Just got the following experience on #ovirt

(15:37:35) investigator: is there anyone around today that can help with a first time install?
(16:13:40) sbonazzo: investigator: hi, how may I help? did you read installation guide before starting the installation?
(16:14:01) investigator: sbonazzo: hi. thanks. yes, I read it
(16:14:17) sbonazzo: investigator: that's a good start :-)
(16:14:51) investigator: sbonazzo: I'm trying to understand several things before I get going
(16:15:24) investigator: From what I've read, I think I want to do a self-hosted engine
(16:15:46) investigator: So that means I need at least two machines to start, right?
(16:16:06) investigator: And EL7 is the recommended base, true?
(16:16:08) sbonazzo: investigator: yes. you may want to use 3 machines if you wnat to run in a hyperconverged environment
(16:16:32) sbonazzo: yes, EL7 is practically the only supported environment
(16:16:45) investigator: great
(16:17:06) investigator: then I need to have a storage server up and ready before I start
(16:17:21) investigator: That's my current snag
(16:18:29) sbonazzo: investigator: you can avoid the storage server if you ran hyperconverged
(16:18:34) investigator: My idea is to partition my two self-hosting machines with minimum diskspace and use the remaining disk as iSCSI targets for a storage soution
(16:18:47) investigator: what is hyperconverged?
(16:19:00) sbonazzo: investigator: running storage and virt on the same machines
(16:19:32) sbonazzo: investigator: we have an integrated solution using glusterfs on 3 hosts as storage, running virtualization on top of that
(16:19:57) investigator: ok. sounds like what I was trying to do
(16:20:10) investigator: except for the glusterfs
(16:20:11) sbonazzo: investigator: here's the architecture https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/gluster/glusterfs-hyperconvergence/
(16:20:38) sbonazzo: investigator: here's a guide to get there https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/Gluster_Hyperconverged_Guide/
(16:20:59) investigator: sbonazzo: thank you much
(16:21:18) sbonazzo: investigator: you're welcome
(16:21:55) investigator: Don't run away. I'm sure I will have lots more questions after I read a bit
(16:23:29) investigator: The first link on that guide is https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/gluster-hyperconverged/chap-Introduction#documentation%20gluster%20hyperconverged%20gluster%20hyperconverged%20chap%20Introduction
(16:23:33) investigator: which is dead
(16:23:36) sbonazzo: investigator: I'm probably not the best one for helping you on this. I would suggest to ask on useres@ovirt.org mailing list, since today is already a bit late. Sahina Bose from gluster team may help you more than I can
(16:23:51) sbonazzo: investigator: doesn't look like a good start, let me see
(16:24:10) investigator: what time zone is best for this channel?
(16:24:59) investigator: I have tried it over a 10 hour span, but seem to be off be about 6 hours
(16:25:49) investigator: sbonazzo: All the links in that guid are dead
(16:26:15) sbonazzo: investigator: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/
(16:26:26) sbonazzo: investigator: just broken link, but content still there
(16:26:30) sbonazzo: investigator: pushing a fix
(16:28:17) investigator: ok. first link says to start wtih a hosted engine deployment
(16:28:37) investigator: so I'm back where I started
(16:28:43) sbonazzo: investigator: here's the fix https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/pull/1220 thanks for reporting
(16:29:01) sbonazzo: investigator: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/chap-Introduction/
(16:29:21) sbonazzo: investigator: then https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/chap-Deploying_Hyperconverged/
(16:29:28) investigator: sbonazzo: :) that's still broken
(16:29:50) investigator: the navigation links on that page have the same problems
(16:30:40) sbonazzo: investigator: :-( I'm very sorry for this experience, not sure how come all those links got broken


I think we need to spend some time fixing the website. We may release the best release ever but we'll loose user just becuase they get lost in broken links.

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