Ganeti Usage Survey

[Rudolph Bott]

Hey Everyone,

we - the Ganeti orga team - kindly ask you to help us improve our understanding of the current usage of Ganeti. Please fill out the following survey which should take less than a minute to complete:

  https://forms.gle/Ed5eKJaExmD854GF6

We will keep this survey open until the end of October 2020 and publish the results to the Ganeti mailing lists. This should provide us with insights which features are frequently or less frequently used and hence influence the development of Ganeti in the future.

Thank you for your time!

Cheers on behalf of the orga team,

Rudi

[Sedat Dilek]

Thanks for the survey, Rudolph.

I see several items in German like "Erforderlich" (Required) and
"Sonstiges" (Misc)?
Might depend on the localisation setting in Google-docs?

Regards,
- Sedat -

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[Rudolph Bott]

Hi Sedat,

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:30 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat...@gmail.com> wrote:

I see several items in German like "Erforderlich" (Required) and
"Sonstiges" (Misc)?
Might depend on the localisation setting in Google-docs?

Yes, I think this is due to localisation/browser settings. I realised just now that my system has an english localisation and therefore did not even think about it :-)

Cheers,

Rudi

 

Regards,
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:24 PM Rudolph Bott <bo...@sipgate.de> wrote:
>
> Hey Everyone,
>
> we - the Ganeti orga team - kindly ask you to help us improve our understanding of the current usage of Ganeti. Please fill out the following survey which should take less than a minute to complete:
>
>   https://forms.gle/Ed5eKJaExmD854GF6
>
> We will keep this survey open until the end of October 2020 and publish the results to the Ganeti mailing lists. This should provide us with insights which features are frequently or less frequently used and hence influence the development of Ganeti in the future.
>
> Thank you for your time!
>
> Cheers on behalf of the orga team,
> Rudi
>
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[Rudolph Bott]

Hey Everyone,

surely it is a bit later than what I promised. But last but not least I'd like to provide you with the outcome of the survey. Over time we gathered 50 responses which provide us with quite some insights! Thanks everyone for participating :-) 

I will attach the results as CSV so you can draw your own conclusions if you like to. One important information we can disclose right away: ~80% have no intention to move away from Ganeti and most of the other 20% will continue using Ganeti along with other solutions! There is definitely a public interest in Ganeti and it is worth every minute we can invest into this project to keep it going (and growing!).

Out of the 50 users who have responded, 96% use KVM as their virtualisation technique, while there are also some (10%) Xen users. However, only 4% use Xen exclusively while the others use KVM and Xen at the same time in their infrastructure.

Storage-wise DRBD is the winner (84%), but only 36% use DRBD as their sole storage solution. Most users also use the "plain" disk type along with it but actually every single storage backend has at least one active user (hu, even diskless!):

2.15 (34%) and 2.16 (76%) seem to be the dominant versions out there. That looks promising with regards to a 3.0 upgrade! However, those few 2.5 and 2.11 users really need to get their act together :-) 

Ganeti seems to be popular with Debian/Ubuntu (62%/20%) and CentOS/Fedora (20%/4%) which pretty much sums up my gut feelings on this topic. We should probably throw in some automated testing on CentOS in the future to make sure these platforms do not break.

Please feel free to start a discussion on the results - did anything surprise you? What conclusions should we draw from the results? Personally I am really interested in reports about Gluster and LXC as I actually did not expect these technologies to be in use at all with Ganeti.

Cheers,

Rudi

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:24 PM Rudolph Bott <bo...@sipgate.de> wrote: