<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Fabian Deutsch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fdeutsch@redhat.com" target="_blank">fdeutsch@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">----- Original Message -----<br>
> Thanks to everyone for the answers. That helps clarify some basics for<br>
> me. I prefer to try and implement ovirt-node for the reasons stated above<br>
> (small, defined OS with a smaller security/management footprint), but now I<br>
> debate using CentOS 6 or RHEL 6. I feel that oVirt-node is very important<br>
> to being able to get an environment up and running securely without too<br>
> much overhead, but perhaps I need to consider minimal OS installs + latest<br>
> gluster release + 3.5 oVirt at this time.<br>
<br>
</span>oVirt node can (btw) be deployed using PXE (Foreman, Cobbler), USB and CD media, and virtual media.<br>
<span class=""><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That very much interests me since I utilize Cobbler currently for all of my provisioning. I would assume that basically one would kickstart it like any other RHEL-based release. Are you aware of any document that describes Cobbler+oVirt-Node by chance?</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
> One thing I was curious about is gluster support in oVirt-node. What is<br>
> the current status as far as glusterfs version and saving settings, etc.?<br>
<br>
</span>The pre-release build from today contains glusterfs-3.6.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Great! Thanks for the information. I've downloaded that ISO and I'm working on getting that deployed on a couple of test blades.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
- fabian<br>
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> Thanks again!<br>
><br>
> Chris<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Fabian Deutsch <<a href="mailto:fdeutsch@redhat.com">fdeutsch@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > ----- Original Message -----<br>
> > > I sincerely hope that this is not answered elsewhere as I've done several<br>
> > > searches and have yet to find a solid answer. I have three (what I<br>
> > believe<br>
> > > to be) basic questions (with perhaps some subs there):<br>
> > ><br>
> > > 1) What is the latest oVirt-node release and where would one download it<br>
> > > (I appear to only see 3.4 -based releases of the ISO available)? It is<br>
> > > 3.5-based and/or is there an upgrade path? Which glusterfs release is<br>
> > > currently included with oVirt-node?<br>
> ><br>
> > Hey,<br>
> ><br>
> > there are some 3.5 pre-release isos available here:<br>
> > <a href="http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/" target="_blank">http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/</a><br>
> ><br>
> > They are quite old. The reason why there is still no Node, is that we are<br>
> > experiencing<br>
> > installation problems after CentOS 6.6 got released.<br>
> ><br>
> > That is why there is no Node for 3.5 yet, becuase we don't want to provide<br>
> > a Node which is dead on arrival. This ain't fun for anyone.<br>
> ><br>
> > > 2) As I understand it, newer releases of oVirt-node allow you to do an<br>
> > > installation of the self-hosted engine at this time. Is that correct?<br>
> ><br>
> > Yes, that will work. Due to problems mentioned above, we still need to do<br>
> > some<br>
> > fixes to the hosted-engine part of Node, but once they land, HE will work<br>
> > on Node.<br>
> ><br>
> > > 3) Is there any functionality that one would be losing out on by<br>
> > deploying<br>
> > > oVirt via oVirt-node vs. using full-OS installation? Which is the more<br>
> > > recommended?<br>
> ><br>
> > Yes, ovirt-node is not as customizable as a regular host.<br>
> > I.e. you can not (easily) modify the boot process, or install custom rpms.<br>
> ><br>
> > Sometimes this is seen as a restriction, other see this as a well defined<br>
> > environment.<br>
> ><br>
> > > Again, I apologize if these questions are covered somewhere, but I felt<br>
> > > like asking them in a direct fashion so as to clear up my own<br>
> > ignorance. I<br>
> > > appreciate any feedback and information that you could share.<br>
> ><br>
> > No, no worries. There weren't any Node updates (besides the weekly meeting<br>
> > minutes)<br>
> > for a while.<br>
> ><br>
> > We still traget to release Node for oVirt 3.5 ASAP.<br>
> ><br>
> > - fabian<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > > Thanks,<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Chris<br>
> > ><br>
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