In a small environment I think the easiest way would be to use the local machine as a host and then run the engine as a vm on a laptop or an older PC. As long as you have memory enough it runs on pretty much anything. Be careful when using local storage, it's got some special requirements: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Storage.html /tony On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 08:05 +0000, Matt R wrote:
That was my original configuration, but I found that it wouldn't let me add the local machine as a host, and so I thought perhaps I needed to use the self-hosted deployment methodology instead.
Would a regular engine be better for my deployment type? If so, I can investigate why that isn't working, and start over.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 20, 2020, at 11:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers <tba@kb.dk> wrote:
On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, webmattr@hotmail.com wrote: Hello,
I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best- thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*
*Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet.
(and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario).
Well, if you can live with a regular engine(not self-hosted), this works:
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Installing_oVirt.html
HTH
/tony