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      EddieJennings @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

      Although I want to now reach out to RHEL and tell them to fix this. . .

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      Yeah. I have yet to find any kind of screenshots or demo videos of Red Hat's solution, and information that seems promising is hidden.

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        DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
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        @JaredBusch said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

        @DustinB3403 said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

        RHEL is based on KVM.

        Umm what? RHEL is not based on KVM. RHEL is the OS.

        Doh words.

        I meant RHEL Virtualization is based on KVM

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          dafyre
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          If you must use a web interface for KVM, There's WebCloudMgr (used to be WebVirtMgr).. https://github.com/retspen/webvirtcloud

          I used the WebVirtMgr, but haven't tried the Webvirtcloud yet since I'm pretty much happy with using Virt-Manager.

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            travisdh1
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            Cockpit is what will, eventually, be the web based management tool. It's not quite fully ready yet. The really lacking thing in it right now is new VM creation.

            Forgot about it in my first response, doh!

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              DustinB3403 @dafyre
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              @dafyre said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

              If you must use a web interface for KVM, There's WebCloudMgr (used to be WebVirtMgr).. https://github.com/retspen/webvirtcloud

              I used the WebVirtMgr, but haven't tried the Webvirtcloud yet since I'm pretty much happy with using Virt-Manager.

              That looks a ton like XO.

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                black3dynamite
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                oVirt web management UI looks very similar to what RHEV uses.

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                  EddieJennings @black3dynamite
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                  @black3dynamite said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                  oVirt web management UI looks very similar to what RHEV uses.

                  I'm surprised Red Hat doesn't seem to be promoting whatever they use for managing RHEV. I figured they'd try to lure folks away from VMware or Hyper-V with a slick interface 🙂

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                    stacksofplates
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                    Mist is a good one but it's more geared towards cloud deployments.

                    I've used Ansible and Terraform to do deployments as well as Virt-Manager and virsh. It's all in what you want.

                    This is all assuming that you're using QEMU. KVM exists without QEMU which is how GCP and AWS run KVM.

                    For Firecracker (AWS) it's all REST API management.

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                      EddieJennings
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                      This link lists several options, but I'm curious if there's a de facto standard for managing a KVM cluster?

                      Looks like the answer is "no" 🙂

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                        DustinB3403 @EddieJennings
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                        @EddieJennings said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                        This link lists several options, but I'm curious if there's a de facto standard for managing a KVM cluster?

                        Looks like the answer is "no" 🙂

                        The default answer does exist, Virt-Manager. Cockpit works, but as @travisdh1 mentioned is lacking a few features to make it the solidified "go-to" solution.

                        If you need more or want something different then you'd look at alternatives.

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                          EddieJennings @DustinB3403
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                          @DustinB3403 said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                          @EddieJennings said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                          This link lists several options, but I'm curious if there's a de facto standard for managing a KVM cluster?

                          Looks like the answer is "no" 🙂

                          The default answer does exist, Virt-Manager. Cockpit works, but as @travisdh1 mentioned is lacking a few features to make it the solidified "go-to" solution.

                          If you need more or want something different then you'd look at alternatives.

                          The feature I see missing from Virt-Manage is the click-to-make-this-vm-a-template button and then click-to-deploy-a-vm-from-template button. What I do instead is just make a VM, power it down, and clone it, which, for the most part, seems behave the same.

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                            wrx7m @EddieJennings
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                            @EddieJennings said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                            @DustinB3403 said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                            @EddieJennings said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                            This link lists several options, but I'm curious if there's a de facto standard for managing a KVM cluster?

                            Looks like the answer is "no" 🙂

                            The default answer does exist, Virt-Manager. Cockpit works, but as @travisdh1 mentioned is lacking a few features to make it the solidified "go-to" solution.

                            If you need more or want something different then you'd look at alternatives.

                            The feature I see missing from Virt-Manage is the click-to-make-this-vm-a-template button and then click-to-deploy-a-vm-from-template button. What I do instead is just make a VM, power it down, and clone it, which, for the most part, seems behave the same.

                            So, by your description, you can't make templates of VMs?

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                              jmoore @wrx7m
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                              @wrx7m I thought you could do this using virsh or am I mistaken?

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                                wrx7m @jmoore
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                                @jmoore said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                                @wrx7m I thought you could do this using virsh or am I mistaken?

                                I haven't used KVM yet. I am not sure.

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                                  DustinB3403
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                                  In Virt-Manager you would just clone the VM once it's powered off.

                                  So build your Template VM, with all of the settings you want. Name it something identifiable as a template and just clone, clone clone.

                                  I'm not sure if there is a specific "Template" feature though, at least I'm not seeing one here.

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                                    DustinB3403
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                                    Screenshot from 2019-02-25 16-49-55.png

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                                      DustinB3403
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                                      Here is what Virt-Manager would look like using XOCE as a template in this case and cloning it.

                                      Screenshot from 2019-02-25 16-54-19.png

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                                        DustinB3403
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                                        Also just as an aside, the screenshot functionality of Fedora is so damn simple.

                                        Shift+Alt+PrntScrn and you get the active window, saved to Pictures

                                        How easy is that! Thank you Linux Devs

                                        ♥

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                                          matteo nunziati @EddieJennings
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                                          @EddieJennings said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                                          @black3dynamite said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                                          oVirt web management UI looks very similar to what RHEV uses.

                                          I'm surprised Red Hat doesn't seem to be promoting whatever they use for managing RHEV. I figured they'd try to lure folks away from VMware or Hyper-V with a slick interface 🙂

                                          Ovirt is the upstream of RHEV.

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                                            DustinB3403 @matteo nunziati
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                                            @matteo-nunziati said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                                            @EddieJennings said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                                            @black3dynamite said in KVM / Red Hat Virtualization Management:

                                            oVirt web management UI looks very similar to what RHEV uses.

                                            I'm surprised Red Hat doesn't seem to be promoting whatever they use for managing RHEV. I figured they'd try to lure folks away from VMware or Hyper-V with a slick interface 🙂

                                            Ovirt is the upstream of RHEV.

                                            So you'd install 1-300 oVirt nodes (on your physical and individual servers) and create a gluster pool out of them?

                                            I actually looked at this a while ago and got frustrated with their documentation because and very specifically it jumps across all of the options to getting ovirt to work.

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