@Tim_G said in Managing Hyper-V:
Turns out, WebVirtMgr was too good to be true. I couldn't get it working on Fedora 26 or Fedora 25. Hours wasted.
I looked at Proxmox, but that's a Debian "appliance". I'm not using Debian in enterprise and don't want to. No time wasted, didn't bother.
oVirt wouldn't even install on Fedora 26 or 25. Apparently it's built for Fedora 24, I'm not going there. Even then, it doesn't seem like it would install. Time wasted trying to get it working. Packages were updated as of yesterday, so I was thinking they would work. I was wrong.
Briefly looked into Scale... I don't see any package or rpm to install. They want you to use an appliance or something. Not interested.
So much non-working stuff. There were others, but not for enterprise Linux such as RHEL/Fedora based. Everyone tries out their projects, and just abandons them, or they make it so hard to install and it's just insanely unstable.
I'd rather it be like the Windows ecosystem... where it either works great and has great support, even free versions, (StarWind for example), or it simply doesn't exist.
Moving on, I did find Kimchi. I don't remember if that was mentioned in this thread, if so, thank you... but I found it mentioned somewhere on the net.
Kimchi... easy to install, webpage up and working out-of-box if you know what I mean. I don't know if it "technically works" because I'm testing it on Fedora 25 that is a VM itself... but at least I am able to log in to the web page, and see a nice what-seems-to-be-working interface:
Well... it was working. I just went to grab a screenshot to show how great it was (what was I thinking?).. but now this:

I may be able to get it working better on a fresh install, so I won't dismiss it yet... but still, no viable options on Linux for web-based VM management / console access either.
It may be financially better to install Hyper-V (free) and pay for 5nine... labor costs a lot to mess with all this non-working and non-applicable stuff.
At $600 one time fee for vSphere essentials starts to sound real nice about now also. He'll even SCCM-VMM at ~8K isn't awful compared to something that MIGHT work on your OS today but not survive an upgrade.
It's kinda bizarre because enterprises with large scale pay for managemnt tools (and are better positioned to write their own/script stuff). SMBs where they lack the in house bench and depth to operalize free are the ones always trying it. Now to be fair enterprises getting 80% off because of their scale, and they are better poised to leverage some features do shift the value to running comedical software.
Im curious why you don't like appliances?
As a consultant when I saw a solo SMB admin wasting 60% of his time messing with stuff that should have been taking up 2% it was hard to Disagree with the management decision to replace him with a MSP.