > > > I'm here to help, but to do so I need your help first!
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > Thank you to all those who have replied, on and off list, so far.
> > > For
> > > those of you who sent me private messages, I'll be (anonymously)
> > > collating your feedback and forwarding it on.
> > 
> 

> > > The range of users who have replied so far includes:
> > 
> 
> > > * Sysadmin at small web hosting business
> > 
> 
> > > * Cost-sensitive IT department of an unrelated industry
> > 
> 

> > That would be me.
> 

> > > * Hosting provider specialising in HA
> > 
> 
> > > * Running a private cloud
> > 
> 
> > > * Test lab set-up considering for production deployment
> > 
> 

> > Well no one should be crazy enough to go live with a product they
> > haven't at least ran inside a testing lab.
> 

> > > And the top features you've cited are:
> > 
> 
> > > * Stateless hypervisor
> > 
> 
> > > * Ability to migrate VMs
> > 
> 

> > Number one reason I am working with oVirt
> 

> > > * RHEL and KVM
> > 
> 

> > We are a debian based org so changing over to the RHEL based OS's
> > is
> > more a pain then a benefit. KVM is still kinda young compared to
> > both Xen / Vmware it seems to work well but there aren't as many
> > os's covered by the vitro drivers and there seem to be more bugs /
> > race conditions but that has been steadily changing as it has been
> > getting more mature
> 

> > > * Cost
> > 
> 
> > > * The ability to have your preferred OS as both hypervisor and
> > > guest
> > > as a first class citizen
> > 
> 
> > > * Aimed for data center use-case rather than cloud
> > 
> 

> > This would be number 2 in the list.
> 

> > > And the top gaps you've identified so far:
> > 
> 
> > > * Insufficient resources (docs) to help with production
> > > deployment
> > > on
> > > ovirt.org
> > 
> 
> > > * Difficulty of configuration and getting started
> > 
> 
> > > * You'd like to see a more diverse contributor community
> > 
> 
> > > * Stability (unfortunately, I don't have any concrete examples of
> > > this from the commenter)
> > 
> 
> > > * History on resource usage in hypervisors and guests
> > 
> 
> > > * Integration with Gluster
> > 
> 
> > > * Offer choices of guest agents with other distributions than
> > > RHEL
> > 
> 

> > I could have created this list myself. I have hit pretty much every
> > one of these limits in the last few months working with the
> > project.
> > 3.1 adds limited support for Gluster and ovirt seems to be more
> > stable dispute F17 instability.
> 

> > As for the question of stability the file storage system in 3.0 can
> > be a bit unstable. If your NFS share disappears for a few mins the
> > file system tends to go offline and wont reactivate. Not sure about
> > iscsi or FC since I don't have access to those file systems.
> 

> > > This is all giving me great insight into who's here - please keep
> > > it
> > > coming!
> > 
> 

> > > Cheers,
> > 
> 
> > > Dave.
> > 
> 

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