[Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?

Tue Sep 3 07:53:53 UTC 2013

hi

please add support from solaris , ubuntu and other OS's. installation is a
little hard specially in an evironment without internet.
regards,

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Doron Fediuck <dfediuck at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> | To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> | Cc: users at ovirt.org, "Jan-Olov Persson" <jan-olov.persson at slu.se>
> | Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 10:42:52 AM
> | Subject: Re: [Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?
> |
> | Hi,
> |
> | I would like to see a more advanced type of Power-Saving Cluster policy,
> | where an empty Host gets put into a sleep-mode, so that it draws as
> little
> | power as possible and can be awoken by engine when VM's starts to use
> more
> | resources.
> |
> | A typical scenario would be that all VM's are spread evenly over Hosts
> during
> | day-time, when customers are actively using their VM's. But then during
> | off-hours, VM's gets clumped up into maybe one or two Hosts, and the
> other
> | Hosts can be put to sleep to save energy, and then woken up in the
> morning
> | again.
> |
> | /Karli
> |
>
> Hi Karli,
> this should be achievable for you in 3.3 with some minor work on your side;
> In oVirt 3.3 we introduce the new scheduler, which allows you to run your
> own
> code when doing VM placement and load balancing.
>
> You can write your own load balancing logic replacing the built-in one,
> which will switch to power saving at a given time. Once a host has no
> running VMs, your balance logic can switch it into S3 state (sleep), and
> when needed or in a given time use wake-on-lan to resume all suspended
> hosts.
>
> If you want we can guide you through it post 3.3 release.
>
> Doron
>
> | tis 2013-08-20 klockan 17:19 -0400 skrev Itamar Heim:
> |
> |
> | earlier in the year we did a survey for feature requests / improvements
> | / etc.
> |
> | since a lot of things were added, and priorities usually change, I'd
> | like to ask again for "what do you need the most from oVirt / what are
> | your pain points" next?
> |
> | below[1] I've listed my understanding of what already went in from
> | previous survey requests (to various degrees of coverage).
> |
> | Thanks,
> |     Itamar
> |
> | [1] from the top 12
> | V Allow disk resize
> | V Integrate Nagios/Zabbix monitoring - via a ui plugin
> | V Highly Available engine - via hosted engine[2]
> | V Open vSwitch integration - via neutron integration
> | X Allow cloning VMs without template
> | ? Enable hypervisor upgrade/updates through engine[3]
> | V Allow engine on an oVirt hosted VM - via hosted engine[2]
> | V Enable guest configuration (root password, SSH keys, network) via
> |    guest agent in engine - via cloud-init
> | X Integrate v2v into engine
> | ? Bond/extend ovirtmgmt with a second network for HA/increased
> |    bandwidth[4]
> | X Integrate scheduling of snapshots and VM export for backups in
> |    engine[5]
> | V Spice – support Google Chrome - via mime based launch
> |
> |
> | Other items mentioned in previous survey which should be covered by now:
> | - Fix timeout when adding local host during all-in-one configuration
> | - Fix engine set-up when SELinux is disabled
> | - Provide packages for el6 (CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
> | - Allow multiple VMs to be deployed from the same template at the same
> |    time
> | - ISO domains on local/GlusterS
> | - Show IP addresses in Virtual Machines->Network Interfaces
> | - OpenStack Quantum support (now called Neutron)
> | - noVNC support
> | - Support spice.html5 and websocket proxy
> | - Add other guest OSes to list
> | - Port oVirt guest agent to Ubuntu[6]
> | - SLA - Allow resource time-sharing
> | - Spice - Mac client (via mime based launch)
> | - Spice - port XPI plug-in to Windows (not sure this will happen, but
> |    mime based launch allows using firefox now)
> | - Spice - client for Ubuntu/Debian (should be covered via mime based
> |    launch)
> |
> |
> | [2] hosted engine is in active development, but not released yet.
> | [3] host update is supported, but not for general yum update.
> | [4] a lot of improvements were done in this space, but i'm not sure if
> |      they cover this exact use case
> | [5] backup api is now being pushed to master, and orchestration of
> |      backups should probably happen via 3rd part backup vendors?
> | [6] I'm not sure packaging exists yet, but ubuntu is covered for the
> |      basic functionality of the guest agent.
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