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Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great! Otherwise, prepare to invest in other ways. I'm no
by NBJack 3y ago
Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great! Otherwise, prepare to invest in other ways. I'm not going to say VMware has a super intuitive system, but I've gotten surprisingly far at times without a lot of deep knowledge. Well, until the *nix-like kernel in the hypervisor misbehaves....
- znpy 3y agoIf you have any significant workload on vmware you likely already have an expert on payroll.
- Klasiaster 3y agoThe setup is not too complicated with something like https://opendev.org/openstack/devstack https://opendev.org/openstack/devstack
- prometheanfire 3y agodevstack is for dev work, expect nothing to persist. If you want a deployment choose something like openstack-ansible.
- throw0101c 3y ago> Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great! If you know (say) Ubuntu and Ansible, then there's pretty good automation with openstack-ansible and kolla-ansible. There are a number of moving parts, but an intermediate-level Linux sysadmin can get things going without too much difficulty. There are vendor-provided solutions (e.g., from RH) as well if you don't want to do a fully DIY, or want commercial support. * https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/distros/ https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/distros/ At a previous job we had a team of 4-5, and 1.5 FTEs split their time between our HPC cluster and our OpenStack cluster (20+ hypervisors, ~10 Ceph servers; >350 VMs/instances).