[sofixa]

> We are working on making OpenShift Virtualization as capable as we can (considering we're killing the Red Hat Virtualization product [upstream project: oVirt]) but it's not really meant, especially right now, to be a VMware replacemen

Didn't know RHEV was being killed. It makes sense, the enterprise virtualisation market is shrinking by the day, but it's still a bummer there's less competition. Is oVirt being maintained?

> That's what solutions like Nutanix are for.

Nope. Nutanix is for when you want to replace your hardware and software, have specific workloads that fit a hyperconverged hardware deployment, want a good piece of software with a ton of extras that don't really work all that well, being bash and random FOSS smushed together with duct tape. Oh, and you have money to burn.

[Datagenerator]

For LXC and VM's one might consider Proxmox as counterbalance to the VMware walled garden.

[zhdc1]

Second Proxmox. While our footprint is likely much smaller than many of the other folks on here, it's been a life saver for managing LXCs.

[doubled112]

Another Proxmox vote here, even if I'm also small scale.

Proxmox has been solid and near problem free for our simple deployment

As far as Linux system containers go, is the landscape still raw LXC, LXD, and Proxmox?

LXD snap had caused some issues for me. I didn't have any issues with it when it was packaged as a distribution package. Plus I briefly considered it again when VM management came out, but Proxmox still won over it.

[sofixa]

Disclaimer: I work at Hashicorp.

There's also Nomad which has an LXC plugin alongside all the others.

[mroche]

>Didn't know RHEV was being killed. It makes sense, the enterprise virtualisation market is shrinking by the day, but it's still a bummer there's less competition. Is oVirt being maintained?

With the release of RHV 4.4 a few years back, it's become the last RHV release and will be maintained until its EOL in 2024 (ELS 2026). Like any open-source project, oVirt will be maintained by whoever wants to work on it, be it Red Hat engineers, other virtualization organizations, or just random contributors. But RH engineers won't be payrolled to work on oVirt on a daily basis.

> Nope. Nutanix is for when you want to replace your hardware and software, have specific workloads that fit a hyperconverged hardware deployment, want a good piece of software with a ton of extras that don't really work all that well, being bash and random FOSS smushed together with duct tape. Oh, and you have money to burn.

I don necessarily disagree, I was just pointing out one commercial virtualization solution that theoretically could operate large scale deployments. I don't typically see alternate products like Proxmox come up often in discussions (I honestly only know one person personally using it), but virtualization isn't my forté either, so there's that.

[rwmj]

oVirt is open source, although it unfortunately doesn't have a large development community. But it would still be a good starting point if someone wanted to create an open source VMware replacement.