This documentation suite is intended for anyone who wants to manage virtual machines! oVirt is lightweight enough to work for a developer managing, say, a single host with four VMs, yet robust enough for a large organization managing tens of thousands of VMs. Although oVirt is developed using Fedora, oVirt is not tied to a particular platform. Solaris and Windows users can use the oVirt browser interface, and in the future the oVirt Server Suite User Interface will run across platforms as well. Typical users can b e:
Open Source Developers who are prototyping and experimenting with oVirt Server Suite. Important aspects are an easy installation of the system and the ability to make changes in order to build a community of users and developers.
Users at the enterprise level: Hardware Administrators, team administrators and virtual machine users at large or small IT facilities.
Typically, hardware administrators can use the oVirt Server Suite User Interface to manage thousands of Virtual Machines running on thousands of Host systems, often with complex user roles involved.
Team administrators manage user quotas, permissions, and subgroups for team hardware, monitor physical hosts, maintain available team VMs, and install images/appliances.
oVirt Server Suite User Interface users create, destroy, and generally use VMs available to them after connecting to VMs from a browser interface.