That’s when EVE-NG came into the picture.Įmulated Virtual Environment – Next Generation (EVE-NG) simplifies the process of running labs containing network devices, and the way to interconnect them with other virtual nodes. This is also how ESXi does it apparently, and it is a very tedious process that I don’t think I’d want to go through when I want to quickly spin something up to try it. It just didn’t make sense to me that running a back-to-back connection between two devices meant you’d create a bridge and link both VMs on it. Unfortunately, creating such labs over oVirt or even nested over KVM within a linux host can be very tricky and time consuming with lots of moving parts that can easily break it. My problem began when I needed to run labs containing network devices (Juniper vMX, vSRX, Cumulus, VyOS, etc). That’s the spot I realized I needed something fresh that tackles the problem of network devices labs in a smarter way. I still happily run oVirt today for everything, except Networking Labs. Nested Virtualization and speed to bring VMs up were my two absolutely favorite parts, especially as I started working on Contrail and Openstack. It works well with images, it can be automated, and it does nested virtualization very, very well. ESXi is great, but with time, I kept finding myself doing a lot of the same thing over and over, and although I automated most parts that are repetitive, I felt like I wanted something a bit quicker that just works.įor around two years, oVirt has been my choice for hosting my run-of-the-mill – mostly linux – labs. I’ve went from VMs on my laptop to using XEN on some old machine to VMware ESXi. Here’s a tiny backstory: Looking back into the past five to six years, homelabbing has been one of greatest pleasures to fiddle around and come up with the right setup for whatever I’m learning.
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