What is everyone using to manage their virtualisation setup? Anyone using a pre-packaged management system like ConVirt, oVirt, Virt-Manager, etc? Everyone rolling their own management scripts? Something else? Right now, we're using our home-grown kvmctl script (as seen in the KVM wiki) to manage KVM-based VMs on Debian and Ubuntu Server. It's working ok, but limited to a single host, so there's no redundancy or shared storage or migration possible in our current setup. We want to move to a multi-tiered, SAN-based virtualisation setup, but can't find a VM management tool that handles both KVM and Xen (we have some old Opteron hardware that doesn't support SVM), and does not require Linux from end-to-end. For example, we want to run FreeBSD + ZFS on our storage servers, exporting storage via iSCSI (or NFS). We want to run a minimal Debian/Ubuntu install on the VM hosts (just to boot and run the management agents), with all of the VMs getting their storage via iSCSI. With a separate box acting as the management system. Preferably with a web-based management GUI, but that's more of an "nice to have" than a hard requirement. >From the research I've done into the VM management systems available for KVM/Xen, either Linux is required on every host (including the storage servers), or they don't support iSCSI (or off-server shared storage of any kind), or they require an X server installed, or they only support one of Xen/KVM, or they are geared toward managing a single server (desktop). So, if you have a setup similar to above (multiple physical servers, separate storage, etc), what are you using to manage it? Is it free, open-source, shareware, pay-ware, proprietary, abandonware, something else? So far, I've looked at: * Convirture 2.0 which looks pretty, but doesn't work with iSCSI, and the docs are all horribly out-of-date making it very hard to troubleshoot; * oVirt which requires Fedora/CentOS/RedHat on everything; * virt-manager which requires X and seems to be more desktop-oriented; * ProxMox which doesn't support Xen. What else is available? Where else should I be looking? Any suggestions on what to look at greatly appreciated. Any suggestions on how to improve our setup also greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
