libvirt users - Feb 2018 - Re: Virtualization Management Platforms

Hey All,

Curious about the best, easy to use virtualization management platform 
for small labs of 30-40 physical servers.

Looking for something that's relatively simple to operate, install and 
lightweight but with enough maturity to provide monitoring as well as 
holistic views of the entire physical space etc.

Hearing of oVirt, Xen and Eucalyptus to name a few but wondering what 
other options do I have for a small physical space?

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Cheers,
Tom K.

On 09/02/18 9:17 AM, TomK wrote:
> Looking for something that's relatively simple to operate, install and 
> lightweight but with enough maturity to provide monitoring as well as 
> holistic views of the entire physical space etc.
virt-manager will fall in simple and lightweight category.
You can connect to multiple hypervisors via SSH from one single window.

https://virt-manager.org

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Prasad

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 10:14:28AM +0530, Prasad K
wrote:
> On 09/02/18 9:17 AM, TomK wrote:
> > Looking for something that's relatively simple to operate, install
and
> > lightweight but with enough maturity to provide monitoring as well as
> > holistic views of the entire physical space etc.
> virt-manager will fall in simple and lightweight category.
> You can connect to multiple hypervisors via SSH from one single window.
> 
> https://virt-manager.org
I wouldn't particularly recommend virt-manager once you go above 10
hosts. The UI design isn't well tailored to manging many 100's of VMs,
and the underlying RPC protocol is synchronous and point-to-point, so
doesn't scale to well as hosts are added either.

I think 30-40 hosts is large enough to justify considering a more serious
VM management app like oVirt or OpenStack.

Regards,
Daniel
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