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From: "Leandro Roggerone" <lroggerone@directvla.com.ar> To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 3:33:11 AM Subject: [ovirt-users] about testing scenario
Hello , Everyone; My name is Leandro. I have been reading about virtualization features and Its benefits so Im thinking about deploying a virtualized IP core enviroment. Main services I will need to run are , dns , dhcp, radius , and openvpn.
Note that normally, ovirt requires a working dhcp/dns service on the lan, or static configuration (ip addresses and /etc/hosts files).
Since I have never installed ovirt , I would like to deploy a testing/learning scenario using two i5 with 6gb ram memory laptops. My idea is to run the ovirt engine in one machine and at least 3 virtual centos hosts in the other while I wait for the real servers. I have no plan of deploying any network storage.
Some questions come to my mind: For the engine: Is there any recommended iso/distro with the ovirt package or should I use a machine with fedora/centos already installed ?
Most users use fedora or centos. You can also try the engine appliance [1]. Adding Fabian because the link there to jenkins builds is broken, not sure where else to download it from. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/oVirtAppliance
For the node. Is there any recommended iso/distro?
Either a "fat node" with fedora or centos, or ovirt-node. If you want to see what people are actually using, you can have a look at the results [2] of the recent survey we had... [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/users@ovirt.org/msg25032.html
Where should I keep the iso file of the virtualized OS. (ex centos / routerOS.)
In the ISO domain.
Is it possible to deploy virtualized environment without network storage? I would like to run everything locally.
It is, but you'll not have high-availability.
My services requieres very fast i/o processing from the hard disk, My consern is that since I have 1gb network interface, the process can experience some delay or timeouts waiting data from the network. That is why I would like to keep the storage locally.
It makes sense, but in practice, if that's really important, you should benchmark your actual application - reading, over the network, data cached in the server's RAM, might be faster than having to seek a local disk to find it. Best, -- Didi