Hi, First of all thanks for starting this discussion.
My feedback is mainly based on RHEV, as I'm using RHEV in our company and on customer side. oVirt is cool as I can see what new features next RHEV version may/will bring and what issues other users have with this technology. What I like: * web based UI * KVM as it brings the highest virtualization performance on the market * RHEL/Fedora as a hypervisor for more flexibility * tags and bookmarks with search filters - great for big installations * server and desktop virtualization can be done with one gui * open source of course ;) * hook scripts - sooo cool! * rest-api * user portal - some of our customers use this as a basic cloud tool for providing vms and self-provisioning features with accounting using postgresql database What I would like to see in future release in oVirt and after testing in RHEV (most of these points are based on customer feedback, too, who bought RHEV or where we had at least a pre-sales appointment): * Spice-XPI for Firefox on Windows (and maybe Ubuntu): I know it's a lot of work to build it for every new firefox version, but providing it for Firefox LTS would be a really good start. At the moment Internet Explorer ist required for full use of admin und user portal (or VNC has to be used). * ovirt-guest-agents for major Linux distributions: - openSUSE - SLES - Ubuntu - Debian * Virtualize ovirt-engine on ovirt hosts I know that this would require major changes due to how oVirt works (libvirt and vdsm), but nearly every customers is asking: why can't I install my hypervisors, create a vm for RHEV manager and configure the environment then (in the same way as it is possible with VMware)? * Make ovirt-engine more Enterprise ready Compared with VMware (sorry for always comparing it with VMware, but it's the market leader and it has many nice features which would be great in oVirt/RHEV, too) oVirt required more tasks done on command line or via API/Shell/GUI as features are missing in the web GUI: - Deploy network configs on all hosts When creating a new logical network in a Cluster it has to be created on all hosts before it can be used. It would be great if this could be done automatically (except for rhevm/spice/storage-networks where an IP address of each host is required). The workflow could be: + create new logical network + click on deploy button + create ifcfg-files on hosts + make ifcfg-files persistent on ovirt Nodes + bring interface up + check if interfaces are up + make logical network Operational if deployment was successful on all hosts - Configure ovirt hosts from GUI It would be really an improvement if all settings of the TUI (like DNS, NTP, syslog, kdump, admin and root passwords, hostname,...) could be configured in ovirt-engine gui, too (in hosts tab). Plus including changing multipath.conf in Web GUI would be very nice. - Create host profiles Storing all configuration settings of the TUI and host tab (without ip addresses for sure) in a profile would make changes easier and speed up deployment of new hypervisors. I'm thinking of: + create a profile which contains e.g. DNS, NTP and admin passwords + link profile to hosts + change DNS in profile + in hosts tab you can see that there are changes between the profile and the hosts + bring host in maintenance mode + sync profile (and maybe reboot host) When installing new hosts (via CD or PXE) the profile can be used to automatically configure the host without providing all settings via boot options + configure all networks, custom multipath.conf,... Host profile should be used for full RHEL/Fedora hosts as well. - Update RHEL/Fedora Hypervisors from GUI It would be nice if Fedora hosts could be updated from the ovirt-engine GUI like the ovirt Node. Running yum check-update on host and displaying notice if there are updates available. - Implement resource pools At the moment only Quotas are available (which is great, btw), but in some cases it's necessary to implement resource pools. E.g. Limit CPU, Memory and Network for group of test vms, but give full resources to production vms. This could be done with cgroups. - Clone vms I'm missing the possibility of cloning vms without creating a template. - Resize disk in GUI Increasing the size of a disk would help a lot. At the moment I create new disks and put it into volume group on vm, but resizing would be nicer in some cases and will reduce the number of disks. - Upload ISOs within the GUI to ISO domain - Integrate virt-v2v into oVirt GUI It would be cool if VMs could be Migrated from other systems within the GUI using virt-v2v as a backend. - Edit settings of vms before importing them Most the of the settings like disk type (IDE/VirtIO), nic but also vm type (server/desktop) and access protocol (Spice/VNC) can't be edited withing oVirt/RHEVM GUI before importing them. These settings can only be changed by editing the xml directly. Disk type and nic is risky of course, but working for most Linux distributions. - Use existing share for ISO domain When creating an ISO domain, oVirt/RHEV creates it's own directory structure with IDs. It would be nice if an existing share could be used (e.g. an ISO share on NFS server which is used by other service, too) without creating the structure with IDs. I know that the IDs are needed internally but I think it should be possible to reuse an existing share. - Put ISO domain on NFS, iSCSI, FC and Gluster storage, too I know that these are a lot of features I would like to see and it would be great if some of them would be implemented in future releases. Btw, on of the coolest features of oVirt seems to be the UI plugin feature, which I haven't tested yet. I really hope that this will be available in RHEV 3.2, too. As I don't have that much Java knowledge to implement some of my feature requests and contribute the code, I can do some Perl and JavaScript and extend oVirt (and hopefully RHEV, too) like Oved did with Foreman (great job and many thanks for the documentation in your wiki!). -- Regards, DI (FH) René Koch Senior Solution Architect ============================================ ovido gmbh - "Das Linux Systemhaus" Brünner Straße 163, A-1210 Wien Phone: +43 720 / 530 670 Mobile: +43 660 / 512 21 31 E-Mail: r.k...@ovido.at ============================================ On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 18:08 +0200, Itamar Heim wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > as we wrap oVirt 3.2, I wanted to check with oVirt users on what they > find good/useful in oVirt, and what they would like to see > improved/added in coming versions? > > Thanks, > Itamar > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
