Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-13 Thread Eduardo Mayoral
My 0.02€ Cost aside (which is actually not the main reason for the organization I work for): * Avoid putting all your eggs in one basket / vendor. This holds true for any particula area. (Virtualization, storage, network equipment, server HW). This gives you leverage when negotiating

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Christopher Cox wrote: > On 09/07/2017 06:33 AM, david caughey wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> 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 >>

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread Christopher Cox
On 09/07/2017 04:06 PM, Dan Yasny wrote: On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Christopher Cox > wrote: Not to defend VMware too much, but if you buy certified HW for VMware, I've never had the purple screen of death. With that said,

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread Dan Yasny
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Christopher Cox wrote: > > Not to defend VMware too much, but if you buy certified HW for VMware, > I've never had the purple screen of death. With that said, I have had the > purple screen of death using non-certified VMware HW. > > I've

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread Christopher Cox
On 09/07/2017 03:49 PM, Michael Kleinpaste wrote: ...snippity di do da... really, so purchasing VMware just doesn't make sense. We've also found VMware to not be as stable as oVirt. Our initial oVirt system has been running for about 3-4 years (I'd have to look at the ticket to get the

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread Michael Kleinpaste
Who are the big users of oVirt? By big do you mean size of company or deployment size. Company-wsie, besides Red Hat? https://www.ovirt.org/community/user-stories/user-stories/ We used to do VMware but dumped it mainly because we got sick of the price tag associated with it. Innovation comes

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread Johan Bernhardsson
On September 7, 2017 19:01:58 Christopher Cox wrote: Any links or ideas appreciated, oVirt is NOT VMware. But if you do things "well" oVirt works quite well. Follow the list to see folks that didn't necessarily do things "well" (sad, but true). I inherited this

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread Christopher Cox
On 09/07/2017 06:33 AM, david caughey wrote: Hi Folks, 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. Could be hard to sell. It's not like VMware (all in all) is deficient

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 2:33 PM, david caughey wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> 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

Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread Yaniv Kaul
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 2:33 PM, david caughey wrote: > Hi Folks, > > 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. > Good luck! > If you could help with the

[ovirt-users] ovirt high points

2017-09-07 Thread david caughey
Hi Folks, 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. If you could help with the below questions I would really appreciate it: Who are the big users of oVirt?? Why oVirt and not