libvirt or ovirt

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

On 02/12/2013 01:57 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02/12/2013 12:18 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
>> Benefits of ovirt:
>> - Eating our own dogfood
>> - Scales beter when we want to have multiple nodes / HA features
>> - Has an extensive API
> 
> I'm in favour of using oVirt. One of the things that I liked about
> AlterWay's offer was the idea of running oVirt project infrastructure on
> oVirt managed VMs.
> 
> There are two choices inside the oVirt decision: do we want a separate
> oVirt manager, or are we happy having the host managed as a node in
> AlterWay's oVirt managed infrastructure? I personally am fine with using
> AlterWay's management console for the VMs and the host.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Using AlterWay's oVirt set-up negates the argument about it being longer
> to set up too - everything is ready to go right now.

And doesn't stop us from putting up our own management console/oVirt
manager in the future, right? It should be simple to migrate VMs from
one manager to another, right?

- Karsten
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