I am using bare metal systems with all SSD drives. Going to do a vanilla install for
oVirt.
I have given consideration to the dd idea, as it is a good one. I will have to take one of
the systems out of the rack to install it offsite and return it. It might be worth it
though given the time constraint.
The client is running a full production environment in the same data centre that we are
using for the POC, so there is zero flexibility on the isolation policy. Bummer, I
know.....
Thanks for the idea on the offline install, I might decide to explore that a bot more
Regards,
Martin.