Re: [ovirt-users] What prevents from using a very very low-end hardware for manager?

--=-ENdjJtal/bVpT+5wI2EM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Nicolas, I still consider myself new to oVirt but since I faced the same question during my initial research I try to answer. Major Block: AFAIK there are no i686 builds of oVirt, they make no sense anyway. So you will need a 64bit machine wich rules out any of the very old stuff. Minor blocks: You should keep in mind the 4GB min memory requirement for oVirt engine. Better go for 8GB in a bare metal system if you like to have more headroom for future upgrades. The processing power is of no major concern it seems. I have a single virtual CPU(a)2.5GHz allocated, witch is fine. Also, the minimum disk space requirements with 25GB are pretty low. In the end I decided for Hosted Engine. IMHO this is "the future" anyway and you have much better cost effectiveness in any area. Also I decided *not* to use older hardware because of power consumption. Old computers tend to use a lot of power (DDR2 RAM esp.). Since the engine runs 24/7 a new server will most likely save the initial costs in less then one year. If you want to use a bare metal system, I'd recommend a new low power system with a Celeron or Atom processor. They will even be quite cheap. Also, I have seen interesting proposals using Intel NUC's as basis for a two node engine cluser:=20 On Fr, 2014-06-20 at 11:43 +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: =20 =20 =20 --=20 Daniel Helgenberger=20 m box bewegtbild GmbH=20 P: +49/30/2408781-22 F: +49/30/2408781-10 ACKERSTR. 19=20 D-10115 BERLIN=20 www.m-box.de www.monkeymen.tv=20 Gesch=C3=A4ftsf=C3=BChrer: Martin Retschitzegger / Michaela G=C3=B6llner Handeslregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg / HRB 112767=20 --=-ENdjJtal/bVpT+5wI2EM Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExCzAJBgUrDgMCGgUAMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAQAAoIIN9zCCBFcw ggM/oAMCAQICCwQAAAAAAS9O4TFGMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAMFcxCzAJBgNVBAYTAkJFMRkwFwYD VQQKExBHbG9iYWxTaWduIG52LXNhMRAwDgYDVQQLEwdSb290IENBMRswGQYDVQQDExJHbG9iYWxT aWduIFJvb3QgQ0EwHhcNMTEwNDEzMTAwMDAwWhcNMTkwNDEzMTAwMDAwWjBUMQswCQYDVQQGEwJC 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