[Openstack-operators] Hypervisor decision

matt matt at nycresistor.com
Wed Mar 18 22:23:59 UTC 2015


most openstack environments at kvm, so if you want to stick with the herd,
that's the way to go.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Abel Lopez <alopgeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting topic, since you're already running Hyper-v and ESX, I'm
> inferring that your workload is heavy on windows VMs.
> If you're doing majority windows, and minority linux, stick with hyper-v.
> The benchmarks I've read show that windows VMs run fastest on hyper-v VS
> all others.
> If you expect an even split, it might make sense to create Host Aggregates
> of various hypervisiors like hyper-v and KVM, and utilize extra-specs in
> the flavors and guest images to aid in scheduling, for example "Windows
> images launch on the hyper-v pool"
>
> > On Mar 18, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Vytenis Silgalis <vsilgalis at outlook.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking to champion openstack at my company, we currently run both a
> small hyper-v cluster and 3 VMware clusters.   However we are not married
> to any specific hypervisor.  What I'm looking for is recommendations for
> which hypervisor we should look at for our openstack environments and the
> pros/con's people have run into with the various hypervisors supported by
> openstack.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vytenis
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