Hi,
I'm searching for "virtualization options". I already take a look on VMware, but it needs too much MS software to work for my needs. Citrix needs less, but the key validation is still MS-AD.
Now I'm taking a look at RHEV... and run into Oracle VM! Somebody had already take a look at Oracle VM?
We need in primary a solid VM solution for an "enterprise cloud" running on top of some old and new Dell servers in conjunction with an EMC Cx4-120 storage.
We had plans to provide "desktop virtualization" in the future, most to labs class, and maybe adminstrative tasks. But it isn't necessary now.
Anybody had some other options to tell?
Thanks in advance,
Antonio.
On 10/31/2012 01:40 PM, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote:
Hi,
I'm searching for "virtualization options". I already take a look on VMware, but it needs too much MS software to work for my needs. Citrix needs less, but the key validation is still MS-AD.
Now I'm taking a look at RHEV... and run into Oracle VM! Somebody had already take a look at Oracle VM?
We need in primary a solid VM solution for an "enterprise cloud" running on top of some old and new Dell servers in conjunction with an EMC Cx4-120 storage.
We had plans to provide "desktop virtualization" in the future, most to labs class, and maybe adminstrative tasks. But it isn't necessary now.
Anybody had some other options to tell?
Thanks in advance,
Antonio.
I use KVM on RHEL (not RHEV specifically) and the VMs (linux, windows, *bsd, solaris) are perform very well. I actually couple this to Red Hat's cluster suite and Linbit's DRBD to make the VMs highly available. I've got this setup in production in several locations around north america going back to when 6.0 was released, and it's been fantastic.
If you're interested, here is exactly how I do it;
https://alteeve.ca/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial
All open source (and free-as-in-beer on CentOS)!
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:40:05PM -0200, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote:
Hi,
I'm searching for "virtualization options". I already take a look on VMware, but it needs too much MS software to work for my needs. Citrix needs less, but the key validation is still MS-AD.
http://sweh.spuddy.org/Essays/Virtualization_options.html http://sweh.spuddy.org/Essays/Virtualization_update.html http://sweh.spuddy.org/Essays/Virtualization_allchange.html
I'm still using KVM, but using with kickstart rather than templates.
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Stephen Harris wrote:
I'm still using KVM, but using with kickstart rather than templates.
I switched from Xen (and, before that, VMware) to KVM about eighteen months or so ago just to see what the fuss was about, and have not looked back. I have since deployed about 75-80 virtual machines with KVM (Linux and Windows XP, 2003, 7) and have had zero problems; everything worked perfectly first time out and has continued that way. Performance is better too. I install Linux on a KVM guest using the same PXE+kickstart procedures that are used for physical boxes. I can expound further on my KVM likes if anyone is interested.
Steve
On 31.10.2012 17:40, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote:
Hi,
I'm searching for "virtualization options".
KVM+libvirt, definitely (+VirtManager as desktop GUI). It's a fantastic match. Might be worth looking at openstack, too, it's all the rage these days. It is also using kvm and libvirt.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior asmartins@uem.br wrote:
Hi,
I'm searching for "virtualization options". I already take a look on VMware, but it needs too much MS software to work for my needs. Citrix needs less, but the key validation is still MS-AD.
The latest VMware vSphere 5.1 supports plain LDAP and Web client. But yeah it's not 100% MS free.
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