[ale] oVirt anyone?

[Jim Kinney]

Ovirt will automatically migrate to balance things. That works best (only?)
with the iSCSI storage domain so only the running processes move and
storage is unchanged. Which makes sense.

Ideal test is with 3 machines, 1 is head and iSCSI  storage the other two
are hosts. Web gui is pretty nice. Uses spice plugin for console access. So
console will pass USB and sound. I was floored when a windows VM had it's
login music playing over my VPN access. :-)


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> It is functional, but a bit more clunky to use than the VI client.  The
> BIG issue I have with it:  It requires Flash AND a plugins.  The plugin
> works on Linux with no problem, though.  I use Chromium + Pepper Flash +
> the plugin.  It will also work with Firefox, if you load up the latest
> Flash that Adobe released.
> So, it handles balancing the workload, similar to VMware DRS?
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
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> Subject: Re: [ale] oVirt anyone?
>
> I will have to look again at the vmware gui. The last web thing I saw was
> basically broken. It's been a long time since I looked.
>
> I doubt Ovirt will support anything besides KVM as virt service. It is
> possible to pull existing VMs into Ovirt using a chain of conversion tools.
> Pulling a VMWare VM requires the VM to be powered off, root password to the
> vmware host and vmware name of the VM itself. It will get copied and
> converted automagically.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>
> > VMware has actually ported their Windows-only stuff to a web GUI.  In
> 5.5,
> > that is the default, and you have to keep your VMs at an older hardware
> > level to still use the VI client.
> > oVirt looks nice...  I just wish it supported Xen or XenServer.
> > Allen B.
> > --
> > Allen Beddingfield
> > Systems Engineer
> > The University of Alabama
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney
> [
> > jim.kinney at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:53 AM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> > Subject: Re: [ale] oVirt anyone?
> >
> > I have multiple hosts tied to a single ovirt head and some standalone
> > head/host combo systems.
> >
> > It works. VMWare should be worried. They should also be porting their
> > windows only management console to web GUI as fast as possible.
> >
> > One Issue solved in next release is integration with IPA. 3.4 broke
> > something working in 3.2. 3.5 is in pre-release and is fixed. It allows
> > authenticated users to fully control their VMs power up and down and
> > provision new ones from templates up to their usage limits.
> >
> > The back end is KVM and is rock solid. Memory sharing and thin provision
> > storage are excellent.
> > On Jul 28, 2014 11:42 AM, "Preston" <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
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James P. Kinney III

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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