On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Fabian Thorns <[email protected]> wrote:
> Giving "virtualization-certificates" to LPIC-1-certified candidates has > the > high risk to produce "lpi-certified virtualization experts" without the > sufficient > experience, which in return would likely harm the overall reputation of the > LPI brand and certificates. > DISCLAIMER: As always, I have _no_ take on what LPI should do with virtualization at _any_ level. 100% of what I post is regarding "capabilities" Upstream and/or built-into most (if not all) distros. People deploy and manage infrastructures, the OS is just one part of that. Even oVirt** was designed to remove the OS aspects as much as possible, and is only allowed because something like libvirt exists. If you are not familiar with libvirt and oVirt, I highly recommend at least a high-level introduction for yourself on both. Libvirt solves virtually every issue I've heard about eccentric solutions, and virsh is its CLI. oVirt was designed to add far much more in the GUI, and really remove any need to manage the platforms directly -- OS, hypervisor and even storage. The main issue with oVirt is that much of the Upstream has basically ignored it (lack of maintainers?), and proprietary vendors have no interest in an open source management solution. So unlike libvirt, it's support of non-KVM is limited. That's sad because oVirt was actually designed to supported Xen and VirtualBox from the get-go, but Citrix-Xen and Oracle have their own, proprietary codebases and did not show interest. -- bjs **P.S. Just some perspective using another example (especially since "KVM" is constantly stated). Again, I am _not_ advocating anything, but just pointing out that other programs aren't being "reduced" in value because they go outside of installing/configuring Linux systems directly. E.g., even the RHCVA (EX318) [A] doesn't require Linux knowledge, or any other Red Hat credential as a prerequisite. Other than a few, select details during deploying RHEV-M, there's really no Linux involved at all. It's virtually all GUI. You even install Windows as a guest, etc... Automation (Unattended, Kickstart, etc...) and templates are the focus. RHEV-M is oVirt managing other technologies. [A] https://www.redhat.com/courses/ex318_red_hat_enterprise_virtualization_exam/study_guide/ -- Bryan J Smith - Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith at ieee.org - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith
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