I first received news about the RHEV and OpenShift convergence from my Red Hat TAM at one of my jobs.
However, a quick search on Google produces this: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhev, which says, in part: Moving forward the RHV management feature set will be converged with OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization providing customers with requirements for containers and VMs a migration path and a common platform for deploying and managing both. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, April 3, 2021 4:52 AM, Timo Veith <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear David, > > do you have a link to that anouncement which you have referenced below "so > the announcement of RHV's (commercial) demise was poor timing for me“ > > Cheers > Timo > > > Am 02.04.2021 um 17:10 schrieb David White via Users [email protected]: > > I'm replying to Thomas's thread below, but am creating a new subject so as > > not to hijack the original thread. > > I'm sure that this topic has come up before. > > I first joined this list last fall, when I began planning and testing with > > oVirt, but as of the past few weeks, I'm paying closer attention to the > > mailing list now that I'm actually using oVirt and am getting ready to > > deploy to a production environment. > > I'll also try to jump in and help other people as time permits and as my > > experience grow. > > I echo Thomas's concerns here. While I'm thankful for Red Hat's gesture to > > allow people to use up to 16 Red Hat installs at no charge, I'm concerned > > about the longevity of oVirt, now that Red Hat is no longer going to > > support RHV going forward. > > What is the benefit to Red Hat / IBM of supporting this platform now that > > it is no longer being commercialized as a Red Hat product? What is to > > prevent Red Hat from pulling the plug on this project, similar to what > > happened to CentOS 8? > > As a user of oVirt (4.5, installed on Red Hat 8.3), how can I and others > > help to contribute to the project to ensure its longevity? Or should I > > really just go find an alternative in the future? (I had been planning to > > use oVirt for a while, and did some testing last fall, so the announcement > > of RHV's (commercial) demise was poor timing for me, because I don't have > > time to switch gears and change my plans to use something else, like > > Proxmox or something. > > From what I've seen, this is a great product, and I guess I can understand > > Red Hat's decision to pull the plug on the commercial project, now that > > OpenShift supports full VMs. But my understanding is that OpenShift is a > > lot more complicated and requires more resources. I really don't need a > > full kubernetes environment. I just need a stable virtualization platform. > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:44 PM, Thomas Hoberg [email protected] wrote: > > > > > I personally consider the fact that you gave up on 4.3/CentOS7 before > > > CentOS 8 could have even been remotely reliable to run "a free > > > open-source virtualization solution for your entire enterprise", a rather > > > violent break of trust. > > > > > I understand Redhat's motivation with Python 2/3 etc., but users just > > > don't. Please just try for a minute to view this from a user's > > > perspective. > > > > > With CentOS 7 supported until 2024, we naturally expect the added value > > > on top via oVirt to persist just as long. > > > > > And with CentOS 8 support lasting until the end of this year, oVirt 4.4 > > > can't be considered "Petrus" or a rock to build on. > > > > > Most of us run oVirt simply because we are most interested in the VMs it > > > runs (tenants paying rent). > > > > > We're not interested in keeping oVirt itself stable and from failing > > > after any update to the house of cards. > > > > > And yes, by now I am sorry to have chosen oVirt at all, finding that 4.3 > > > was abandonend before 4.4 or the CentOS 8 below was even stable and long > > > before the base OS ran out of support. > > > > > To the users out there oVirt is a platform, a tool, not a means to itself. > > > > <publickey - [email protected] - > > 0x320CD582.asc>_______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > > oVirt Code of Conduct: > > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > > List Archives: > > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IBWLTSCR5OSXYEI6M4O2DVZUODRUWQZY/ > > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UXUMNX46AGN5D3VXROSL6XX3FEGSHQF3/
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