I got responses in IRC to my questions.<br><br>A very nice person - Mburns basically answered all my questions - I had asked about SWRAID for the nodes too<br><br>As always i&#39;m amazed how easy it is to get answers in the opensource world <br>

<br>Many thanks to everybody involved !<br><br>Regards<br><br><br>12:36] &lt;mburns&gt; morgan: support life:  it&#39;s an open project so support is just community support<br>[12:36] &lt;mburns&gt; i haven&#39;t heard anything around how we&#39;re going to handle OS upgrades at this point<br>

[12:37] &lt;mburns&gt; but i would think that each ovirt release will be on the current versions of the different distros<br>[12:37] &lt;mburns&gt; morgan: regarding nodes, if you&#39;re using ovirt-node, then it&#39;s fedora only currently<br>

[12:38] &lt;mburns&gt; there is work being done to be able to create clients/slaves on different distros, but not as part of the node project<br>[12:38] &lt;mburns&gt; though we&#39;d love for people who know those distros to help out creating variants of the node for each<br>

[12:39] &lt;-- ydary has left this server (Quit: Leaving.).<br>[12:39] &lt;mburns&gt; morgan: upgrading the node:  the way the node is designed, upgrades are fairly easy and non-destructive<br>[12:40] &lt;mburns&gt; the base image is dropped in and the configuration and shared data aren&#39;t touched<br>

[12:40] &lt;mburns&gt; morgan: no support for swraid in the node at this time<br>[12:41] &lt;mburns&gt; morgan: i don&#39;t think it&#39;s really needed either<br>[12:42] &lt;mburns&gt; there is minimal configuration to be made on the node, so re-installation in the case of a lost disk is pretty simple<br>

[12:42] &lt;mburns&gt; the bigger deal is the storage for your datacenters<br>[12:42] &lt;mburns&gt; and if you&#39;re using nfs/iscsi/fc, you definitely want raid of some sort there<br><br><br>