@Obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:
Odd. I got it up and running very easily not very long ago.
getting it up and running isn't hard. Getting it up and running in a disparate, broad, centrally managed way is hard. That's basically my point over and over - if you use it in one very specific way it's easy and does a great job (isolated, HA-focused, low performance clusters) and if you use it in any other way (enterprise multi-purpose workloads or similar) it doesn't work well. Now it's stated that it's not meant to work that way, and that's fine, but it's also pushed for those cases, when obviously it shouldn't.
Basically, you can see that lots of people see it as a pet project and want to promote it for everything, and act like you need to change your entire business to fit around oVirt, rather than having a tool that fits around real world workload needs. If oVirt was promoted more clearly for very niche use cases, it would not come across the same way.
Here is the stated case: "oVirt is an open-source distributed virtualization solution, designed to manage your entire enterprise infrastructure." Obviously, as people have pointed out, this is total crap. It's meant only for very niche workloads within any large business, and only for extremely isolated small businesses for whom all workloads fit into that niche.
The issue isn't oVirt as a techology, but oVirt as it is being promoted. It seems a lot like FreeNAS, but not quite as bad. basically a big cult following that are pushing it recklessly by ignoring the use cases and acting like it's a magic box that fixes all needs like it's not a real world system or something. FreeNAS always overstates its case, in the real world, it's essentially useless. oVirt seems way better than that, but nowhere near the universal tool it promotes itself, and others promote it as being.
