Hey, recently I looked at how many (indirect) dependencies vdsm is pulling in. I did the comparisong using the Node Next squashfs image. What Node Next is doing, it uses the CentOS 7 @core group, and installs vdsm on-top of this. The conclusion is: without-vdsm with-vdsm Ratio Size of squashfs [MB] 292072 450384 1.542 Package count 297 604 2.034 Disk usage [MB] 839596 1382576 1.647 (Without vdsm: @core group + lvm + efi bits) So we see that vdsm doubles the amount of packages, and increases the disk-space requirements by 64%. Two take aways: CentOS @core could be smaller, and we can take another look at vdsm's direct and indirect dependencies. - fabian