On 06/17/2015 09:54 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:> Also ESX(i) is not CentOS related but is included in this post. > And what about oVirt?MMmmm, I really thought ESX was in some way a RHEL derivative but when reading http://www.v-front.de/2013/08/a-myth-busted-and-faq-esxi-is-not-based.html it is clearly not... Anyway, I learnt a new thing today ;-) oVirt, in my opinion, is a bit harder to implement: basic usage seems to require at least 2 servers, according to http://www.ovirt.org/Quick_Start_Guide#Prerequisites There is an oVirt mailing list where you can ask specific questions: http://www.ovirt.org/Mailing_lists I would add XenServer to the list, which is currently my favorite, BUT it misses a Linux management interface http://xenserver.org/overview-xenserver-open-source-virtualization/source-code.html (I let you read what is the upstream ;-) )
regardless of all that noise, in RHEL and therefore CentOS, KVM is the preferred and best supported hypervisor. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
It's so sad that centos is using very old versio on kvm and due that fact live backup without downtime is not possible. Anyway, virtsh+virtmanager + kvm is good choice. -- Eero 2015-06-17 11:10 GMT+03:00 John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>:> regardless of all that noise, in RHEL and therefore CentOS, KVM is the > preferred and best supported hypervisor. > > -- > john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On 06/17/2015 11:10 AM, John R Pierce wrote:> regardless of all that noise, in RHEL and therefore CentOS, KVM is the > preferred and best supported hypervisor.I dont catch your point. The OP was wide enough in his question in order to allow that discussion. Anyway, I'll add one point: compatibility. In our example, we were heavily using VMware ESX and its VM format (at export) is not really supported for import by known solution. We ended at keeping "old" VMWare VMs on ESX and new ones on XenServer. Have you got any tool that could satisfy a vmdk to some more friandly format migration?