libvirt or ovirt

[Kiril Nesenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> To: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:19:12 PM
> Subject: Re: libvirt or ovirt
> 
> 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?
Correct. Migrating VM from one oVirt to another is quite simple.
> 
> - Karsten
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