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@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
From working in big business, if I was to use my small cross section of things, I'd say that VMware support is truly lacking in comparison to KVM.
Atatements like this are what make people not listen to things you say. This is just clearly not the case.
Because people hate the truth.
Let's face it, we all know it is true. But it's not popular from the vendor's perspective. And people don't like to rock the boat. But anyone who has dealt with these vendors knows that getting actual support is not always as miraculous and people like to claim it to be.
Once you get into the trenches and run IT, it's obvious how much of the vendor claims are false. I've worked at some of the big vendors, they farm work out just like little shops do. Tons of their skills are not in house, but calling on outsiders.
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@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
There's no shortage of KVM talent, so anyone telling you that they can't hire is actually telling you that they are so bad at searching that they can't function as a business or they are so bad to work for that no amount of money can fix it.
This simply isn't true. No one in the enterprise space runs qemu/libvirt. They've developed their own APIs (gvisor, firecracker, etc).
It's totally true. Just because you are talking to companies doing a bad job and lying about it and you are accepting what they say as truth doesn't make it so, at all. As long as talent is on the market, and it is without any shortage, then the issue is with the companies hiring (or failing to hire), this is just basic logic. They claim they can't hire, yet people are looking for that work that know what they are doing. GIven those facts, what they claim can't be true. Basic economics.
I'm not. You don't have a real pulse on the market it seems. These are just claims you're making without any basis. Just because you can find some people who can install Proxmox doesn't mean there is KVM expertise.
Also, Proxmox doesn't count as KVM expertise in case that's the angle you're trying to use here.
I never made the claim about anything about ProxMox. I just said that KVM skills are not in short supply. There's lots on the market. Everyone makes claims that there is a shortage to justify not providing in house talent and just going to vendors. It's an easy claim to make and if a company is crap at hiring it even makes it appear to be true. But we all work in IT and know that it's not even remotely true. Tons of people are on the market, and tons of support firms are too. The bottom line is that companies avoid hiring them (or anyone) because they like just paying a vendor as an excuse. Went through this this week, luckily once we talked about this exact stuff they understood immediately and didn't just hire a vendor to sell them stuff.
It's easy to follow the sales people and get paid as a middleman and not to do IT, so everyone wants to so it. Big enterprises are full of middle managers looking to protect their jobs. SO the process just keeps repeating. But don't repeat it to IT people as if we don't know better. We all know that skills are on the market and companies aren't hiring them.
Is this supposed to tell me that KVM people aren't available? These look like job postings. I'm not sure what this is in reference to. That big companies hire badly we've already covered.
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@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
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I think you are trying to repeat the old "Windows has more support than Linux" argument, which is obviously well known to be untrue. The market hires loads more Windows people than it does Linux, more people purport to work on Windows than Linux, and we all know how that works out. Your list shows exactly what I'm talking about. VMware has the volume of listings... this tells us how people think that they need to hire, or what they want. Tells literally nothing of what is available.
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@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
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@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
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That's not apples to apples. One is support one is hiring engineers. Two different things.
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@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
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That's not apples to apples. One is support one is hiring engineers. Two different things.
No idea why this quoted so weird.
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@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
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@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
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That's not apples to apples. One is support one is hiring engineers. Two different things.
No idea why this quoted so weird.
"Just because something may be supported, doesn't imply that it is support."
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@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
think
That's not apples to apples. One is support one is hiring engineers. Two different things.
No idea why this quoted so weird.
"Just because something may be supported, doesn't imply that it is support."
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@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
OK, thanks.
But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?
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@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
OK, thanks.
But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?
Openshift is on azure now
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@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
OK, thanks.
But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?
Openshift is on azure now
Yes, Red Hat says you can install and run it on:
- your laptop
- public cloud - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Coming soon: IBM Cloud, Ali Cloud
- your datacenter
- managed by Red Hat
https://developers.redhat.com/products/openshift/download
I haven't used it though but it would be fun to look into. I always thought you needed a huge infrastructure just to run it.
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@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
OK, thanks.
But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?
I don't know anyone running RHEV. I also don't know anyone actually running openatack. I'm sure there are a few but it's hardly the norm.
Openshift may use libvirt underneath with kubevirt but I think most are just running containers. I don't know too many places running openshift either over just k8s.
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@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
OK, thanks.
But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?
Openshift is on azure now
And I bet the APIs, Monitoring, Auditing, ability to integrate services, etc. is fantastic.
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Here's one example of why KVM isnt more popular than it is. I love how KVM does snapshotting. I can create thousands of snapshots off of a metadata preallocated qcow2 image because it's reallocate on write and not copy on write. You would incur almost no performance hit up to a few thousand snapshots. But who works that way anymore? If you have the experience to automate reallocated snapshots and block commit them back to the base, you have the expertise to just create ephemeral systems and not use snapshots at all. Then you turn your expertise to automation of more important things. It's good at what it does, but when you have the expertise to leverage it at that level, you don't need it anymore.
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@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
OK, thanks.
But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?
I don't know anyone running RHEV. I also don't know anyone actually running openatack. I'm sure there are a few but it's hardly the norm.
Openshift may use libvirt underneath with kubevirt but I think most are just running containers. I don't know too many places running openshift either over just k8s.
There are 4000+ jobs on linkedin in the US when searching for openstack.
8000+ jobs when searching for openshift. And I see companies such as Bank of America, Citi, Delta Air Lines, Federal Reserve etc. So I'm guessing it's in use for sure. -
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
OK, thanks.
But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?
I don't know anyone running RHEV. I also don't know anyone actually running openatack. I'm sure there are a few but it's hardly the norm.
Openshift may use libvirt underneath with kubevirt but I think most are just running containers. I don't know too many places running openshift either over just k8s.
There are 4000+ jobs on linkedin in the US when searching for openstack.
8000+ jobs when searching for openshift. And I see companies such as Bank of America, Citi, Delta Air Lines, Federal Reserve etc. So I'm guessing it's in use for sure.Yeah some companies associated with the government are looking at openshift now. The problem they are facing in testing it is lack of talent.
There's 69k+ kubernetes jobs available in kubernetes. Even so kubernetes engineers are hard to find
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@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@pete-s said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@irj said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
The integration with the REST APIs is more important than any of the anscillary features of qemu/libvirt.
Exactly. Stuff isn't done manually anymore.
It's not even that about manual process. It's about being able audit, and have a repeatable process.
Auditing in KVM is pretty much not there lol.
Just a side note, but what type of auditing are you talking about? Security audit? Compliance audit?
All of the above.
OK, thanks.
But how about libvirt being used by openstack and openshift? There has to be a lot of enterprises running that in their hybrid cloud environment. Surely not everyone is running their workloads only on Amazon or Google. Red Hat has to be out there pushing a lot of this to their enterprise customers. And surely these environments are fully automated and auditable just like aws or gcp. Or isn't that the case?
I don't know anyone running RHEV. I also don't know anyone actually running openatack. I'm sure there are a few but it's hardly the norm.
Openshift may use libvirt underneath with kubevirt but I think most are just running containers. I don't know too many places running openshift either over just k8s.
There are 4000+ jobs on linkedin in the US when searching for openstack.
8000+ jobs when searching for openshift. And I see companies such as Bank of America, Citi, Delta Air Lines, Federal Reserve etc. So I'm guessing it's in use for sure.That's not really that many positions. And that's not a great metric because a lot are most likely repeats and are possibly just anscillary tech knowledge. "Must understand hypervisors: VMware, openstack, xenserver, etc"
I'm not saying they aren't used but they aren't popular.
Edit because openatack isn't a thing.
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Plus even with things like openshift, kubevirt is doing any KVM work for you. You need 0 KVM expertise to let Kubernetes manage your hypervisor/VMs.
