In this post, we’ll see how to install oVirt. for those of you who ask oVirt?! well, taken from its website:
THE VIRTUAL DATACENTER MANAGEMENT PLATFORM Provision, manage, and monitor hosts, hypervisors, virtual machines, storage, and network
So really, oVirt is a management eco system for virtual machines, fairly similar to v-sphere, but open source and runs on the very popular KVM hypervisor, oVirt is the open source version, of the redhat’s RHEV-M.
My motivation for this series of posts, beside promoting alternative and cool open source software is the integration between oVirt and Foreman, so provisioning of vm’s would get a whole new meaning when you have a virtual data center managed by oVirt where you could plug in puppet into the loop.
I’ve tested the oVirt management (oVirts core/backend) on Fedora 16, mostly because RPM’s for RHEL clones has not made by the community just yet :)
It is recommended to use something with a minimum of 2GB of RAM, 4GB better, as oVirt runs under jboss, however, it is not a problem to run oVirt on a virtual machine.
So enough about that, its awesome and open source, how do I install it? :)
You should know be able to access the UI via http://<your host>:8080 and login using the credentials above.
In a follow up post I’ll describe how to configure oVirt, and how to starts creates new VM’s.