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A lot of people use it. I for one use it because it is simple to manage, setting up shared storage is a breeze, live migration is super easy. I don't use any of
by ExoticPearTree 2y ago
A lot of people use it. I for one use it because it is simple to manage, setting up shared storage is a breeze, live migration is super easy. I don't use any of the fancy NSX stuff and whatnot because I don't believe they add any value.
I was looking at Proxmox, but I kind of got lost in the documentation when it comes to shared storage and high-availability, meaning restarting VMs on another host if one host fails.
RedHat is just as expensive as VMware used to be, but it had less features, so it is not really an option.
- jve 2y ago> ..., meaning restarting VMs on another host if one host fails. Wait, your VM will still restart if vmware host dies, right? You can't have RAM sync between hosts.
- larvaetron 2y ago> You can't have RAM sync between hosts. That's what FT is for, if the primary VM instance dies or becomes unresponsive, you failover to the mirror instance.
- ExoticPearTree 2y agoThere are two different things: - live migration: its wonderful because I can update servers firmware without any VMs downtime - VM restart if a host dies - works wonders in a cluster where given enough host capacity you have a level of assurance that the downtime is very brief. And regarding Fault Tolerance, it is tricky and if you don't need that level of availability it's better to just plan for a VM restart or have other types of high-availability in place to mitigate a host failure.
- dralley 2y agoIf you're talking about OpenShift, it has less features for virtualization perhaps, but is easier for migrating apps over to k8s. Which is something many orgs want to do.