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.