On 07/04/2013 07:18 PM, Jason Keltz wrote:
I also have a question about the storage backend. In particular, I
have
a pretty powerful server that I intend to use as the NFS server, and a
few servers to use as nodes. On the other hand, I don't have a powerful
machine (at the moment) to use for the ovirt-engine. Would it be poor
practice to run the ovirt-engine ON the NFS server? During engine
setup, I see that you can setup an NFS share for ISOs from the
ovirt-engine, but I don't think there's mention of just generalized
storage there. I suspect it's "poor practice", but I thought I'd ask
anyway. My setup will be relatively small (say, 4 nodes), and this
would let me reduce 1 general server from the infrastructure (dedicated
ovirt-engine).
"powerful" is relative. engine doesn't need a very strong server. you
can also run it in a VM which is easier to move around later / increase
resources for.