Testing RHEV Hypervisor?

[Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS)]

> On 01/26/2011 03:26 PM, Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS) wrote:
> > I tried to do this once but found that Red Hat would only agree to do
> > managed demos.  Unfortunately their resource wasn't available to set
> > it up and manage it so I requested access to the packages so we could
> > do our own demo.  They declined, stating that it's too complex for a
> > customer to set up their own demo.  Because of that, it ended up
> > falling through, which is a shame as we're a big VMware shop.
> 
> "Too complex for a customer to setup for a demo"?
> 
> How hard can it be to install + start some software on a server and use
> a GUI to provision some VM's?

Considering what we do for a living, not hard at all.  But that's what you get when sales people get in the middle.  To quote directly:

"Generally speaking we want an SA involved with the client up front for RHEV to ensure it goes well. The initial configuration is not as straightforward as I will be with subsequent releases. If you can wait the two weeks, I would prefer that Michael work with you and get you the eval upon his return so you don't waste cycles on installation."

I tried to press but they went unresponsive.  Mind you, this seems to be par for the course in terms of Red Hat's customer relations, at least in my experience.  Sad, really.