Il giorno dom 4 apr 2021 alle ore 16:13 Nicolas Kovacs <i...@microlinux.fr> ha scritto:
> Hi, > > I'm a 53-year old Austrian living in Montpezat, a small village in South > France. I'm an IT professional with a focus on Linux and free software, and > I've been a Linux user since Slackware 7.1. > Welcome to oVirt community! > > I'm doing web & mail hosting for myself and several small structures like > our > local school and a handful of local companies. Up until recently these > hostings > have happened on "bare metal" root servers using CentOS 7. One main server > is > hosting most of the stuff: WordPress sites, one OwnCloud instance, Dolibarr > management software, GEPI learning platform, Postfix/Dovecot mail server, > Roundcube webmail, etc. > > This setup has become increasingly problematic to manage, since > applications > have more and more specific requirements, like different versions of PHP > and > corresponding modules. > > So I decided to split everything up nicely into a series of virtual > machines, > each one with a nicely tailored setup. > > I have a couple of sandbox servers, one public and one local, running > Oracle > Linux 7 (a RHEL clone like CentOS). I played around with it, and KVM-based > virtualization already works quite nicely. > > While looking for documentation, I stumbled over oVirt, which I didn't even > know existed until last week. Before I dive head first into it, I'd be > curious > to know a few general things. > > 1. Would it be overkill for a small structure like mine? > If you have only a couple of bare metal and a few VMs you may consider more lightweight virtualization managers like cockpit project machine plugin ( https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-virtualmachines ) or kimchi project (https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi ) or virt-manager ( https://virt-manager.org/ ) > > 2. Will I be able to do HA on a series of modest KVM-capable root servers > even > if they are located in different datacenters across different countries? > I think it mostly depends on the network latency and speed. Having HA with servers in different countries may be problematic. > > 3. One problem I couldn't resolve using a bone-headed keep-it-simple KVM > setup > is backup. For my bare-metal servers I've been using incremental backups > using > Rsnapshot for years. Here's a blog article I wrote on the subject: > > https://blog.microlinux.fr/rsnapshot-centos-7/ > > Unfortunately I can't use this approach with huge QCOW images, at least not > without jumping through burning loops. > > Is there an easy way to perform remote incremental backups with oVirt? > There are a few backup vendors that provide solutions for backing up oVirt VMs, you can just query google for them. > > BTW, I took a peek at Proxmox and Ceph, but I admit I'm a die-hard > RHEL-clone > user. > > Cheers from the sunny South of France, > > Niki > > -- > Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables > 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat > Site : https://www.microlinux.fr > Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr > Mail : i...@microlinux.fr > Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 > Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12 > _______________________________________________ > 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/I734ZR3ITWA6RSBSXVHO2DAOELTY4I54/ > -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbona...@redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/> *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours. <https://mojo.redhat.com/docs/DOC-1199578>*
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