In this post we’ll explore how to monitor the oVirt environment so you can visualize performance, resources and trends.
Visualize and Monitor the oVirt environment with Grafana
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Important changes to the oVirt Terraform Provider
Update: The Terraform provider is now available on the Terraform Registry. We are making sweeping and backwards-incompatible changes to the oVirt Terraform provider. We want your feedback before we make these changes. Here’s the short list what we would like to change, please read the details below. The current master branch will be renamed to legacyv0. The usage of this provider will be phased out within Red Hat around the end / beginning of next year. If you want to create a fork, we are happy to add a link to your fork to the readme. A new main branch […]
6 ways Grafana can help you improve performance in oVirt
In this post: Learn how using Grafana in oVirt can help you save time and resources, free resources, optimize your workload schedule, and more!
oVirt Monitoring Alerts via Grafana
In this blog we will explain how to configure alerts in Grafana for your oVirt environment and provide an example alerts dashboard that you can import, use and edit to your needs. The alerts can be configured to send you notifications by different channels as described in Grafana List of supported notifiers. This blog focuses on how to configure Grafana to send alerts by email.
Recording your talk for the oVirt Conference
If you are a speaker for the upcoming oVirt Conference, you may be wondering how to record your talk. This guide will walk you through setting up OBS Studio, an excellent open source recording and streaming software. First of all, please obtain OBS from the link above or from your Linux distribution repository. Don’t worry, you don’t need the latest and greatest, any version from recent years will do. Once you start up OBS, you will be greeted by the Auto-Configuration Wizard. Please cancel this wizard as we will set up things manually. Then, please click the Settings button at […]
oVirt 4.4.8 is now generally available
The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.4.8 , as of August 19th, 2021. This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses hundreds of individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics, as compared to oVirt 4.3. Important notes before you install / upgrade Please note that oVirt 4.4 only supports clusters and data centers with compatibility version 4.2 and above. If clusters or data centers are running with an older compatibility version, you need to upgrade them to […]
Using Ceph only storage for oVirt datacenter
The oVirt project introduced support for Ceph storage via OpenStack Cinder in version 3.6.1. A few years later that integration was deprecated after introduction of cinderlib support in 4.3.0. What’s the status of the Ceph support? Can we use it as storage for the whole datacenter? The answer is yes. Self-Hosted Engine on Ceph There is no direct support for running a Self-Hosted Engine on managed block storage but that’s not too bad. In order to use Ceph for a Self-Hosted Engine you need to create an image and expose it as iSCSI from the Ceph system. Prerequisites: You need […]
oVirt 4.4.7 is now generally available
The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.4.7 , as of July 6th, 2021. This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses hundreds of individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics, as compared to oVirt 4.3. Important notes before you install / upgrade Please note that oVirt 4.4 only supports clusters and data centers with compatibility version 4.2 and above. If clusters or data centers are running with an older compatibility version, you need to upgrade them to […]
The 512 byte VM
What’s the smallest virtual machine you could create? Or, why would you want one? In the days of ubiquitous bandwidth and fast computers we often don’t care if a VM or container image is a gig, or two, in size. However, this rapidly changes when you are confronted with edge cases: people living in less well-connected countries, or, in our case, needing to run hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines for automated test cases over a VPN. Recently, we started working on the oVirt Terraform Provider, which has unfortunately seen better days. Apart from getting our own very much […]
oVirt 4.4.4 is now generally available
The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.4.4 , as of December 21st, 2020. This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses hundreds of individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics, as compared to oVirt 4.3. Important notes before you install / upgrade Please note that oVirt 4.4 only supports clusters and data centers with compatibility version 4.2 and above. If clusters or data centers are running with an older compatibility version, you need to upgrade them to […]