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I'm evaluating different virtualization management tools for KVM virtualization. I've a kvm ready server with 32GB ram. I'm looking for web based management tools where different people can manage/create/clone and so forth their virtual machines.
I've already tested Archipel and WebVirtMgr. In my opinion Archipel is still too buggy and WebVirtMgr is too simple.
oVirt is my next choice but I'm a little bit concerned because I want to run the manager and kvm on the same server. The requirements for oVirt are pretty high: min. 4 GB of ram, better 16 GB.
My server has only 32 GB ram so I'm concerned that the manager takes too much of the avaiable RAM.
Has somebody experience with oVirt and can assume that it takes so much ram or does somebody have another web based management tool recommendation?
Each VM will have its own RAM requirements (you might want to allocate 8GB of RAM to a VM, depending on the workload). oVirt does some tricks related to reusing identical read-only memory pages across multiple VMs, so 3 VMs using 8GB each will not take 24GB, usually, but that is approximately the case. Add in 2GB or more for the oVirt manager, plus whatever your host operating system needs. – Dave Neary – 2019-02-26T20:35:59.893
Thanks for your information. What do you exactly mean by "the ram requirements include running vms"? Do you have some details about how much ram oVirt takes at its own? – nexus – 2013-04-26T14:08:57.010