[ale] oVirt anyone?

[Jim Kinney]

Look for the "All in one" documentation. While Ovirt is designed for large
scale, multiple machine environments, it also works well as a single
machine host with a spiffy web GUI for management.
On Jul 29, 2014 10:22 AM, "Derek Atkins" <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> I was looking at migrating to oVirt (I currently run vmware-server).  My
> main complaint about oVirt is its Master/Slave methodology.  I currently
> have a single box that I'd like to run as both the admin platform and
> the VM host (and also a few other services on the host platform), but as
> far as I could tell there was no way to configure oVirt this way.  Maybe
> it's changed in the past few years since I last looked?
>
> Basically right now I have one big server with lots of disk, memory, and
> CPU (granted, acquired ~4-5 years ago, but still viable for my use).  I
> don't want to replace hardware when what I have "works".  Although I
> would kind of like to freshen the software on it, as the current system
> is a little long in the tooth.
>
> -derek
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