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+ | At the time of writing proxmox is an excellent hypervisor and there are many guides to set it up. You should check that out if you havent. However if you just want a web GUI for kvm and or to monitor usage on linux hosts like network/ | ||
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Using cockpit if you have used Virt-Manager (Virtual Machine Manager) is very easy just install it such: | Using cockpit if you have used Virt-Manager (Virtual Machine Manager) is very easy just install it such: | ||
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- | sudo apt-get install cockpit cockpit-machines | + | sudo apt-get install cockpit cockpit-machines |
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+ | (For just monitoring a remote linux machine you dont need the cockpit-machines package) | ||
Start it up: | Start it up: | ||
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- | Regarding ovirt - its is a full stack so there is not just the web interface - there is the hypervisor, guest additions and other bits and bobs etc. It is possible to run the ovirt-engine as a VM on one of the KVM hosts which could be your only RHEL VM. This would give a more pure debian style KVM host/one vm acting as a controller type setup. An alternative might be Proxmox | + | Regarding ovirt - its is a full stack so there is not just the web interface - there is the hypervisor, guest additions and other bits and bobs etc. It is possible to run the ovirt-engine as a VM on one of the KVM hosts which could be your only RHEL VM. This would give a more pure debian style KVM host/one vm acting as a controller type setup. An alternative might be Proxmox |
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+ | One nice thing about cockpit is it can provide basic trends of servers over a period of time so you can monitor disk activity etc say over 1 day or 1 week and see trends eg: | ||
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+ | This can help with trends of servers over time. |