oVirt 
oVirt mobile
I particularly enjoy using a web browser to administer GUI appliances. In the case of oVirt, it does become a little painful to do the Chrome-zoom-click on my massive 4k Android phone. It appears the oVirt devs have also seen this pain point and have released an Android app to make adminstration easier on Android.
oVirt pitfalls
After you use something for a bit, you notice the issues associated with it. While oVirt has solved my pain points of high availability, there are a few which stand out.
Logging in
To log in to oVirt for administration, you visit the landing page of the oVirt-engine website. This is perfect - it means I can administr…
Converting Debian/Ubuntu to oVirt
oVirt 3.6 will have a better way to import virtual machines. In the mean time, here is the best method for getting an already made ova into oVirt. The example I am using is the open source log analyzer - graylog.
A prerequisite is the script located at Read more →
Converting VMs for oVirt
My existing Hyper-V infrastructure consisted of Windows, a few CentOS, and Debian/Ubuntu guests. The best method I found to importing into oVirt was using the virt-p2v disc. This required down time of the server (approx 3 hours per 100GB on gigabit backbone) and a dedicated Fedora o…
Planning the Deployment of oVirt
After I played with oVirt I needed to do several items:
- Migrate the oVirt engine to a new host
- Migrate the storage from a single NFS share to GlusterFS
- Move my VMs from Hyper-V to oVirt
- Test my setup
Migrate the oVirt Engine to a new host
This…
Switching from Hyper-V to oVirt
For quite some time I have heard that Hyper-V was a low player when it came to virtualization. It came with Windows and was the hypervisor of choice, but it had its limitations. In my environment, we had local storage and no clustering of hosts and consequently no high availability or fail over. This brought the first pain point - we need high avai…