Open Virtualization.

zuphzuph · 2016-11-20T20:15:21.000Z

So I recently came across oVirt and wanted to share the resource. The documentation and tutorials on this product/service are really astounding. Something I hope I’ll be playing around with in the very near future.

oVirt

oVirt is a free open-source virtualization solution for your entire enterprise

Remember kids, always support the Open Source!

apsutcliffe · 2016-11-20T20:25:54.000Z

That looks interesting; might give it a go using the “Live Version” for online testing

bbigford · 2016-11-20T22:02:53.000Z

Pretty interesting. My initial impression was wondering what was the difference with this and KVM/XS or any other open source virtualization. But oVirt looks to give you a ton of control on the interconnecting fabric.

essjae · 2016-11-20T22:50:01.000Z

oVirt is powered by the Open Source you know - KVM on Linux

pbrain · 2016-11-21T00:38:09.000Z

Lab time!!!

gavins38 · 2016-11-21T15:24:18.000Z

Thanks for the info. Only had a quick scan of the website but it looks good. Can anyone tell me what the differences are between this and ProxMox? Both appear to be based on KVM and Open Linux Containers.

briancarlson2 · 2016-11-21T15:36:46.000Z

Thanks for the heads up!

aboushard · 2016-11-21T15:41:46.000Z

oVirt is the open source of Red Hat Virtualization. It is KVM. I am playing around with it in my home lab at the moment.

michaelwise2 · 2016-11-21T16:13:49.000Z

I’ve been running my company’s test lab on oVirt for about four months. Fairly straight forward to use once you’ve wrapped your head around the workflow, definitely makes it trivial to cookie-cut VMs and play with the copies. The last time I checked, it lacks the ability to designate a VM to be auto-started on reboot, which would be handy. Looking forward to more stable HCI implementations in the near future, though RH seems to be on that with their paid virtualization product.

sergeadam2359 · 2016-11-21T16:33:49.000Z

I had it here when I started. Works relatively well. Hardware drivers for Windows can be a bit hard to get and install.

VM level backups can be an issue.

shawnoconnor4 · 2016-11-21T16:49:42.000Z

yeah ovirt has gotten better over the years especially since the last 3yrs red hat has been giving it the same love and attention that RHEV gets minus the constant updates. but ovirt is most definatley production ready and capable. i have used it in many production environments that are still up today.

zuphzuph · 2016-11-21T16:56:42.000Z

PenguinWrangler:

oVirt is the open source of Red Hat Virtualization. It is KVM. I am playing around with it in my home lab at the moment.

What are your thoughts thus far?

@aboushard

seanwolsey · 2016-11-21T17:30:55.000Z

Looks interesting. I guess it’s time to fire up another host for a lab.

williamguzman2 · 2016-11-21T17:35:22.000Z

Interesting and will try it out at home.

jrammalaere · 2016-11-21T18:12:45.000Z

Thanks for the share.

aboushard · 2016-11-21T19:01:49.000Z

zuphzuph:

PenguinWrangler:

oVirt is the open source of Red Hat Virtualization. It is KVM. I am playing around with it in my home lab at the moment.

What are your thoughts thus far?

It is nice. For my clients though, I don’t know if it is worth it. I usually just run a basic KVM host and they are all very simple setups, fileservers, FOG server, etc, nothing complex. I know KVM and Linux enough that they are easy to manage. For bigger environments in which you don’t want to pay for VMware, and are not a Microsoft shop oVirt would be in contention, I believe. Since it is the open source of RHEV, you could get help from Redhat, (I believe) if you would want to pay for it, which is useful. I utilize Untangle at a lot of my clients which won’t virtualize nicely on Citrix Xenserver so I switched to KVM instead, and I was looking for a web interface for KVM which lead me to oVirt. I work with another guy who doesn’t have as much Linux/KVM experience so I was wanting to give him a web interface to work with, don’t know if it is needed though

zuphzuph · 2016-11-21T19:09:42.000Z

PenguinWrangler:

zuphzuph:

PenguinWrangler:

oVirt is the open source of Red Hat Virtualization. It is KVM. I am playing around with it in my home lab at the moment.

What are your thoughts thus far?

It is nice. For my clients though, I don’t know if it is worth it. I usually just run a basic KVM host and they are all very simple setups, fileservers, FOG server, etc, nothing complex. I know KVM and Linux enough that they are easy to manage. For bigger environments in which you don’t want to pay for VMware, and are not a Microsoft shop oVirt would be in contention, I believe. Since it is the open source of RHEV, you could get help from Redhat, (I believe) if you would want to pay for it, which is useful. I utilize Untangle at a lot of my clients which won’t virtualize nicely on Citrix Xenserver so I switched to KVM instead, and I was looking for a web interface for KVM which lead me to oVirt. I work with another guy who doesn’t have as much Linux/KVM experience so I was wanting to give him a web interface to work with, don’t know if it is needed though

Good information and I completely agree with the use case given. Thanks for sharing your take on it.

jamesholden8454 · 2016-11-21T19:30:46.000Z

PenguinWrangler:

zuphzuph:

PenguinWrangler:

oVirt is the open source of Red Hat Virtualization. It is KVM. I am playing around with it in my home lab at the moment.

What are your thoughts thus far?

It is nice. For my clients though, I don’t know if it is worth it. I usually just run a basic KVM host and they are all very simple setups, fileservers, FOG server, etc, nothing complex. I know KVM and Linux enough that they are easy to manage. For bigger environments in which you don’t want to pay for VMware, and are not a Microsoft shop oVirt would be in contention, I believe. Since it is the open source of RHEV, you could get help from Redhat, (I believe) if you would want to pay for it, which is useful. I utilize Untangle at a lot of my clients which won’t virtualize nicely on Citrix Xenserver so I switched to KVM instead, and I was looking for a web interface for KVM which lead me to oVirt. I work with another guy who doesn’t have as much Linux/KVM experience so I was wanting to give him a web interface to work with, don’t know if it is needed though

I too have been using the basic KVM for many years and have been thoroughly happy with it. Once you are comfortable with the underlying Linux distro, KVM itself is very easy to manage, very flexible, lightning fast, and has been DEAD stable for me. I’ve heard of oVirt, but haven’t tried it. I’ve also thought about trying XenServer as it seems to have become the open source favorite, but I’ve been so happy with KVM it’s hard for me to justify looking at something new.

rolandoorlando2 · 2016-11-21T20:02:42.000Z

Looks like fun

harrybaynes · 2016-11-21T20:09:50.000Z

KVM is an excellant hypervisor: more stable than VMware and Virtualbox with better USB intergration than VMware & Virtualbox. I’m pretty sure KVM guests will autostart on a host reboot if it is on a Centos 7 Host.