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    • stacksofplatesS
      stacksofplates @IRJ
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      @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

      @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

      @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

      The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

      Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

      It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

      Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        I think you are trying to repeat the old "Windows has more support than Linux" argument, which is obviously well known to be untrue. The market hires loads more Windows people than it does Linux, more people purport to work on Windows than Linux, and we all know how that works out. Your list shows exactly what I'm talking about. VMware has the volume of listings... this tells us how people think that they need to hire, or what they want. Tells literally nothing of what is available.

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          1337 @stacksofplates
          last edited by

          @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

          @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

          @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

          @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

          The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

          Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

          It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

          Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

          Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

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          • stacksofplatesS
            stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:

            think

            That's not apples to apples. One is support one is hiring engineers. Two different things.

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            • stacksofplatesS
              stacksofplates @stacksofplates
              last edited by

              @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

              @scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:

              think

              That's not apples to apples. One is support one is hiring engineers. Two different things.

              No idea why this quoted so weird.

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates @1337
                last edited by

                @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                All of the above.

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                • IRJI
                  IRJ @stacksofplates
                  last edited by

                  @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                  @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                  @scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:

                  think

                  That's not apples to apples. One is support one is hiring engineers. Two different things.

                  No idea why this quoted so weird.

                  "Just because something may be supported, doesn't imply that it is support."

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                  • stacksofplatesS
                    stacksofplates @IRJ
                    last edited by

                    @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                    @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                    @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                    @scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:

                    think

                    That's not apples to apples. One is support one is hiring engineers. Two different things.

                    No idea why this quoted so weird.

                    "Just because something may be supported, doesn't imply that it is support."

                    😄

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                      1337 @stacksofplates
                      last edited by

                      @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                      @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                      @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                      @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                      @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                      @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                      The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                      Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                      It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                      Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                      Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                      All of the above.

                      OK, thanks.

                      But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?

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                      • IRJI
                        IRJ @1337
                        last edited by

                        @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                        @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                        @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                        @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                        @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                        @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                        @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                        The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                        Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                        It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                        Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                        Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                        All of the above.

                        OK, thanks.

                        But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?

                        Openshift is on azure now

                        https://cloud.redhat.com/products/azure-openshift

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                          1337 @IRJ
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                          @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                          @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                          @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                          @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                          @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                          @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                          @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                          @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                          The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                          Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                          It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                          Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                          Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                          All of the above.

                          OK, thanks.

                          But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?

                          Openshift is on azure now

                          https://cloud.redhat.com/products/azure-openshift

                          Yes, Red Hat says you can install and run it on:

                          • your laptop
                          • public cloud - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Coming soon: IBM Cloud, Ali Cloud
                          • your datacenter
                          • managed by Red Hat

                          https://developers.redhat.com/products/openshift/download

                          I haven't used it though but it would be fun to look into. I always thought you needed a huge infrastructure just to run it.

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                          • stacksofplatesS
                            stacksofplates @1337
                            last edited by

                            @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                            @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                            @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                            @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                            @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                            @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                            @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                            The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                            Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                            It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                            Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                            Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                            All of the above.

                            OK, thanks.

                            But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?

                            I don't know anyone running RHEV. I also don't know anyone actually running openatack. I'm sure there are a few but it's hardly the norm.

                            Openshift may use libvirt underneath with kubevirt but I think most are just running containers. I don't know too many places running openshift either over just k8s.

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                            • ObsolesceO
                              Obsolesce @IRJ
                              last edited by

                              @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                              @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                              @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                              @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                              @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                              @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                              @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                              @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                              The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                              Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                              It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                              Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                              Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                              All of the above.

                              OK, thanks.

                              But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?

                              Openshift is on azure now

                              https://cloud.redhat.com/products/azure-openshift

                              And I bet the APIs, Monitoring, Auditing, ability to integrate services, etc. is fantastic.

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                              • stacksofplatesS
                                stacksofplates
                                last edited by

                                Here's one example of why KVM isnt more popular than it is. I love how KVM does snapshotting. I can create thousands of snapshots off of a metadata preallocated qcow2 image because it's reallocate on write and not copy on write. You would incur almost no performance hit up to a few thousand snapshots. But who works that way anymore? If you have the experience to automate reallocated snapshots and block commit them back to the base, you have the expertise to just create ephemeral systems and not use snapshots at all. Then you turn your expertise to automation of more important things. It's good at what it does, but when you have the expertise to leverage it at that level, you don't need it anymore.

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                                  1337 @stacksofplates
                                  last edited by

                                  @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                  @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                                  @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                  @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                                  @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                  @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                                  @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                                  @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                  The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                                  Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                                  It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                                  Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                                  Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                                  All of the above.

                                  OK, thanks.

                                  But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?

                                  I don't know anyone running RHEV. I also don't know anyone actually running openatack. I'm sure there are a few but it's hardly the norm.

                                  Openshift may use libvirt underneath with kubevirt but I think most are just running containers. I don't know too many places running openshift either over just k8s.

                                  There are 4000+ jobs on linkedin in the US when searching for openstack.
                                  8000+ jobs when searching for openshift. And I see companies such as Bank of America, Citi, Delta Air Lines, Federal Reserve etc. So I'm guessing it's in use for sure.

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                                  • IRJI
                                    IRJ @1337
                                    last edited by

                                    @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                    The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                                    Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                                    It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                                    Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                                    Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                                    All of the above.

                                    OK, thanks.

                                    But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?

                                    I don't know anyone running RHEV. I also don't know anyone actually running openatack. I'm sure there are a few but it's hardly the norm.

                                    Openshift may use libvirt underneath with kubevirt but I think most are just running containers. I don't know too many places running openshift either over just k8s.

                                    There are 4000+ jobs on linkedin in the US when searching for openstack.
                                    8000+ jobs when searching for openshift. And I see companies such as Bank of America, Citi, Delta Air Lines, Federal Reserve etc. So I'm guessing it's in use for sure.

                                    Yeah some companies associated with the government are looking at openshift now. The problem they are facing in testing it is lack of talent.

                                    There's 69k+ kubernetes jobs available in kubernetes. Even so kubernetes engineers are hard to find

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                                    • stacksofplatesS
                                      stacksofplates @1337
                                      last edited by stacksofplates

                                      @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      @pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      @irj said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                      The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.

                                      Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.

                                      It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.

                                      Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.

                                      Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?

                                      All of the above.

                                      OK, thanks.

                                      But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?

                                      I don't know anyone running RHEV. I also don't know anyone actually running openatack. I'm sure there are a few but it's hardly the norm.

                                      Openshift may use libvirt underneath with kubevirt but I think most are just running containers. I don't know too many places running openshift either over just k8s.

                                      There are 4000+ jobs on linkedin in the US when searching for openstack.
                                      8000+ jobs when searching for openshift. And I see companies such as Bank of America, Citi, Delta Air Lines, Federal Reserve etc. So I'm guessing it's in use for sure.

                                      That's not really that many positions. And that's not a great metric because a lot are most likely repeats and are possibly just anscillary tech knowledge. "Must understand hypervisors: VMware, openstack, xenserver, etc"

                                      I'm not saying they aren't used but they aren't popular.

                                      Edit because openatack isn't a thing.

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                                      • stacksofplatesS
                                        stacksofplates
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                                        Plus even with things like openshift, kubevirt is doing any KVM work for you. You need 0 KVM expertise to let Kubernetes manage your hypervisor/VMs.

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                                        • JaredBuschJ
                                          JaredBusch @stacksofplates
                                          last edited by

                                          @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                          Plus even with things like openshift, kubevirt is doing any KVM work for you. You need 0 KVM expertise to let Kubernetes manage your hypervisor/VMs.

                                          You also need 0 KVM experience to run Proxmox.

                                          @stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

                                          Also, Proxmox doesn't count as KVM expertise in case that's the angle you're trying to use here.

                                          @scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:

                                          While I never implied it, it absolutely does. That's like saying that working with vSphere doesn't count as VMware experience.
                                          In fact, as Jared was saying, you always deploy with management suites.

                                          You do as I say and deploy management suites because the SMB sector does not know jack shit about what they are doing. If they did, you would not have a job fixing their broke ass shit.

                                          Most of the user posts you see about Proxmox never even mention KVM unless someone really fucked shit up.

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                                          • JaredBuschJ
                                            JaredBusch
                                            last edited by JaredBusch

                                            @scottalanmiller you are out of touch. You have not had a real job in years, and your big business job was more than a decade ago.

                                            I know I am out of touch, I do keep minor reading on tools and processes though. Even if I am unable to implement them or truly learn them. But your blatant refusal to admit as much and update yourself is clearly showing.

                                            Sure, lots of the SMB mediocrity is still all about the local virtualization. Hell, I still see physical servers on occasion.

                                            But that is not where things are moving.

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