On Dec 1, 2015, at 6:47 PM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos@redhat.com> = wrote: =20 =20 =20 On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gervais de Montbrun = <gervais@demontbrun.com <mailto:gervais@demontbrun.com>> wrote: Hi All, =20 I've done a lot of reading and lots of comparison of different = hypervisors and tools and have decided that oVirt would be the best =
=20 I'll soon have a second server to run my vm's on and want to setup a = self-hosted engine. I'm trying to find the most recent version of a = how-to on the same. I found a presentation showing off how much easier = it is to do this in oVirt 3.6 but can't find the correct docs. I seem to = always end up with 3.5 or older versions. Can someone point me at a = how-to of how to best achieve this. =20 http://www.ovirt.org/Features/HEApplianceFlow = <http://www.ovirt.org/Features/HEApplianceFlow> =20 =20 Also, while I have you all here... :-) Is it possible to setup the hypervisor hosts themselves as NFS servers = to create Storage (I realize that this will play havoc with the HA). We = do have an NFS server that we will be upgrading to add storage and = faster drives, but I was thinking that I may be able to use the internal = storage of the hypervisors themselves as a short term stopgap and then = migrate vm's to the upgraded NFS server later. Will that even work, or = will it break somehow? =20 What you are asking for is generally called hyper-convergence. We =
--Apple-Mail=_1E8C93F2-E6A2-4E71-AF6F-60C2D12F4FA0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Simone, Thanks so much for the quick reply with the link. Much obliged. How far off is hyper-convergence? If it is close, I could possibly wait. Cheers, Gervais option. My initial use case is a not too new server that I will setup to = run multiple development environments for the devs here, but I wanted = something that will scale out to production as the vm infrastructure, = hardware, etc. grows here. tried to have it for 3.6 with glusterfs on each node but it wasn't = valuated stable enough to be released. We are still working on that for = the next release.
=20 Any advice for a new install would be welcome. =20 Thank you=20 =20 Cheers, Gervais =20 =20 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users = <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users> =20 =20
--Apple-Mail=_1E8C93F2-E6A2-4E71-AF6F-60C2D12F4FA0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" = class=3D"">Simone,<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D"">Thanks so much for the quick reply with the link. Much = obliged.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">How = far off is hyper-convergence? If it is close, I could possibly = wait.<br class=3D""><div class=3D""> <div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;" class=3D""><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; = text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: = 0px;"><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline">Cheers,<br = class=3D"">Gervais</span></div> </div> <br class=3D""><div><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div = class=3D"">On Dec 1, 2015, at 6:47 PM, Simone Tiraboschi <<a = href=3D"mailto:stirabos@redhat.com" class=3D"">stirabos@redhat.com</a>>= wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=3D""><div = dir=3D"ltr" class=3D""><br class=3D""><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br = class=3D""><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:59 PM, = Gervais de Montbrun <span dir=3D"ltr" class=3D""><<a = href=3D"mailto:gervais@demontbrun.com" target=3D"_blank" = class=3D"">gervais@demontbrun.com</a>></span> wrote:<br = class=3D""><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px = 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left= -style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word" = class=3D"">Hi All,<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D"">I've done a lot of reading and lots of comparison of = different hypervisors and tools and have decided that oVirt would be the = best option. My initial use case is a not too new server that I will = setup to run multiple development environments for the devs here, but I = wanted something that will scale out to production as the vm = infrastructure, hardware, etc. grows here.</div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">I'll soon have a second server to run = my vm's on and want to setup a self-hosted engine. I'm trying to find = the most recent version of a how-to on the same. I found a presentation = showing off how much easier it is to do this in oVirt 3.6 but can't find = the correct docs. I seem to always end up with 3.5 or older versions. = Can someone point me at a how-to of how to best achieve this. = </div></div></blockquote><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D""><a href=3D"http://www.ovirt.org/Features/HEApplianceFlow" = class=3D"">http://www.ovirt.org/Features/HEApplianceFlow</a><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D""> </div><div = class=3D""> </div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" = style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px = 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left= -style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word" = class=3D""><div class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">Also, while I have you = all here... :-)</div><div class=3D"">Is it possible to setup the = hypervisor hosts themselves as NFS servers to create Storage (I realize = that this will play havoc with the HA). We do have an NFS server that we = will be upgrading to add storage and faster drives, but I was thinking = that I may be able to use the internal storage of the hypervisors = themselves as a short term stopgap and then migrate vm's to the upgraded = NFS server later. Will that even work, or will it break = somehow?</div></div></blockquote><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div= class=3D"">What you are asking for is generally called = hyper-convergence. We tried to have it for 3.6 with glusterfs on each = node but it wasn't valuated stable enough to be released. We are = still working on that for the next release.</div><div class=3D""> <br= class=3D""></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px = 0px 0px = 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left= -style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word" = class=3D""><div class=3D""><div class=3D"">Any advice for a new install = would be welcome.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D"">Thank you </div><div class=3D""> <div style=3D"font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" = class=3D""><span style=3D"border-collapse: separate; font-variant: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: = -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;" class=3D""><br = class=3D"">Cheers,<br class=3D"">Gervais</span></div> </div> <br class=3D""></div></div><br = class=3D"">_______________________________________________<br class=3D""> Users mailing list<br class=3D""> <a href=3D"mailto:Users@ovirt.org" class=3D"">Users@ovirt.org</a><br = class=3D""> <a href=3D"http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" = rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank" = class=3D"">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br = class=3D""> <br class=3D""></blockquote></div><br class=3D""></div></div> </div></blockquote></div><br class=3D""></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_1E8C93F2-E6A2-4E71-AF6F-60C2D12F4FA0--