[GTALUG] What would you use to host VM's

[Dave Cramer]

On 8 March 2016 at 15:33, Alvin Starr <alvin at netvel.net> wrote:

> At the bottom end you can use virsh/libvirt and virt-manager to handle a
> small to medium number of VM's over a number of host machines.
>

Ya I was aware of this, works fine for a "couple"

>
> There is also complete distributions like Proxmox that can manage VM's
>
> There are several cloud frameworks that will allow you to build out to
> large size.
> I have worked with a number of the OpenStack toolkits and you can get
> reasonable simple installation using RDO Packstack.
>
> The upside of cloud frameworks over libvirt or proxmox is that you have
> better isolation between VMs if that is important to you.
>
> The biggest problem is that there is SO much choice and all the products
> have a lot of capability overlap.
>

Hence the question

>
> Are these 50VMs going to be running at the same time or will it be
> something like 50 test images and only 1 or 2 running at one time?
>
> not all on the same host obviously


> How may host machines to you expect to have?
>

as required by the VM's

>
> Do you plan to have a separate system to manage and co-ordinate the VMs?
>

I gather this is a good idea?

Dave Cramer



>
>
> On 03/08/2016 03:18 PM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> What open source framework would you use to host a limited number < 50
> VM's
>
> Ideally has a GUI, but not absolutely necessary.
>
> Dave Cramer
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