Appreciated Daniel. If add more hosts down the line may the engine configuration be
migrated back to a VM for resilience ? Thanks, P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Helgenberger" <daniel.helgenberger(a)m-box.de>
To: "Phil Daws" <uxbod(a)splatnix.net>, "users"
<users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 October, 2014 3:00:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] To oVirt or not to oVirt
Hi Phil,
On 07.10.2014 15:42, Phil Daws wrote:
am reading through the release notes for 3.5 as I believe one can
install the engine on a VM now.
Indeed, this is called Hosted Engine. In 3.5, witch
is expected to be
released in a few days/week you can also use a prebuild virtual
appliance for this purpose. Also, the ovirt Node, witch is a prebuld
minimal OS, will have the feature to support Hosted Engine.
If you are running only one host, I would advice deploying more hosts or
take the traditional approach and put the engine in bare metal box for
production.
Maybe you stumbled over the admin guide [1] already? The doc is quite
new and reflects oVirt 3.4
Keep in mind, EL7 is sopported as HOST in 3.5 only atm, your Engine
still needs to run Fedora 19 / EL6.5
As I only have one server at present my thoughts are to install
CentOS7, then oVirt 3.5 node (vdsm), and then create a VM which would be the oVirt Engine.
There is a script, called hosted-engine --depoly for that. All you need
to do is to enable the repos in yum and install ovirt-hosted-engine,
desirably from a minimal install. Please read [2].
Then as I add on another server I can just build that as a node and
the Engine can be moved between. Is that correct ? Thanks, P.
Also, for testing you
can use ovirt all in one [3]. This is a HV host
plus engine (but not as a VM IIRC). I would not recommend this for
production.
[1]
http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Administration_Guide
[2]
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine
[3]
http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/AllInOne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Yasny" <dyasny(a)gmail.com>
To: "Phil Daws" <uxbod(a)splatnix.net>
Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 October, 2014 2:29:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] To oVirt or not to oVirt
Why do you need OVS? oVirt supports VLANs out of the box without the extra hurdle
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Phil Daws < uxbod(a)splatnix.net > wrote:
Would this be the way to integrate OVS
http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Neutron_GRE_Integration_-_How_To ? or in 3.5 are you able to
import OVS networks now ? Thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Daws" < uxbod(a)splatnix.net >
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Tuesday, 7 October, 2014 12:51:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] To oVirt or not to oVirt
Further to this if I wished to use oVirt do I need to completely wipe the CentOS7 server
or could I install the upcoming oVirt 3.5 directly over the top ? Thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Daws" < uxbod(a)splatnix.net >
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Tuesday, 7 October, 2014 10:32:32 AM
Subject: [ovirt-users] To oVirt or not to oVirt
Good day all!
have been a KVM user/admin for the last few years and have configured all aspects using
either VirtManager or CLI where required.
am about to reinstall my development system and started to look at using CentOS7 as the
host, and to get a more recent version of KVM. After a little search around I came across
oVirt and am considering whether to install this now and use it as the main configuration
tool.
do have a couple of questions which hopefully somebody will be able to help with? at
present I am using OpenVSwitch with KVM so that I could use the vlan capabilities and wish
to ask whether will need to move away from that to a different solution ? On my host I
already have about 10 VMs that I wish to keep and whether I could migrate them into oVirt
? I have been using LVM volumes as raw storage for the VM images so presume would need to
convert them to a different format for use ?
one of my VMs actually acts as a storage provider, using Quantastor, which then presents
storage to other VMs using iSCSI which hope I can still use in oVirt ?
Apologies if these questions are a little vague but am trying to get my head around how
it would all work.
Thank you, Phil
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