[ale] ovirt is rapidly losing it's charm

[James Taylor]

One of the frustrations with Citrix XenServer is, although it is based
onopensource Xen, the vm format is entirely different, and is a pain if
you have appliances that aren't built for it, or if you want to migrate
in & out.
And of course, appliance genrally don't get built for it until last, if
at all.
-jt
 
 
>>> "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale" <ale at ale.org> 5/4/2018 2:44 PM >>> 
XenServer is the Citrix-owned/influenced bare metal distribution that
installs similar to VMware ESXi.  It is based on the Xen project, which
can be used standalone with certain Linux distributions (similar to
KVM).  SUSE and Oracle are the main ones offering it, now.
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu

On 5/4/18, 1:41 PM, "Kyle Brieden" <kyle at txmoose.com> wrote:

    I ran XenServer.... or Xen something or other... Xen 4.4 I think?  

    Anyway, I ran Xen for probably 4 or 5 years.  Was super stable,
never 
    had any issues with it, but it was ... well Xen is the Gentoo of 
    hypervisors.  There's so many knobs to twiddle and buttons to push,
and 
    you have to really get under the hood for it.
    
    Last month, I transitioned my home server to ProxMox.  I feel like
it 
    fits the "Poor Man's VMware Cluster" shoes VERY well.  I am quite 
    pleased with it, and I can't wait to build a new desktop rig so
that I 
    can transition my current one to node02 role and actually get into

    clustering with ProxMox.
    
    ---
    Very respectfully,
    Kyle Brieden
    
    On 04-05-2018 12:19, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
    > I know it seems to have fallen out of favor, but XenServer is
still
    > available.  Put it together with the free version of Xen
Orchestra,
    > and you have a "poor man's VMware cluster".
    > Allen B.
    > 
    > --
    > Allen Beddingfield
    > Systems Engineer
    > Office of Information Technology
    > The University of Alabama
    > Office 205-348-2251
    > allen at ua.edu
    > 
    > On 5/4/18, 11:17 AM, "Ale on behalf of James Taylor via Ale"
    > <ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of ale at ale.org> wrote:
    > 
    >     I finally got an ovirt cluster installed, and even have a few
VMs
    > running on it, but the entire management interface was changed in
the
    > 4.x releases, and every time I try to find documentation,
everything
    > refers to the previous interfaces, and it doesn't apply.
    >     I've wasted a ridiculous amount of time on this, and I think
I'm
    > going to punt it and start over with another solution, as soon as
find
    > something more manageable.
    >     I suppose if you wanted ti use it to run a bunch of Red Hat
VMs,
    > it's great, but I have a lot of different platforms to support,
and
    > it's just too much of a pain to get going with it.
    >     -jt
    > 
    > 
    > 
    >     James Taylor
    >     678-697-9420
    >     james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
    > 
    > 
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