<html><head></head><body><div>There's some export capabilities that I can't recall the name of right now (it'll wake me at 2am).</div><div><br></div><div>AH! virt-v2v!</div><div><br></div><div>I used that some time back to capture VMs off a vmware esx setup and pull them over to ovirt. It requires the VM be powered down. Easier way is to make a snapshot, convert to a new VM and pull that, then rsync from old to new. For some reason people think uptime matters and I'm supposed to care about it (on systems that have not been rebooted in 300+ days - security warts and all - can't "afford" the downtime - <sigh>).</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 10:29 -0400, James Taylor wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>I finally have a working ovirt system after many false starts.
I like it well enough to take the leap, and feel pretty confident I can now successfully install and manage a cluster.
Not hard , but many gotchas that are not immediately obvious.
A ton of documentation that didn't have answers for, or even mention, the issues that hung me up.
Initial problems were mostly self-inflicted.
Currently have two production workloads running. Now I need to see if migrating from citrix will work instead of having to recreate.
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Ovirt for the win!
Sadly, vmware is the dominant player. Ovirt is pretty amazing and fully open source. Perfect? Nope. But what large pile of software is?
KVM is rock solid in my experience. Ovirt adds a scale up and out management layer on top. The hardware it supports is anything that will run Linux. It's pretty RedHat centric (major funder) but also has packages and community (developer actually) support for use in any distro.
Will ovirt expertise help job development? Only if it can be spun the same way that Samba expertise makes better windows admins.
Oh. Automatic migration of encrypted drive VMs is non-working thing. Got bit. Ouch. During a demo. Double ouch. New host starts new instance, pauses, overlays old instance memory, pauses old and unpauses new. Can't start new with a locked drive to start process. Process continues anyway on shutting down old instance. Demo goes down. Ouch.
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SATA controllers are supported, but not all of them. ESXi is picky
about
hardware. Back when I ran it, only 1 of my 5 machines had a disk
controller
that was supported by it. It is also picky about NICs and other HW.
This is good and bad. Flakey HW doesn't get supported, so when it is
on "the
list" you know it should work. They choose very popular, server-type,
hardware
for their support. Usually not the cheapest stuff.
Catch me at a meeting on Sunday and I'll happily share some apparently
forgotten
history with VMware (management) and why I'll avoid all their products
for the
rest of my life.
If you mainly run Windows, ESXi should be considered. If you mainly
run Linux,
I wouldn't ... and don't.
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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