
Hi, i'm planning to install some new hypervisors (ovirt) and i'm wondering if it's possible to get it installed on sdcard. I know there is write limitation on this kind of storage device. Is it a viable solution? there is somewhere some tuto about tuning ovirt on this kind of storage? Thanks -- Lionel

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Lionel Caignec <caignec@cines.fr> wrote:
Perhaps provide some more details about your plans? The local disk is normally used only for standard OS-level stuff - mostly logging. If you put /var/log on NFS/iSCSI/whatever, I think you should not expect much other local writing. Didn't test this myself. People are doing many other things, including putting all of the root filesystem on remote storage. There are many options, depending on your hardware, your existing infrastructure, etc. Best,
-- Didi

Ok thank you, for now i'm not so advanced on architecture design i'm just thinking of what can i do. Lionel ----- Mail original ----- De: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi@redhat.com> À: "Lionel Caignec" <caignec@cines.fr> Cc: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Envoyé: Jeudi 20 Juillet 2017 08:03:50 Objet: Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt on sdcard? On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Lionel Caignec <caignec@cines.fr> wrote:
Perhaps provide some more details about your plans? The local disk is normally used only for standard OS-level stuff - mostly logging. If you put /var/log on NFS/iSCSI/whatever, I think you should not expect much other local writing. Didn't test this myself. People are doing many other things, including putting all of the root filesystem on remote storage. There are many options, depending on your hardware, your existing infrastructure, etc. Best,
-- Didi

The proposed seems to be something interesting but is manual and susceptible to errors. I would much rather if this would come out of the box as it is VMware ESXi. A 'squashfs' type of image boots up and runs completely in memory. Any logging is written and rotated also in memory which keeps only a certain recent period of logs necessary for quick trobleshooting. Whoever wants more than that can easily set a rsyslog server to collect and keep the logs for a longer period. With this, only the modified Node configuration is written in the SD Card/USB Stick when it changes which is not often which makes it a reliable solution. I personally have a Linux + libvirt solution installed and running in a USB Stick that does exactlly this (writes up all the logs in memory) and it has been running for 3+ years without any issues. Fernando On 20/07/2017 03:54, Lionel Caignec wrote:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------15812906FA8C95984B607B42 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Lionel, I'm running such a setup since about 4 month without any problem so far, on Cisco UCS Blades. rgds, Arsène On 07/19/2017 09:16 PM, Lionel Caignec wrote:
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--_000_DM5PR01MB2506C3012AF69D5D6D05184DFFA40DM5PR01MB2506prod_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, Same here, im running multiple servers on SD cards without issues. -- Respectfully Mahdi A. Mahdi ________________________________ From: users-bounces@ovirt.org <users-bounces@ovirt.org> on behalf of Ars=E8= ne Gschwind <arsene.gschwind@unibas.ch> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:32:11 AM To: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt on sdcard? Hi Lionel, I'm running such a setup since about 4 month without any problem so far, on= Cisco UCS Blades. rgds, Ars=E8ne On 07/19/2017 09:16 PM, Lionel Caignec wrote: Hi, i'm planning to install some new hypervisors (ovirt) and i'm wondering if i= t's possible to get it installed on sdcard. I know there is write limitation on this kind of storage device. Is it a viable solution? there is somewhere some tuto about tuning ovirt on= this kind of storage? Thanks -- Lionel _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org<mailto:Users@ovirt.org> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Ars=E8ne Gschwind Fa. Sapify AG im Auftrag der Universit=E4t Basel IT Services Klingelbergstr. 70 | CH-4056 Basel | Switzerland Tel. +41 79 449 25 63 | http://its.unibas.ch <http://its.unibas.ch/> ITS-ServiceDesk: support-its@unibas.ch<mailto:support-its@unibas.ch> | +41 = 61 267 14 11 --_000_DM5PR01MB2506C3012AF69D5D6D05184DFFA40DM5PR01MB2506prod_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-= 1"> </head> <body text=3D"#000000" bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF"> <style type=3D"text/css" style=3D"display:none;"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margi= n-bottom:0;} --></style> <div id=3D"divtagdefaultwrapper" style=3D"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font= -family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir=3D"ltr"> <p>Hello,</p> <p><br> </p> <p>Same here, im running multiple servers on SD cards without issues.</p> <p><br> </p> <div id=3D"Signature"><br> <div class=3D"ecxmoz-signature">-- <br> <br> <font color=3D"#3366ff"><font color=3D"#000000">Respectfully<b><br> </b><b>Mahdi A. Mahdi</b></font></font><font color=3D"#3366ff"><br> <br> </font><font color=3D"#3366ff"></font></div> </div> </div> <hr style=3D"display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex=3D"-1"> <div id=3D"divRplyFwdMsg" dir=3D"ltr"><font face=3D"Calibri, sans-serif" st= yle=3D"font-size:11pt" color=3D"#000000"><b>From:</b> users-bounces@ovirt.o= rg <users-bounces@ovirt.org> on behalf of Ars=E8ne Gschwind <arsen= e.gschwind@unibas.ch><br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:32:11 AM<br> <b>To:</b> users@ovirt.org<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt on sdcard?</font> <div> </div> </div> <div> <p>Hi Lionel,</p> <p>I'm running such a setup since about 4 month without any problem so far,= on Cisco UCS Blades.</p> <p>rgds,<br> Ars=E8ne<br> </p> <br> <div class=3D"moz-cite-prefix">On 07/19/2017 09:16 PM, Lionel Caignec wrote= :<br> </div> <blockquote type=3D"cite" cite=3D"mid:2022940100.1850872.1500491766296.Java= Mail.zimbra@cines.fr"> <pre wrap=3D"">Hi, i'm planning to install some new hypervisors (ovirt) and i'm wondering if i= t's possible to get it installed on sdcard. I know there is write limitation on this kind of storage device.=20 Is it a viable solution? there is somewhere some tuto about tuning ovirt on= this kind of storage? Thanks -- Lionel=20 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href=3D"mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users= @ovirt.org</a> <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/l= istinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> <div class=3D"moz-signature">-- <br> <p class=3D"western" style=3D"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><font = color=3D"#000000"><font face=3D"Tahoma, serif"><font style=3D"font-size: 8p= t" size=3D"1"><b>Ars=E8ne Gschwind</b> </font></font><font color=3D"#000000"><font face=3D"Tahoma, serif"><font st= yle=3D"font-size: 8pt" size=3D"1"> </font></font></font><font face=3D"Tahoma, serif"><font style=3D"font-size:= 8pt" size=3D"1"></font></font><font face=3D"Tahoma, serif"> </font><font color=3D"#000000"><font face=3D"Tahoma, serif"><font style=3D"= font-size: 8pt" size=3D"1"><br> </font></font></font><font color=3D"#7f7f7f"><font face=3D"Tahoma, serif"><= font style=3D"font-size: 8pt" size=3D"1">Fa. Sapify AG im Auftrag der Unive= rsit=E4t Basel<br> IT Services<br> Klingelbergstr. 70 | CH-4056 Basel | Switzerland<br> Tel. +41 79 449 25 63 | </font></font></font><a href=3D"htt= p://its.unibas.ch/"><font face=3D"Tahoma, serif"><font style=3D"font-size: = 8pt" size=3D"1">http://its.unibas.ch </font></font></a><br> <font color=3D"#7f7f7f"><font face=3D"Tahoma, serif"><font style=3D"font-si= ze: 8pt" size=3D"1">ITS-ServiceDesk: <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href=3D"mailto:support-its@unibas.ch"=
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Arsène Gschwind
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FERNANDO FREDIANI
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Lionel Caignec
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Mahdi Adnan
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Yedidyah Bar David