Hi Lucian, Proxmox is a good product. Do you want to manage Proxmox cluster using cloudstack ? Proxmox VE can manage it pretty well.
btw, VM HA on KVM (based on NFS) is working well on our productions. -Wei On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 10:09, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > Hi Wido, > > When you put it like that it does seem like a pointless exercise, but > the devil is the details. > > - very up to date kvm/kernel some may seek for various features > > - good CEPH integration in their UI/api(?), no command line needed, and > if you buy the product they will actually support it (quite affordable) > > - excellent ZFS implementation, the kind you can't have with Cloudstack > (they don't host qcow files on zfs, but use zvols). Good performance, > especially with compression. Proxmox replication is a very nice thing > for DR etc. Very efficient backups. > > - Clustering & HA - their implementation is superior to Cloudstack's, it > could simply be offloaded to the Proxmox engine, as it is done with > Xenserver and Vmware. VM HA for KVM in Cloudstack is currently broken as > far as I am concerned, with VMs failing to be started automatically on > available HVs once one goes down. > > The list goes on with finer points that I don't remember right now. It's > an excellent product, if you haven't tried it yet, give it a go. > > Regards, > Lucian > > > > --- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > On 2019-12-05 07:46, Wido den Hollander wrote: > > On 12/4/19 3:20 PM, Nux! wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> As a user of Proxmox, I am quite happy with how they got certain > >> things > >> right. ZFS, CEPH, HA, efficient backups etc are all very nice > >> features. > >> It's giving ESXi a run for its money in certain circles. > >> It'd be great if we could orchestrate Proxmox hypervisors/clusters > >> with > >> Cloudstack. > >> > >> Happy to contribute some time and testing, but obviously this requires > >> an actual developer's attention. Any takers? > >> > > > > But it's still KVM in the end. So what would the true benefit be over > > KVM which we have right now? > > > > It supports Ceph, ZFS (just set it up) and HA. > > > > So I don't see what we are lacking or what Proxmox integration would > > bring us? > > > > Wido > > > >> Regards, > >> Lucian > >> >
