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    • stacksofplatesS
      stacksofplates @FATeknollogee
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      @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

      Virt-manager vs oVirt, which one is considered more "up to date"?

      To me, oVirt was slow. My one host has 8 cores and 96GB RAM and it took a long time to do stuff. That could be because I did the all in one install. But I'm assuming that's what most people here will be doing.

      I find straight KVM easy and super fast. I have a smaller LV for the OS and then a large LV for the qcow2 images. A full clone of a template takes about 2 seconds (thin provisioned qcow2).

      You can do some pretty cool stuff with libvirt. I have a template that updates nightly without manually spinning up the disk. I have a clone script that clones the template and sets the MAC, then runs virt-customize to set the hostname in the VM, and then finally starts it.

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      • matteo nunziatiM
        matteo nunziati @FATeknollogee
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        @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

        Is oVirt a virtual appliance like XOA?

        you have a number of options from installing it on dedicated machines to installing it as an OVA. here the docs

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        • matteo nunziatiM
          matteo nunziati @Alex Sage
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          @aaronstuder I've not a home lab. for personal needs I use KVM as my machines run linux on bare metal.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            KVM on my Scale cluster. KVM on my laptop machine. Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

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            • FATeknollogeeF
              FATeknollogee @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

              ...Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

              Why are you using Hyper-V?

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              • FATeknollogeeF
                FATeknollogee @stacksofplates
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                @stacksofplates said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                Two KVM servers on CentOS 7.

                You need 2x CentOS 7 vm's to run oVirt?

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                  Alex Sage @FATeknollogee
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                  @FATeknollogee no, two physically host. 1 is none, 2 is one.

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                  • FATeknollogeeF
                    FATeknollogee @Alex Sage
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                    @aaronstuder said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                    @FATeknollogee no, two physically host. 1 is none, 2 is one.

                    I don't understand?

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                    • NerdyDadN
                      NerdyDad @FATeknollogee
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                      @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                      @aaronstuder said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                      @FATeknollogee no, two physically host. 1 is none, 2 is one.

                      I don't understand?

                      You have 1 host. What would you do if that host dies? You're left with none. If you have 2, and 1 dies, then you're left with 1.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
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                        @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                        ...Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

                        Why are you using Hyper-V?

                        HA Starwind cluster.

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                        • FATeknollogeeF
                          FATeknollogee @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                          @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                          ...Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

                          Why are you using Hyper-V?

                          HA Starwind cluster.

                          Ah, should have seen that coming!

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
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                            @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                            @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                            ...Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

                            Why are you using Hyper-V?

                            HA Starwind cluster.

                            Ah, should have seen that coming!

                            Yeah, doing a small Starwind Grid.

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                            • FATeknollogeeF
                              FATeknollogee @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                              @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                              @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                              ...Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

                              Why are you using Hyper-V?

                              HA Starwind cluster.

                              Ah, should have seen that coming!

                              Yeah, doing a small Starwind Grid.

                              How "big" is small?

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
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                                @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                ...Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

                                Why are you using Hyper-V?

                                HA Starwind cluster.

                                Ah, should have seen that coming!

                                Yeah, doing a small Starwind Grid.

                                How "big" is small?

                                It's very small. Three Dell R510.

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                                • stacksofplatesS
                                  stacksofplates @FATeknollogee
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                                  @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                  @stacksofplates said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                  Two KVM servers on CentOS 7.

                                  You need 2x CentOS 7 vm's to run oVirt?

                                  I'm not running oVirt. Just bare CentOS 7 with KVM.

                                  One host has an NFS share because it has bigger disks. The other has more RAM so it has most of the VMs running.

                                  I can transfer them between the hosts but I don't usually do that.

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                                  • Mike DavisM
                                    Mike Davis
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                                    Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

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                                    • restoronixR
                                      restoronix @Mike Davis
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                                      @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                      Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

                                      Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V 🙂

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                                      • KOOLERK
                                        KOOLER Vendor @Mike Davis
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                                        @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                        Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

                                        This is very correct approach IMHO.

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                                        • JaredBuschJ
                                          JaredBusch @restoronix
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                                          @restoronix said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                          @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                          Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

                                          Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V 🙂

                                          Well that is because you are baking in Veeam.

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                                          • ObsolesceO
                                            Obsolesce @JaredBusch
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                                            @JaredBusch said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                            @restoronix said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                            @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                                            Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

                                            Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V 🙂

                                            Well that is because you are baking in Veeam.

                                            Hyper-V is a great hypervisor, too... there are few reasons not to use it, and most of those reasons have nothing to do with Hyper-V itself.

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