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

[René Koch (ovido)]

On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 18:03 -0400, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "René Koch (ovido)" <r.koch at ovido.at>
> > To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "ovirt-users" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 11:31:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for starting this thread again.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 17:19 -0400, Itamar Heim wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > 
> > Great!
> > 
> > 
> > > V Integrate Nagios/Zabbix monitoring - via a ui plugin
> > 
> > 
> > Zabbix isn't working yet with my ui plugin (is there maybe another one
> > which integrates Zabbix?) - but it will be available in a future
> > release.
> > Btw, there will be a new version of the monitoring ui plugin with new
> > features available out at the end of this week...
> > 
> > 
> > > V Highly Available engine - via hosted engine[2]
> > > V Open vSwitch integration - via neutron integration
> > > X Allow cloning VMs without template
> > 
> > 
> > This is definitely one feature I would like to see.
> > 
> > 
> > > ? Enable hypervisor upgrade/updates through engine[3]
> > 
> > 
> > The next feature I would like to request.
> > 
> > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > 
> > Cool. Can this be done on oVirt-node as well or only on
> > CentOS/RHEL/Fedora hosts?
> > 
> > 
> > > X Integrate v2v into engine
> > 
> > 
> > Vote for this again :)
> > 
> > 
> > > ? 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
> > 
> > 
> > At the moment spice support is really a pain (especially on Windows as
> > the SpiceX.cab is missing). Great to hear that spice support has
> > improved and Chrome can be used as well!
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > 
> > ISO and export domains on FC/iSCSI would be good to have as well.
> > 
> > 
> > > - 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
> > 
> > 
> > Good to hear that other Linux distributions will be added as well.
> > 
> > 
> > > - 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)
> > 
> > 
> > Additional features I would like to see are:
> > - oVirt guest agent for Ubuntu/openSUSE/SLES/Debian *
> > 
> > *Ubuntu is already available thanks to Zhou Zheng Sheng
> > 
> > - Resource pools
> > At the moment only Quotas are available (which is great, btw), but in
> > some cases it's necessary to implement resource pools. E.g. Limit CPU,
> > Memory and Network for group of test vms, but give full resources to
> > production vms. Maybe this could be done with cgroups?
> > So e.g. I don't want to give a compile machine a full cpu core, but only
> > 1 core with 500MHz or limit the bandwith to e.g. 10Mbit/s.
> > 
> 
> Hi René,
> Due to time constraints, it did not make it into the 3.3 release, however
> in master we already have network QoS allowing you to limit bandwidth for
> vNICs.
> Also, we managed to implement CPU shares which allows you to handle priorities.
> Both will be included in the next version, and hopefuly some more.
> 
> So if you ever feel like taking a ride with the bleeding edge, you have both
> network QoS and CPU shares waiting there.  


Thanks a lot for the information!
It's great to know that this is/will be available.


> 
> > - Upload ISOs within the GUI to ISO domain
> > 
> > - Use existing share for ISO domain
> > When creating an ISO domain, oVirt creates it's own directory
> > structure with IDs. It would be nice if an existing share could be used
> > (e.g. an ISO share on NFS server which is used by other service, too)
> > without creating the structure with IDs. I know that the IDs are needed
> > internally but I think it should be possible to reuse an existing share.
> > 
> > 
> > Last but not least I want to thank all contributors of this project for
> > their great work so far!
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > René
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [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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