KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management
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Which XCP-ng has a gluster layer solution of their own now as well. Though I don't know if it's available as an OSS approach.
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@DustinB3403 said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:
@matteo-nunziati said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:
@DustinB3403 it is like putting XO in a VM inside xcp. The major difference here is the gluster layer.
Which a lot of people do all of the time. Could you install it as bare metal on a separate host, absolutely. Should you, meh depends on what you need.
You can do the same with ovirt. The gluster layer is for redundancy. In a First lab you can directly put ovirt into a single Vm into a single node.
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@matteo-nunziati said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:
@DustinB3403 said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:
@matteo-nunziati said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:
@DustinB3403 it is like putting XO in a VM inside xcp. The major difference here is the gluster layer.
Which a lot of people do all of the time. Could you install it as bare metal on a separate host, absolutely. Should you, meh depends on what you need.
You can do the same with ovirt. The gluster layer is for redundancy. In a First lab you can directly put ovirt into a single Vm into a single node.
Just mind you have to put the orchestrator in a special state before node reboot. I didn't figured this out at the time and after the first reboot everything gone nuts.
I Abandoned the idea in favor of virtmanager + vanilla kvm. -
Red Hat has 2 (well, actually 4) products that manage KVM. The main ones are RHV/oVirt and RHOS/RDO (their Openstack distribution).
Besides these two there is the localhost-oriented libvirt with virt-manager, cockpit and boxes, and kubernetes oriented kubevirt.
So if you're looking for a vCenter cluster replacement, RHV is what you should be looking at (or if you prefer the less stable opensource version - oVirt). If you want to build something larger, at the scale of AWS, you need Openstack. For local stuff, e.g. virtualbox - virt-manager, boxes, and eventually cockpit will do the job, and if you want to run a VM in a k8s pod - kubevirt is for you.
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@scottalanmiller RHV now, after a rebrand in 2016-ish
