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Ok, after all of the questions I've pestered you guys with, I'm actually getting started. Thank you all for your help.

A few of questions right off the bat.

For this install, I'm installing the latest (4.4.2) onto CentOS 8.

1) What's the difference between the `ovirt-hosted-engine-setup` command and the `engine-setup` command? I ran both of them, and it seems like they do the exact same thing.

2) For either of the commands above, I'm able to get as far as the step where it asks about the storage: Please specify the storage you would like to use (glusterfs, iscsi, fc, nfs)[nfs]

It's clear to me that using this install method, the storage should be setup first / independently of the installer.

So ok, I'll try the Cockpit install, since the documentation says that's the preferred method anyway. (I'm just a sucker for the command line, doing it myself, and understanding everything that I'm doing. I like to avoid GUIs if I can help it. LOL).

So I logged into the Cockpit Dashboard at {ip-address}:9090, clicked on 'Virtualization' then clicked on Hosted Engine. Here, I clicked on Hyperconvered, and since I'm just installing to a single host right now, I clicked on Run Gluster Wizard for Single Node.

So here's my 3rd question.

3) I can't get past the first step of this wizard. It is asking for the FQDN of the host (Host1).

- The documentation indicates that this is NOT the base OS, but I've tried that 

- I've also tried the IP address that I intend to use for the manager (i.e. what I envision is akin to the vCenter IP address for a vSphere environment -- correct?)

In both cases, the wizard won't let me proceed, and keeps saying "Host is not added to known_hosts"

What am I missing, here? I'm familiar with the known_hosts file... but that's the VM / manager that I'm trying to create, I thought? Why does the wizard continue to give me that error message?