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Hi All.

As I was perusing my e-mails from this list earlier today one that caught my attention was one that had to do with ovirt-node and hosted engine. It appeared as though it is possible to install hosted engine on a ovirt-node "host", and indeed, when I installed ovirt-node into a VirtualBox VM to poke around, there is a "hosted engine" option in the menu where you can enter a URL for an ISO/pxe source for OS installtion.

Hey,

I just want to clarify the following questions:

1.) Is it possible to install ovirt-node, and then install a hosted engine?

Yes.

2.) If the answer to 1.) is "Yes", does it require some sort of NFS-enabled storage, or can you confgiure local storage on ovirt-node and install the engine to there?

Currently you can install hosted-engine on eitehr NFS or iSCSI storage

3.) Is it possible to create NFS-enabled storage on ovirt-node?

No. Maybe you technically can, but I can just strongly discourage to do that.

4.) Can you install the hosted engine onto external NFS storage, then move/migrate it to local storage on ovirt-node?

I strongly believe not.

I am thinking of a "lab" situation where there is only one server, but gobs of RAM and storage. Running ovirt-node as the "host" would require fewer space resources (not that I would necessarily be hurting for space, but any extra I could squeeze out would not be unwelcome).

Maybe this will work in future, when we can also configure some storage server on Node. But for now that is not supported. - fabian