Virtualization Management

the
oVirt way

Alan Pevec
Red Hat
devconf.cz February 2012

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Agenda

● What is oVirt?
● Where did it come from?
● What does it do?
● Architecture
● Roadmap
● What's next?

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What is oVirt?

Large scale, centralized

management for server and
desktop virtualization
Based on leading performance,
scalability and security
infrastructure technologies
Provide an open source alternative
to vCenter/vSphere
Focus on KVM for best
integration/performance
Focus on ease of use/deployment

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How Does It Look?

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Goals of the oVirt project

● Build a community around all levels of the virtualization

stack – hypervisor, manager, GUI, API, etc.
● To deliver both a cohesive complete stack and
discretely reusable components for open virtualization
management
● Provide a release of the project on a well defined
schedule
● Focus on management of the KVM hypervisor, with
exceptional guest support beyond Linux
● Provide a venue for user and developer
communication and coordination

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 Governance

● Merit based, open governance model

● Built using the best concepts taken from Apache and
Eclipse Foundations
● Governance split between board and projects
● oVirt Board
● Multiple projects under the oVirt brand

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 Governance (oVirt Board)

● Initial board
● Red Hat, IBM, NetApp, Cisco, SUSE, Intel
● A few domain leaders from sub-projects
● Mentors
● There is no limit to the number of board seats
● Additional seats are voted based on merit

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How to Start?

● Build from source

● Or, just install pre-packaged
● yum install ovirt-engine
● engine-setup
● Add managed hosts
● from engine
● use ovirt-node registration/approve flow

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Administration Console

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Search Auto Complete

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Search Results

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Add Host As Simple As

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Power Management

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Configure Networks

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Or Bonds

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Without Scripts or Config Files

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Configure Storage Once for Entire Cluster

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Extend with More LUNs as Needed

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Add Servers or Desktops

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Even Windows via Sysprep

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SPICE or VNC

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Migratable or Not

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Highly Available?

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Control Allocated Resources (Disk, Memory)

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Boot Devices

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Advanced Options via Custom Properties

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Assign Permissions to Objects by Roles

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Define Your Own Roles

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User Portal

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Self Provisioning Portal

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User Resource View

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Management Features
Feature Description

High Availability Restart guest VMs from failed hosts automatically on other hosts

Live Migration Move running VM between hosts with zero downtime

System Scheduler Continuously load balance VMs based on resource usage/policies

Power Saver Concentrate virtual machines on fewer servers during off-peak hours
No downtime for virtual machines during planned maintenance windows.
Maintenance Manager Hypervisor patching

Image Management Template based provisioning, thin provisioning and snapshots

Monitoring & Reporting For all objects in system – VM guests, hosts, networking, storage etc.

OVF Import/Export Import and export VMs and templates using OVF files

V2V Convert VMs from VMware and RHEL/Xen to oVirt

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Centralized management,
security and policy enforcement
Virtual desktops with user
experience of a physical PC
Multiple monitors
HD quality video
Bi-directional audio/video for
VoIP or video-conferencing
Smartcard support
USB support
Industry leading density of virtual
desktops/server

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oVirt High Level Architecture

Postgres
Postgres Admin
AdminPortal
Portal
gwt
gwt

AD
AD oVirt
oVirt RR
EE SDK/CLI
SDK/CLI
Engine
Engine
SS python
python
Java
Java
IPA
IPA TT
User
UserPortal
Portal
gwt
gwt

Guest
Guestagent
agent Guest
Guestagent
agent
SPICE
Shared
SharedStorage
Storage Linux
LinuxVM
VM Win
WinVM
VM Linux/Windows
Linux/Windows
FC/iSCSI/NFS
FC/iSCSI/NFS client
client
libvirt
libvirt
VDSM
VDSM
Host
Host| |Node
Node

Local
LocalStorage
Storage
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REST API

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Hosts Collection

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Host networks collection

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Python SDK

- Creating the proxy

- Listing all collections

- Listing collection's methods.

- Querying collection with oVirt search

engine.
- Querying collection by custom constraint.

- Querying collection for specific resource.

- Accessing resource methods and

properties.

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Python SDK (cont.)

- Accessing resource properties and

sub-collections.

- Accessing sub-collection methods.

- Querying sub-collection by custom

constraint.

- Retrieving sub-collection resource.

- Accessing sub-collection resource

properties and methods.

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oVirt CLI

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Data Warehouse based on Talend ETL

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oVirt Reports

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oVirt Reports

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Notification Service

● oVirt allows registration to certain audit events

● The notification service sends emails per audit
message to relevant users
● Also monitors engine itself

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oVirt Guest Agent

● The guest agent provides additional information to

oVirt Engine, such as guest memory usage, guest ip
address, installed applications and sso.
● Python code, available for both linux and windows
guests
● Communication is done over virtio-serial
● SSO for windows is based on a gina module for XP
and a credential provider for windows 7
● SSO for RHEL 6 is based on a PAM module with
support for both KDE and Gnome

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Guest

SSO
SSO

balloon
balloon Virtio-
Virtio- Virtio-
Virtio- USB
USB Spice
Spice guest
guest
net
net block
block driver
driver Agent
Agent

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oVirt Host Agent - VDSM

virto-serial

Guest
GuestAgent
Agent

QEMU/KVM
QEMU/KVM

libvirt
libvirt

hooks
hooks

Host
Host Storage
Storage Network
Network VM
VM Auto
Auto
Config
Config&& Config
Config&& Config
Config&& Config
Config&& Register
Register
Monitor
Monitor Monitor
Monitor Monitor
Monitor Monitor
Monitor

KSM
KSM

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Hooks

● “Hook” mechanism for customization

● Allows administrator to define scripts to modify VM operation
● eg. Add extra options such as CPU pinning, watchdog device,
direct LUN access, etc
● Allows oVirt to be extended for new KVM features before full
integration is done
● An easy way to test a new kvm/libvirt/linux feature

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Hooks

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Hooks
● Hook scripts are called at specific VM lifecycle events
● VDSM (management agent) Start
● Before VM start
● After VM start
● Before VM migration in/out
● After VM migration in/out
● Before and After VM Pause
● Before and After VM Continue
● Before and After VM Hibernate
● Before and After VM resume from hibernate
● On VM stop
● On VDSM Stop
● Hooks can modify a virtual machines XML definition before VM start
● Hooks can run system commands – eg. Apply firewall rule to VM

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Sample Hooks
● CPU pinning ● Fileinject
● SR/IOV ● Floppy
● Smart card ● Hostusb
● Direct LUN ● Isolatedprivatevlan
● Hugepages ● Numa
● Promiscuous mode network interface ● Qos
● Cisco VN-Link ● Scratchpad
● smbios

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In the works ([email protected])

● Live snapshots ● Gluster support

● Live storage migration ● Qbg/Qbh
● Quotas ● virt-resize, pv-resize
● Hot plug ● libguestfs integration
● Multiple storage domains ● Stable device addresses
● Shared disks ● Network types
● iScsi disk ● Backup API
● Shared file system ● SLA
support ● SDM
● Storage array integration ● Many many more...
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How To Contribute or Download

● Website and Repository:

● http://www.ovirt.org
● http://www.ovirt.org/wiki
● http://www.ovirt.org/project/subprojects/
● Mailing lists:
● http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo
● IRC:
● #ovirt on OFTC

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What's Next

● Version 3.0
● Released last week
● Next Workshop
●
Beijing – March 21st
● Hosted by IBM in their Campus
● http://www.ovirt.org/news-and-events/workshop/

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 THANK YOU !

http://www.ovirt.org

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Thin Provisioning

Over-Commitment is a storage function which allows RHEV-M to

logically allocate more storage than is physically available
● Generally, Virtual Machines use less storage than what has been allocated to
them
● Virtual Machine to operate completely unaware of the resources that are
actually available

● QEMU identifies the highest offset

written onto the logical volume
● VDSM monitors the highest offset
marked by QEMU
● VDSM requests to the SPM to extend
the logical volume when needed

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