Solved KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization
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Dears
Red Hat has a Virtualization Product called RHEV and also we can install KVM for the same purposes , so i need to know what is the best and what are the differences between the KVM - Libvirt - and RHEV - Ovirt - ?
Thanks all
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It is not KVM or RHEV. RHEV is just a package of KVM. Those are two KVM options.
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The main difference is if you are paying for support or not. RHEV is Red Hat's paid for, supported KVM solution. KVM that doesn't come from RHEV is the free, unsupported one.
Are you looking for support or for supporting it yourself? And while KVM is good, any reason that you have limited your options to only KVM?
And if looking at KVM, any reason that you are looking to build your own (what do you plan to use for storage) rather than looking at hyperconverged solutions like @scale?
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@scottalanmiller i am planning to work with KVM so i asked can it afford a large scale of VMs or it only depends on the Storage and Hardware aspects ?.
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@AlyRagab said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
@scottalanmiller i am planning to work with KVM so i asked can it afford a large scale of VMs or it only depends on the Storage and Hardware aspects ?.
Why are you planning on KVM, though? What made KVM the decision? Not only is this a point of interest, but whatever factors caused the majority of the decision to already be made will tell us a lot about what further decisions need to be made.
KVM and RHEV are the same thing. So they do the same scale. And they go bigger than any company you will ever work with. Digital Ocean and Vultr are both KVM.
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@AlyRagab said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
@scottalanmiller i am planning to work with KVM so i asked can it afford a large scale of VMs or it only depends on the Storage and Hardware aspects ?.
If you didn't know that KVM could meet your needs, how did you decide on it?
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@scottalanmiller so that only difference between the KVM and RHEV is that RHEV is paid , this is what i am asking .
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@AlyRagab said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
@scottalanmiller so that only difference between the KVM and RHEV is that RHEV is paid , this is what i am asking .
thanksYes
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That and KVM is JUST the hypervisor, RHEV is the full package. RHEV IS KVM. So there isn't a "difference" at all. You cannot have KVM or RHEV. It's KVM as RHEV, KVM you do yourself, KVM from Scale, whatever. It's all KVM.
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@scottalanmiller Appreciated your respond Scott
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@scottalanmiller said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
he main difference is if you are paying for support or not. RHEV is Red Hat's paid for, supported KVM solution. KVM that doesn't come from RHEV is the free, unsupported one.
oVirt is the free packaging.
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@scottalanmiller said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
@AlyRagab said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
@scottalanmiller i am planning to work with KVM so i asked can it afford a large scale of VMs or it only depends on the Storage and Hardware aspects ?.
Why are you planning on KVM, though? What made KVM the decision? Not only is this a point of interest, but whatever factors caused the majority of the decision to already be made will tell us a lot about what further decisions need to be made.
KVM and RHEV are the same thing. So they do the same scale. And they go bigger than any company you will ever work with. Digital Ocean and Vultr are both KVM.
And Linode, we are all using it right now.
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@stacksofplates said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
@AlyRagab said in KVM or RHEV for Enterprise Virtualization:
@scottalanmiller i am planning to work with KVM so i asked can it afford a large scale of VMs or it only depends on the Storage and Hardware aspects ?.
Why are you planning on KVM, though? What made KVM the decision? Not only is this a point of interest, but whatever factors caused the majority of the decision to already be made will tell us a lot about what further decisions need to be made.
KVM and RHEV are the same thing. So they do the same scale. And they go bigger than any company you will ever work with. Digital Ocean and Vultr are both KVM.
And Linode, we are all using it right now.
True, and lots of others, too. MangoLassi is on Linode. IBM uses KVM extensively.
