<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 2:33 PM, david caughey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djc636@gmail.com" target="_blank">djc636@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Hi Folks,</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">I'm giving a demo of our new 3 node oVirt deployment next week and am looking for some high points that I can give to the Managers that will be a sell point.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">If you could help with the below questions I would really appreciate it:</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Who are the big users of oVirt??</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are many. We don't have a lot of user cases on <a href="http://ovirt.org">ovirt.org</a>, but there are many universities, for example.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Why oVirt and not vMware??</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">(we are a big vMware house so free doesn't cover it)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is VMware free? Or open? Can you fix bugs or add features to it?</div><div>I'm (VERY) biased, but I think ease of use, performance (especially of Linux VMs) and breadth of integration are the main key points.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">What is the future for oVirt??</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>4.2 Alpha is just around the corner, with new UI and plenty features. Any area specifically?</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Why do you use oVirt??</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I know some use it for server virtualization, some for desktop virtualization. I think more for the former than the latter.</div><div>An IAAS for containers based solutions (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift) is also a strong initiative recently. </div><div>It is definitely used for used at any scale - from a home lab, 3 nodes hyper-converged to enterprise, with hundreds of hosts for mission critical, highly available services.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">Any links or ideas appreciated,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think such presentation would be more successful if it hit the needs of the recipients. What are their current pain points? Where would they like to be tomorrow?</div><div>Y.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3366ff">BR/David</div></div>
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