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 purchases /
renewals / maintenance contract.
* The community support for oVirt ABSOLUTELY ROCKS
* If you are planning to do something with openstack in the short or
mid term, I think oVirt is a nice path to go.
o Integration with Glance / Cinder / Neutron is cool.
o The hypervisor is the same (KVM).
o I have successfully moved VM images to/from openstack and they
worked seamlessly.
o At the same time, the architecture is quite similar to VCenter,
and import of VMs from VMWare works pretty well .
* As the compute nodes (hosts) are mostly plain CentOS 7 it is much
easier to integrate them with whatever you have in place for
monitoring, configuration management, backup...
* The user portal with user quotas can work nicely as self-service for
users, depending on your needs.
* Version update procedures way less painful with oVirt than with VMWare.
* On the downside, I think that functionality-wise, VMWare still has
an edge, but oVirt is good-enough for a lot of use cases.
Eduardo Mayoral Jimeno (emayo...@arsys.es)
Administrador de sistemas. Departamento de Plataformas. Arsys internet.
+34 941 620 145 ext. 5153
On 07/09/17 13:33, 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.
> If you could help with the below questions I would really appreciate it:
>
> Who are the big users of oVirt??
>
> Why oVirt and not vMware??
> (we are a big vMware house so free doesn't cover it)
>
> What is the future for oVirt??
>
> Why do you use oVirt??
>
> Any links or ideas appreciated,
>
> BR/David
>
>
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