On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 12:15 PM <n...@creativitysoftware.net> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've just joined the mailing list as my organisation needs a new > virtualisation solution. VMware is prohibitively expensive for a small > company like ours and of all the opensource solutions, oVirt looks like the > best fit for our needs. > > Our existing virtual infrastructure is primarily made up of an old vSphere 5 > cluster (expired license on old and out of warranty hardware) and a couple of > newer standalone (free) ESXi servers. Both the cluster and the standalones > have shared NFS storage so I can move VMs around. > > I want to take a couple of older (2014ish) servers which will serve as the > management host and one compute node initially. Then, I'd like to migrate > VMs from one vSphere host at a time to the newly created oVirt cluster and > convert the now empty vSphere ESXi hosts into oVirt compute nodes as I go. > > Firstly - Would new compute host hardware (2020) work in a (2014) based ovirt > cluster?
Generally speaking, yes. > > If so > > Would I be able to take advantage of the more advanced features of ovirt like > live migration etc.. with a mix of new and old hardware Generally speaking - yes, if you set the cluster cpu level to be the lowest common denominator of your existing machines. Simplest way to do this, I think (didn't verify), is to add to your new empty cluster first the oldest host, as I think the cluster conf is set based on the first host. Best regards, -- Didi _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/XWM3JBMTBGQQBP3OMBSF56HZ4DIVCRS5/
