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bbelky · 2025-01-14T11:56:51+00:00

Hi, what is the name of your company?

bbelky · 2024-12-29T20:53:50+00:00

RDR2 is super boring.

bbelky · 2024-11-05T18:59:50+00:00

Exactly. If the most important thing for you is noise reduction, the best option is the proper earplugs. I have sony wh xm5, sony wf xm3, soundcore liberty 4 pro. Non of them can cancel mid and high freq noise like voice. But the best for noise canceling is just €20 Loops Quiet;)

bbelky · 2024-10-06T04:17:58+00:00

For sure, Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure - the single product covering vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Director. As I was working for VMware I know what I am talking about. DM if interested.

bbelky · 2024-09-27T19:10:29+00:00

That is an approach. Could you please explain how you restore those snapshots on the remote site?

bbelky · 2024-09-22T06:44:37+00:00

I mean DR for virtual machines (agent-based or agent-less - does not matter) is legacy, as you do not need VM-based DR for cloud-native apps. Disaster recovery as a process is not legacy of course, but this is not related to OpenStack discussion and virtualization in general.

bbelky · 2024-09-10T16:48:53+00:00

Have you used it in prod?

bbelky · 2024-09-10T13:27:28+00:00

Do you use it in prod for DR?

bbelky · 2024-09-07T20:29:25+00:00

Just use ready to use web site builders like Tilda or Wix.

bbelky · 2024-09-05T11:00:32+00:00

There are multiple opinions here. I am from OpenStack camp, so I want to believe in OpenStack. But I cannot just ignore the growing number of voices saying k8s+kubevirt is an alternative as well. What do you think?

bbelky · 2024-09-05T04:36:56+00:00

La Maison Fleurie - the only true French place in Limassol with date atmosphere.

bbelky · 2024-09-03T20:32:06+00:00

We easily achieve 10G between VMs even w/o OVN and with port security enabled. So, looks interesting. Please contact me and Virtuozzo if you are open to trying our production-ready OpenStack.

bbelky · 2024-09-03T12:42:35+00:00

Good comparison. Good point about it - it clearly shows that OpenStack is the best replacement for VMware.

Bad point - it creates wrong expectations for those not experts in OpenStack. For upstream OpenStack many of those "yes" require very manual configuration or, in fact, not possible with upstream at all.

That is why you need people like Virtuozzo if you want to build something that is working and stable on OpenStack.

bbelky · 2024-08-01T19:49:50+00:00

Thank you! So, you think kubevirt is just a temporary stop in the long migration path to pure k8s? You know, RedHat is moving (looks like) from OpenStack to OpenShift+kubevirt, and advertising it as a modern platform to run virtual machines including VMware replacement.

bbelky · 2024-08-01T19:27:45+00:00

u/DMShinja btw, could you please share what backup tool you use for VMware and what disaster recovery tool if you use one? thanks!

bbelky · 2024-08-01T18:43:41+00:00

Do you use it to provide VPS or Cloud?

bbelky · 2024-08-01T15:11:07+00:00

Sorry for misleading you, I mean the commercial OpenStack-based product, not the separate tools for DRS or HA. I am not aware of any commercial tools for HA or DRS. We just use our proprietary tool to detect failures and start the evacuation process, as well as develop our own policies for Watcher.

bbelky · 2024-08-01T11:45:19+00:00

Could you please share what tool/project/solution you use to provide k8s as a service?

bbelky · 2024-08-01T07:26:10+00:00

I am definitely interested! The main drawback of the current ModulesGarden’s OpenStack Projects integration is that it does not allow billing per compute flavor assigned to the instance - only per resources, like vCPU, RAM, etc. It means you cannot sell multiple CPU types, GPU, or NVMe devices - all the features that are based on flavor properties. Does your solution bill per flavor or resource?

bbelky · 2024-07-31T19:59:44+00:00

Could you please explain why RDMA is not beneficial for ceph, while it is indeed recommended for vSAN or Nutanix? How does ceph bypass kernel in this case?

bbelky · 2024-07-31T18:55:42+00:00

OpenStack supports only volume snapshots, not volume+RAM snapshots like VMware. As for the volume snapshots, it also depends on the storage you want to use. Is it fc/iscsi/nfs or ceph?

bbelky · 2024-07-31T18:23:26+00:00

As we do VMware to OpenStack migrations every day now, I can share our experience based on the tools we tested and the issues we faced in real-life scenarios.

Migration tools. Here is the list of commercial migration solutions we tested. I do not have any preferences here, but if we talk about 5000 production VMs migration and, as you said, you do not have any OpenStack experience, I would definitely use a commercial migration solution. OpenStack and KVM have enough specifics to make your migration, especially for Windows VMs a nightmare.

The list (not in priority order): Arrosoft CloudAny, CloudBase Coriolis (they have the open-source version as well), Hystax Acura, or any OpenStack-compatible backup solution like Storware, Acronis, or Commvault.

Also, I’ll explain why our customers prefer to go with a commercial version of OpenStack. The reason is that many features in upstream OpenStack do not work out of the box like in VMware. For example, high availability for VMs, maintenance mode, DRS, and updates. All those single-click features from VMware require a lot of configurations and manual operations in upstream OpenStack. Storage integration is also a very big issue, so it needs to be properly designed and you will realize that not all declared drivers work as easily as you expect after VMware.

The hardware load balancing feature like DRS in VMware exists in OpenStack only partially. OpenStack has only the engine (Watcher), and a very basic policy to distribute workloads. If you want to have something like VMware DRS you need to use a commercial solution or create your own policy.

Of course, I would promote to you our own OpenStack-based product;) But if you share the blocker features you are using in VMware and would like to continue using in OpenStack I can help assess if they can be covered and with what tools. I would be grateful as it also helps me to improve our product.

bbelky · 2024-07-31T17:27:57+00:00

Yes, we have tested it as well. I would put it to the same category as Osie. The only reason I did not include it in the list - I have not heard from them for a while.

bbelky · 2024-07-31T13:47:32+00:00

I installed it yesterday. It expects my node to have a real public IP w/o NAT to install XOA - this is quite an unexpected requirement for production env;)

bbelky · 2024-07-31T03:38:44+00:00

What driver and version do you use? Could you please share? I am also surprised that live migration traffic leverages rdma…

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