Hi Simon! I'd given up on ever finding any real person or back-channel on the Oracle side of oVirt, so you're saying there is actually such a thing!
I'd [have] been more than happy to feed back all those results I was collecting in my desperate attempts to maintain a HCI infra with all those shifting Enterprise Linux players doing politics. Today my enterprise use case is transitioning to the cloud and my private use case to Proxmox. The latter has run mostly on Pentium Silver J5005 Atoms during the last couple of years and I am currently trying to work out the kinks on KVM live-migration between an Orange PI 5+ (32GB) and a Raspberry PI 5 (8GB) under Proxmox (using storage on a Ceph HCI cluster running on x86), so you may appreciate why an Oracle support contract wasn't in the picture for an infra I keep under four digits total invests to appease the wife. (Ok, I justed noticed that you're running OL9 on your OP5+, but I don't see you trying to port oVirt there...) Without that contract, it seems, that Oracle keeps very "stumm". So on HCI: When I ran across oVirt, that was somewhere when 4.3 was fresh and oVirt was advertised as "a solution for your entire enterprise" which included HCI, to catch potential Nutanix and vSphere customers. It sold me on the idea, that I could take an oVirt node ISO, install that on my hardware nodes, run a GUI wizard to thurn them into a clustered HCI appliance and be as happy as the other guy with Nut[ell]anix. That dream certainly cost me months of my life, not the hours I had imagined, but it paid a salary, too, when I managed to run it anyway. It took me long to realize that Oracle had ditched all their Xen stuff and become an oVirt convert. But even since then, there has been very little details and firm commitments nor even a branding that doesn't require typing classes to execute, so sorry, if most of my impressions are simply from informational gaps. But to my knowledge, Oracle never published node ISO images. Also to my knowledge, oVirt itself ditched HCI support, Redhat itself made nearly the entire technology stack oVirt is based on EOL, Gluster, oVirt, VDO and, of course, I had used all of that. Except storage tiering, where you'd use SSDs in your VDO/Gluster storage for a caching layer on top of HDDs: that I never got to work and then SSDs became mainline anyway. On my first EL8/oVirt 4.4 tests Oracle's Enterprise kernel failed immediately with VDO, which was missing then. Later even the Redhat kernel sometimes failed with VDO after kernel upgrades, because evidently nobody at Oracle cares about VDO. Funny, when you consider those Sun guys used to be very big into something similar... But also later I got into all kinds of trouble when I was setting up HCI with 4.4 and had not switched the kernels to the Redhat variant. If I remember correctly, the management engine never managed to connect to the network after it had been teleported into KVM and after it had been successfully configured locally on the temporary install node. I could have been that I tried this on nested virtualization, but it felt more kernel related, because switching that fixed the issue. Later I experimented with upgrades from 4.4 to 4.5 and ran into all sorts of trouble when switching the kernel there. Except that now things started failing with the Redhat kernel. Generally nobody seems to test switching between UEK and RHK on HCI nodes, which *should* be totally transparent on the wire and basically to all user space, if I understood Wim Coekaerts correctly, when we met in 2011. So my impression was that Oracle supported a subset of what oVirt supported and with HCI not even giving any search responses anywhere on oracle.com, I didn't see that remaining. And perhaps all I missed was to install 'cockpit-ovirt-dashboard'... So, good to know Oracle hasn't given up, good to know you keep an ear open here and now if there was a bit more public commitment for oVirt, we'd all be much happier. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/KZ6ANPXHSFI2DQYIQP65XOIVA5ENIJJS/
