I hope this doesn't seem too far off topic. In my current position we are a vmware shop. With a few dozen machines in a handful of clusters, multipath fibrechannel storage, lots of live migrations, etc.
In my past position, I did everything on Fedora with the help of virsh, guestfish and all their friends, and life was very good. I could provision machines with virt-install and koan. I could tweak the machine definitions in XML. I could login and get a vm console very easy. That environment was much smaller and all storage was essentially direct attached and there was no live migration. Moving to vmware has a few niceties, but feels encumbered. I now want to evaluate RHEV against vmware, but I'm immediately taken aback to see the need for a windows mgt console, and troubled by an apparent burying of the libvirt API with a user push towards a REST API. Maybe my perception is off. I'm going to RH Summit and will get some more education next week. Tools like guestfish and virsh are some of the drivers causing me to explore vmware alternatives. If RHEV occludes those tools I'm left wondering what do I get that I can't get from Fedora with an apparently more open toolset. Other than the long term support. What are others doing out there? How large have you scaled up a Fedora solution (libvirt, virt-manager, virsh, kvm)? Are you performing live migrations reliably? How do you feel about RHEV? Anyone coming to RH Summit? _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
