Potential new user with a few questions...

[amelsen]

Hi there (whomever is reading).

I just recently started up a company and are priviledged enough to have a fiber connection to my house with a full 100/100mbit connection.

In my infrastructure I will need to set up multiple virtual machines, and be able to migrate them from one machine to the other in case I need to do hardware maintenance.

I have two machines that I will use for server purposes. Besides that I have a NAS box which I plan to to mount through CIFS shares. (I can't do NFS for other purposes).

What I was hoping was to be able to deploy virtual machines and have the file based disk created on the NAS, and then have the servers boot them from the NAS instead of from the local disk.

Is this possible?

Also - while searching for virtualisation related solution.. I stumpled across this.. but also oVirt. Is there anyone here with experience with both that can list some pro's - con's for proxmox vs. ovirt?


Thanks in advance.

/Allan

 

[l.mierzwa]

Hi there (whomever is reading).

I just recently started up a company and are priviledged enough to have a fiber connection to my house with a full 100/100mbit connection.

Good luck but what reference does it have to proxmox?

In my infrastructure I will need to set up multiple virtual machines, and be able to migrate them from one machine to the other in case I need to do hardware maintenance.

If that is a question then first page on proxmox wiki would answer that.

I have two machines that I will use for server purposes. Besides that I have a NAS box which I plan to to mount through CIFS shares. (I can't do NFS for other purposes).

What I was hoping was to be able to deploy virtual machines and have the file based disk created on the NAS, and then have the servers boot them from the NAS instead of from the local disk.

Is this possible?

Not supported but I guess that it is possible if You manually mount CIFS on each proxmox server and use "Local directory" storage type pointing to CIFS mount.

Also - while searching for virtualisation related solution.. I stumpled across this.. but also oVirt. Is there anyone here with experience with both that can list some pro's - con's for proxmox vs. ovirt?


Thanks in advance.

/Allan

1. oVirt uses only kvm so no lightweight virtualization (or rather isolation).
2. proxmox it much simpler - no kerberos server, no forced network isolation
3. proxmox is a released product, ovirt guys released only development snapshots that AFAIK does not even install on Fedora 12 without hacking source -link
4. ovirt seems to be more feature rich (on paper) but proxmox has fast release cycle so it's catching up real quick

I was considering oVirt, convirt 2.0 and proxmox but having no stable release yet for ovirt and convirt makes it very clear choice.

 

[dietmar]

I have two machines that I will use for server purposes. Besides that I have a NAS box which I plan to to mount through CIFS shares. (I can't do NFS for other purposes).

We only support NFS or iSCSI (you can use CIFS, but you need to configure/mount that manually).