----- Original Message ----- > From: "Romain Vrignaud" <[email protected]> > To: "Dave Neary" <[email protected]>, "arch" <[email protected]>, > "Users" <[email protected]>, "board" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 4:13:32 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] What are you looking for from oVirt?
> Hello, > I don't run currently any oVirt deployement in production but I have > a lab. > I used to run in production the old oVirt product (in rails). > My best wishes for the future release of oVirt are : > * GluserFS support as many of us > * Nova (OpenStack Hypervisor) driver support ( > http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/selecting-a-hypervisor.html > ). > I choose oVirt because my first goal is to manage a virtualized > datacenter with OSS. But we begin to look at private cloud > deployement. > I think Aeolus would work with oVirt virtualization backend but AFAIK > it only support redhat based linux which is not possible for us as > we run > Aelous has a RHEVM/oVirt driver that works today. > If there are problems getting Aeolus working with oVirt we should dig > into it, there shouldn't be any issues. > almost only debian server except for virtualisation layer. So we > would like to deploy OpenStack but to rely on oVirt for KVM > hypervisors. > Out of interest what are you getting from OpenStack that you don't > get from oVirt > * Fully supported stateless ovirt-node > Regards, > Romain > 2012/6/28 Robert Middleswarth < [email protected] > > > On 06/15/2012 06:23 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 06/13/2012 04:28 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > > > > > > > So - how are you using oVirt? Why did you choose it over > > > > alternatives? > > > > > > > > > > What do you like about it? and what would you like to see > > > > change, > > > > > > > > > > whether that is in terms of technical, process, or marketing > > > > changes? > > > > > > > > > > I'm here to help, but to do so I need your help first! > > > > > > > > > Thank you to all those who have replied, on and off list, so far. > > > For > > > those of you who sent me private messages, I'll be (anonymously) > > > collating your feedback and forwarding it on. > > > > > > The range of users who have replied so far includes: > > > > > > * Sysadmin at small web hosting business > > > > > > * Cost-sensitive IT department of an unrelated industry > > > > > That would be me. > > > > * Hosting provider specialising in HA > > > > > > * Running a private cloud > > > > > > * Test lab set-up considering for production deployment > > > > > Well no one should be crazy enough to go live with a product they > > haven't at least ran inside a testing lab. > > > > And the top features you've cited are: > > > > > > * Stateless hypervisor > > > > > > * Ability to migrate VMs > > > > > Number one reason I am working with oVirt > > > > * RHEL and KVM > > > > > We are a debian based org so changing over to the RHEL based OS's > > is > > more a pain then a benefit. KVM is still kinda young compared to > > both Xen / Vmware it seems to work well but there aren't as many > > os's covered by the vitro drivers and there seem to be more bugs / > > race conditions but that has been steadily changing as it has been > > getting more mature > > > > * Cost > > > > > > * The ability to have your preferred OS as both hypervisor and > > > guest > > > as a first class citizen > > > > > > * Aimed for data center use-case rather than cloud > > > > > This would be number 2 in the list. > > > > And the top gaps you've identified so far: > > > > > > * Insufficient resources (docs) to help with production > > > deployment > > > on > > > ovirt.org > > > > > > * Difficulty of configuration and getting started > > > > > > * You'd like to see a more diverse contributor community > > > > > > * Stability (unfortunately, I don't have any concrete examples of > > > this from the commenter) > > > > > > * History on resource usage in hypervisors and guests > > > > > > * Integration with Gluster > > > > > > * Offer choices of guest agents with other distributions than > > > RHEL > > > > > I could have created this list myself. I have hit pretty much every > > one of these limits in the last few months working with the > > project. > > 3.1 adds limited support for Gluster and ovirt seems to be more > > stable dispute F17 instability. > > > As for the question of stability the file storage system in 3.0 can > > be a bit unstable. If your NFS share disappears for a few mins the > > file system tends to go offline and wont reactivate. Not sure about > > iscsi or FC since I don't have access to those file systems. > > > > This is all giving me great insight into who's here - please keep > > > it > > > coming! > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Dave. > > > > > ______________________________ _________________ > > > Users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.ovirt.org/ mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
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