2016-07-05 13:39 GMT-04:00 Bruno Friedmann <[email protected]>:
> On lundi, 4 juillet 2016 18.22:06 h CEST Ciro Iriarte wrote:
>> 2016-07-04 4:30 GMT-04:00 Cedric Bosdonnat <[email protected]>:
>> > Ciao!
>> >
>> > On Sun, 2016-07-03 at 17:07 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
>> >> Xenserver/ESXi/Proxmox/Acropolis are out because of software R6 and
>> >> having a single host,  so I'm turning to openSUSE. I've worked a lot
>> >> with Xen years ago but I understand the guys that get all the
>> >> attention these days are KVM and docker, and Xen might be a second
>> >> class citizen.
>> >>
>> >> Given I would like:
>> >> - Software R6 on the host
>> >
>> > Not sure what that is...
>> >
>> >> - Virtualization nesting
>> >
>> > KVM has some nested virtualization support, depending on your hardware.
>> > See this blog post for some help on it:
>> >
>> > https://kashyapc.com/2012/01/14/nested-virtualization-with-kvm-intel/
>> >
>> >> - PCI passthrough
>> >
>> > Both Xen and KVM can do it.
>> >
>> >> - Some permanent VMs
>> >> - Lots of temporary VMs
>> >>
>> >> Would you suggest to go with XEN or KVM or Virtualbox in this specific
>> >> scenario at this point in time?, can I assume docker will place nice
>> >> with any of them?.
>> >
>> > I would suggest KVM + virt-manager + libvirt. If you need a web UI, you
>> > can
>> > also try Kimchi. Docker has a different use case than a plain old VM:
>> > docker can't do system containers and you would only have one app in one
>> > container... and remember containers aren't secure, you need to put them
>> > in a VM to be on the safe side ;)
>> >
>> > Hope that helps,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Cedric
>>
>> Thanks for your comments, by R6 I was refering to BTRFS on raid 6 +
>> disk encryption. This box will works as a NAS also.
>>
>> Regards,
>
> Not sure about btrfs choice for storing image you will have to use the nocow
> plus I'm not certain that raid especially the level 6 is mature enough on
> btrfs ( regarding its difficulties to maintain itself up and running without
> assistance )
>
> Software raid6 is still cpu expensive, for myself I'm using a good hardware
> controller and which handle raid6 + battery in case of crash.
>
> The system is then build around lvm (each vm has its own).
>
> my 0.05 Sfr cts ( +/- 0.02 cts € ) ;-)
>
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Thanks, in this case the hardware can handle it. I'll add a UPS to the
mix and it should be rock solid...

Regards,

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