From gervais at demontbrun.com Tue Dec 1 17:00:03 2015 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8446302074588929659==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Gervais de Montbrun To: users at ovirt.org Subject: [ovirt-users] Setting up oVirt for the first time Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:59:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4BCDDB0B-6C13-487B-9AE9-557BA1F42348@demontbrun.com> --===============8446302074588929659== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --Apple-Mail=3D_0375DE21-EDF5-4C87-B0F3-BC852CDA9E3B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii Hi All, I've done a lot of reading and lots of comparison of different =3D hypervisors and tools and have decided that oVirt would be the best =3D option. My initial use case is a not too new server that I will setup to = =3D run multiple development environments for the devs here, but I wanted =3D something that will scale out to production as the vm infrastructure, =3D hardware, etc. grows here. I'll soon have a second server to run my vm's on and want to setup a =3D self-hosted engine. I'm trying to find the most recent version of a =3D how-to on the same. I found a presentation showing off how much easier =3D it is to do this in oVirt 3.6 but can't find the correct docs. I seem to = =3D always end up with 3.5 or older versions. Can someone point me at a =3D how-to of how to best achieve this.=3D20 Also, while I have you all here... :-) Is it possible to setup the hypervisor hosts themselves as NFS servers =3D to create Storage (I realize that this will play havoc with the HA). We =3D do have an NFS server that we will be upgrading to add storage and =3D faster drives, but I was thinking that I may be able to use the internal = =3D storage of the hypervisors themselves as a short term stopgap and then =3D migrate vm's to the upgraded NFS server later. Will that even work, or =3D will it break somehow? Any advice for a new install would be welcome. Thank you=3D20 Cheers, Gervais --Apple-Mail=3D_0375DE21-EDF5-4C87-B0F3-BC852CDA9E3B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii Hi All,

I've done a lot of reading and lots of comparison of =3D different hypervisors and tools and have decided that oVirt would be the = =3D best option. My initial use case is a not too new server that I will =3D setup to run multiple development environments for the devs here, but I =3D wanted something that will scale out to production as the vm =3D infrastructure, hardware, etc. grows here.

I'll soon have a second server to run = =3D my vm's on and want to setup a self-hosted engine. I'm trying to find =3D the most recent version of a how-to on the same. I found a presentation =3D showing off how much easier it is to do this in oVirt 3.6 but can't find = =3D the correct docs. I seem to always end up with 3.5 or older versions. =3D Can someone point me at a how-to of how to best achieve =3D this. 

Also, while I have you all here... :-)
= Is =3D it possible to setup the hypervisor hosts themselves as NFS servers to =3D create Storage (I realize that this will play havoc with the HA). We do =3D have an NFS server that we will be upgrading to add storage and faster =3D drives, but I was thinking that I may be able to use the internal =3D storage of the hypervisors themselves as a short term stopgap and then =3D migrate vm's to the upgraded NFS server later. Will that even work, or =3D will it break somehow?

Any advice for= =3D a new install would be welcome.

Thank you 

Cheers,
Gervais

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