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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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      @stacksofplates said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

      @scottalanmiller said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

      @stacksofplates said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

      I don't use their stuff, I just use the cli because I can automate that with Ansible or Terraform or whatever, but I'd love to have a REST API for bare KVM. Doesn't even need a GUI, it would just make interacting with systems so much easier.

      I find it surprising that there is much concern for this on smaller scale systems like where this would be common. A really nice feature enhancement, to be sure, but surprised to see it as something many people would care about.

      It would make writing interactions with it much easier and make smaller scale systems much easier to manage and more popular.

      Firecracker is a great example of using KVM with an API first mindset.

      Oh I like the idea, for sure. And have ideas of where we could use it. But we tend to be an outlyer on that stuff.

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      • black3dynamiteB
        black3dynamite @JasGot
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        @JasGot said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

        @scottalanmiller said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

        @JasGot said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

        Easily managed from a remote location, either through NAT in a firewall, or directly - through a VPN.

        KVM really shines here. I've not seen anything come close.

        Which Linux do you prefer to use for KVM installs?

        If you want to use Cockpit to manage your KVM, I preferred Fedora just because it always gets the latest version of Cockpit.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
          last edited by

          @black3dynamite said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

          @JasGot said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

          @scottalanmiller said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

          @JasGot said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

          Easily managed from a remote location, either through NAT in a firewall, or directly - through a VPN.

          KVM really shines here. I've not seen anything come close.

          Which Linux do you prefer to use for KVM installs?

          If you want to use Cockpit to manage your KVM, I preferred Fedora just because it always gets the latest version of Cockpit.

          Good point, and certainly part of what we are doing.

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          • travisdh1T
            travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

            @VoIP_n00b said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

            Proxmox

            Been a long time. Giving it a try now that they (the company) have been silent and behaving well for so long. Seeing if maybe they just had a bad week or something.

            Are they still insisting that software RAID is an unusable technology?

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            • black3dynamiteB
              black3dynamite @travisdh1
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              @travisdh1 said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

              @scottalanmiller said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

              @VoIP_n00b said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

              Proxmox

              Been a long time. Giving it a try now that they (the company) have been silent and behaving well for so long. Seeing if maybe they just had a bad week or something.

              Are they still insisting that software RAID is an unusable technology?

              Supported configuration hardware raid and zfs raid during the installation.
              https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Software_RAID

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @black3dynamite
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                @black3dynamite said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                @travisdh1 said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                @scottalanmiller said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                @VoIP_n00b said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                Proxmox

                Been a long time. Giving it a try now that they (the company) have been silent and behaving well for so long. Seeing if maybe they just had a bad week or something.

                Are they still insisting that software RAID is an unusable technology?

                Supported configuration hardware raid and zfs raid during the installation.
                https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Software_RAID

                So it is, as long as you're using ZFS and not specifically mdadm.

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                • travisdh1T
                  travisdh1 @DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  @DustinB3403 said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                  @black3dynamite said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                  @travisdh1 said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                  @VoIP_n00b said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                  Proxmox

                  Been a long time. Giving it a try now that they (the company) have been silent and behaving well for so long. Seeing if maybe they just had a bad week or something.

                  Are they still insisting that software RAID is an unusable technology?

                  Supported configuration hardware raid and zfs raid during the installation.
                  https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Software_RAID

                  So it is, as long as you're using ZFS and not specifically mdadm.

                  bah

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                  • J
                    JasGot
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                    I appreciate all the very informative and valuable input. I have downloaded Ubuntu 19.10 and Proxmox 6.1

                    I'll give them both some attention today and see which I prefer.

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                    • dafyreD
                      dafyre @JasGot
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                      @JasGot said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors:

                      I appreciate all the very informative and valuable input. I have downloaded Ubuntu 19.10 and Proxmox 6.1

                      I'll give them both some attention today and see which I prefer.

                      I'm running KVM on Ubuntu 19.10... and am migrating from KVM on Linux Mint 18.3 (my home server(s)).

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                        Mario Jakovina @JasGot
                        last edited by Mario Jakovina

                        @JasGot In my company, we use XCP-ng on 4 small hosts with maybe 10 VMs on them (2 Win RDP servers, few Linux fileservers...). We manage them with XCP-ng center (Windows app) in LAN and with Xen Orchestra remotely. We are very satisfied with XCP and management is pretty simple. We are no experts but beginners.
                        We cloned some VMs, copied them from host to host, added additoinal storage after installation...

                        I tried to install KVM few times and I find it confusing to setup and manage.

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