Testing oVirt...

Alex Sage

Obsolesce

I've loosey been reading the posts on this but what is oVirt? Is it just a management thing for KVM or is it and KVM based hypervisor in it's self?

It's a cloud infrastructure software, I'd call it a cloud stack but there's a product named that... it's a competitor of OpenStack or Apache's CloudStack.

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in Testing oVirt...:

I've loosey been reading the posts on this but what is oVirt? Is it just a management thing for KVM or is it and KVM based hypervisor in it's self?

It's KVM management. It is not cloud, nor a hypervisor. Just a management console.

scottalanmiller

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@hobbit666 said in Testing oVirt...:

I've loosey been reading the posts on this but what is oVirt? Is it just a management thing for KVM or is it and KVM based hypervisor in it's self?

It's a cloud infrastructure software, I'd call it a cloud stack but there's a product named that... it's a competitor of OpenStack or Apache's CloudStack.

It's not a cloud, nor a stack. It's only one layer of a virtualization management "stack". The stacks include the storage, storage management, virtualization management, cloud components, etc. This is only the one piece. It lacks the pieces necessary to be cloud (autoprovisioning and API based access.)

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@hobbit666 said in Testing oVirt...:

I've loosey been reading the posts on this but what is oVirt? Is it just a management thing for KVM or is it and KVM based hypervisor in it's self?

It's a cloud infrastructure software, I'd call it a cloud stack but there's a product named that... it's a competitor of OpenStack or Apache's CloudStack.

It's not a cloud, nor a stack. It's only one layer of a virtualization management "stack". The stacks include the storage, storage management, virtualization management, cloud components, etc. This is only the one piece. It lacks the pieces necessary to be cloud (autoprovisioning and API based access.)

It does have API based access and just because autoprovisioning isn't ready to go out of the box, doesn't mean it can't. You can easily create scripts that autoprovision resources and for example, VPSs using the API.

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:

It's not a cloud, nor a stack. It's only one layer of a virtualization management "stack".

I'll agree to this.

scottalanmiller

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

It does have API based access and just because autoprovisioning isn't ready to go out of the box, doesn't mean it can't. You can easily create scripts that autoprovision resources and for example, VPSs using the API.

I looked up the API and it looked like it was just for monitoring. They have a full provisioning API now?

scottalanmiller

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@hobbit666 said in Testing oVirt...:

I've loosey been reading the posts on this but what is oVirt? Is it just a management thing for KVM or is it and KVM based hypervisor in it's self?

It's a cloud infrastructure software, I'd call it a cloud stack but there's a product named that... it's a competitor of OpenStack or Apache's CloudStack.

It's not a cloud, nor a stack. It's only one layer of a virtualization management "stack". The stacks include the storage, storage management, virtualization management, cloud components, etc. This is only the one piece. It lacks the pieces necessary to be cloud (autoprovisioning and API based access.)

It does have API based access and just because autoprovisioning isn't ready to go out of the box, doesn't mean it can't. You can easily create scripts that autoprovision resources and for example, VPSs using the API.

Sure, all virtualization can be used to build cloud. But until you've built the cloud, what you have isn't cloud yet. Like Xen or KVM can be the power behind a cloud deployment. So can oVirt. But until the other pieces are there, they are still just building blocks, not the whole themselves.

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@hobbit666 said in Testing oVirt...:

I've loosey been reading the posts on this but what is oVirt? Is it just a management thing for KVM or is it and KVM based hypervisor in it's self?

It's a cloud infrastructure software, I'd call it a cloud stack but there's a product named that... it's a competitor of OpenStack or Apache's CloudStack.

It's not a cloud, nor a stack. It's only one layer of a virtualization management "stack". The stacks include the storage, storage management, virtualization management, cloud components, etc. This is only the one piece. It lacks the pieces necessary to be cloud (autoprovisioning and API based access.)

It does have API based access and just because autoprovisioning isn't ready to go out of the box, doesn't mean it can't. You can easily create scripts that autoprovision resources and for example, VPSs using the API.

Sure, all virtualization can be used to build cloud. But until you've built the cloud, what you have isn't cloud yet. Like Xen or KVM can be the power behind a cloud deployment. So can oVirt. But until the other pieces are there, they are still just building blocks, not the whole themselves.

I've only used and tested it in the context of being a cloud stack. Perhaps I'd be better off then with an actual cloud stack.

Thanks for the clarification.

scottalanmiller

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

@hobbit666 said in Testing oVirt...:

I've loosey been reading the posts on this but what is oVirt? Is it just a management thing for KVM or is it and KVM based hypervisor in it's self?

It's a cloud infrastructure software, I'd call it a cloud stack but there's a product named that... it's a competitor of OpenStack or Apache's CloudStack.

It's not a cloud, nor a stack. It's only one layer of a virtualization management "stack". The stacks include the storage, storage management, virtualization management, cloud components, etc. This is only the one piece. It lacks the pieces necessary to be cloud (autoprovisioning and API based access.)

It does have API based access and just because autoprovisioning isn't ready to go out of the box, doesn't mean it can't. You can easily create scripts that autoprovision resources and for example, VPSs using the API.

Sure, all virtualization can be used to build cloud. But until you've built the cloud, what you have isn't cloud yet. Like Xen or KVM can be the power behind a cloud deployment. So can oVirt. But until the other pieces are there, they are still just building blocks, not the whole themselves.

I've only used and tested it in the context of being a cloud stack. Perhaps I'd be better off then with an actual cloud stack.

Thanks for the clarification.

What cloud system did you use it as a part of?

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:

@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:

It does have API based access and just because autoprovisioning isn't ready to go out of the box, doesn't mean it can't. You can easily create scripts that autoprovision resources and for example, VPSs using the API.

I looked up the API and it looked like it was just for monitoring. They have a full provisioning API now?

Yeah. I think they've had it for quite a while.

https://www.ovirt.org/develop/api/rest-api/rest-api/

FATeknollogee

All the previous screenshots were from the Admin portal.
This is from the VM portal:

FATeknollogee

From the VM portal, create vm:

Alex Sage

@fateknollogee Are you using this in production or lab?

Can't wait for 4.2.7!

FATeknollogee

@aaronstuder said in Testing oVirt...:

@fateknollogee Are you using this in production or lab?

Can't wait for 4.2.7!

Lab for now.
Hoping for production once I'm comfortable!

FATeknollogee

@aaronstuder said in Testing oVirt...:

@fateknollogee Are you using this in production or lab?

Can't wait for 4.2.7!

In the next couple of weeks, I'm going to tear down the lab & do a 100% rebuild....all oVirt

Alex Sage

@fateknollogee What's your lab look like?

FATeknollogee

@aaronstuder said in Testing oVirt...:

@fateknollogee What's your lab look like?

Just server hardware or networking gear also?

Alex Sage

@fateknollogee All of it!

FATeknollogee

@aaronstuder said in Testing oVirt...:

@fateknollogee All of it!

Internet:
FIOS: 150/150

Firewall/Router:
Meraki MX 84

Switches:
1x Meraki MS320P-24
3x Meraki MS220-48
2x Mellanox SX6036

NICs:
Mellanox ConnectX-3 (to be used w 56Gbe)
Mellanox ConnectX-4 (to be used for 100Gbe)
Intel 10Gbe

Servers:
2x SuperMicro 2027TR-HTRF
2x SuperMicro SC216E16-R1200
3x SuperMicro 5018D-FN4T
2x SuperMicro SYS1028-WTRT

UPS:
1x Eaton 5PX3000RT2U
2x Eaton 5PX EBM72