[ovirt-users] Unable to put Host into Maintenance mode

[Christopher Cox]

On 02/15/2018 11:10 AM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
..snippity... with regards to oVirt 3.5
> 
> that’s a really old version….

I know I'll catch heat for this, but by "old" you mean like December of 
2015?  Just trying put things into perspective.  Thus it goes with the 
ancient and decrepit Red Hat Ent. 7.1 days, right?

I know, I know, FOSS... the only thing worse than running today's code 
is running yesterday's.

We still run a 3.5 oVirt in our dev lab, btw.  But I would not have set 
that up (not that I would have recommended oVirt to begin with), 
preferring 3.4 at the time.  I would have waited for 3.6.

With that said, 3.5 isn't exactly on the "stable line" to Red Hat 
Virtualization, that was 3.4 and then 3.6.

Some people can't afford major (downtime) upgrades every 3-6 months or 
so.  But, arguably, maybe we shouldn't be running oVirt.  Maybe it's not 
designed for "production".

I guess oVirt isn't really for production by definition, but many of us 
are doing so.

So... not really a "ding" against oVirt developers, it's just a rapidly 
moving target with the normal risks that come with that.  People just 
need to understand that.

And with that said, the fact that many of us are running those ancient 
decrepit evil versions of oVirt in production today, is actually a 
testimony to its quality.  Good job devs!