You can set up a localhost NFS server to serve out the local storage.
Just ensure you have enough RAM so you don't hit the potential NFS
dead-locking problem. I've been running in this configuration for several
years. I've got 256GB RAM on the host. Works great for me.
-derek
On Tue, January 21, 2020 3:05 am, Joseph Goldman wrote:
I dont think a bare-metal engine can be a compute node as well.
On 2020-01-21 6:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, webmattr(a)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:
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https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Installing_oVirt.html
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> HTH
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> /tony
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