Kernel-based Virtual Machine is good for virtualization and Openstack services
April 27, 2017
Kernel-based Virtual Machine is good for virtualization and Openstack services
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Kernel-based Virtual Machine
We are using Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) as part of our storage solution (OpenStack based). Our solution provides low-cost disk volumes to researchers to use for archiving and data backup. The volumes are provided by KVM virtual machines orchestrated by OpenStack Cinder. It was easier to implement this solution with KVM than XenServer Hypervisor.
- Easy way to work with OpenStack
- Better performance with the Linux OS
- Lowest Cost
- Complex networking
- GPU processing is not fully supported
- It's hard to set up without support tools
- Capital expenditure costs are low, because is open-source and free
- Operational expenditure costs are medium because it's necessary [to have] an IT team with experience in Linux
- First step to the virtualization world. Wake up, we are in the 21st century
- XenServer and VMware ESXi
It is a very reliable solution that can be used for x86 architecture virtualization with low overhead. It is a free and open source software. Easy to use withOpenStack.