On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:18 AM, <ovirt@fateknollogee.com> wrote:
Sandro,
If & when one decides to "graduate" & use real hardware, what is the install process?

The install process depends on how you want to design your lab .
You can have a small deployment with just 3 hosts in hyperconverged setup or a large datacenter with 200 hypervisors and one or more dedicated SAN for the storage.
If you go with an hyperconverged setup, you can install oVirt Node on 3 hosts and then on one of them use cockpit to deploy gluster and hosted engine on top of it in hyperconverged mode.

You can find an installation guide here: http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/Installation_Guide/

 
Is the gluster part still automated or that has to be done manually?

If you go with hyperconverged mode it's now automated. You can find more info here: http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/gluster/gdeploy-cockpit-integration/
Sahina, please ensure above link is updated. I see it shows the feature still in WIP while it's been released.


 

Another question, what type of use cases & jobs is oVirt being deployed in & how are people getting tech support?

About use cases for oVirt you can find some examples here: http://www.ovirt.org/community/user-stories/users-and-providers/
If you want dedicated support, I would recommend to get a Red Hat Virtualization (which is oVirt with technical support and some additions) subscription getting Red Hat support.
Another place to get support if you stay with oVirt is the community: this mailing list, the IRC channel and social media, have a look here for other contacts: http://www.ovirt.org/community/




 


On 2017-05-29 04:33, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:21 AM, <ovirt@fateknollogee.com> wrote:

I assume people are using oVirt in production?

Sure, I was just wondering why you were running in nested
virtualization :-)
Being your use case a "playground" environment, I can suggest you to
have a look at Lago http://lago.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
and at Lago demo at https://github.com/lago-project/lago-demo
to help you preparing an isolated test environment for your learning.

On 2017-05-29 04:13, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:12 AM, <ovirt@fateknollogee.com> wrote:


http://community.redhat.com/blog/2013/08/testing-ovirt-3-3-with-nested-kvm/
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I have one CentOS7 host (physical) & 3x oVirt nodes 4.1.2 (these are
vm's).

Hi, can you please share the use case for this setup?

I have installed vdsm-hook-nestedvm on the host.

Should I install vdsm-hook-macspoof on the 3x node vm's?
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