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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