libvirt or ovirt

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>
> To: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:18:50 AM
> Subject: libvirt or ovirt
> 
> In the past we've talked about running libvirt or ovirt on
> alterway02.
> Now that we have the server access we should really decide. I want to
> reach an agreement before the next meeting (monday 18).
> 
> First let's review the benefits of each. Feel free to add here.
> 
> Benefits of libvirt:
> - Simple to set up
> - Uses little resources
> 
> Benefits of ovirt:
> - Eating our own dogfood
> - Scales beter when we want to have multiple nodes / HA features
> - Has an extensive API
> 
> Both have:
> - Good integration with foreman
> 
> So libvirt would be a better choice if we want to set up fast, but
> may
> limit us in the longer run. Also may use fewer resources, but in the
> long run ovirt may allows us to build a bit of monitoring on top of
> the
> API.

I'm in favor of using oVirt, we know foreman supports integration with it, so it shouldn't be a problem to use it together.
I'd go with a stable version instead of a nightly version though.

It might take a bit more time, but we've waited so far, i think it's better to wait a bit longer and do it properly,
and won't do a temporary solution because using libvirt is simpler. 

Eyal.



> 
> I'd like to get more benefits and/downsides of each solution so we
> can
> reach a conclusion fast.
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