8:49 a.m.
Use case: small sites with a minimum number of vm's.
Is there such a thing as a single host install?
Is it valid for production use?
What kind of storage?
11:14 a.m.
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 7:49 AM, <ovirt(a)fateknollogee.com> wrote:
Use case: small sites with a minimum number of vm's.
Is there such a thing as a single host install?
In the past we had the all-in-one mode but we deprecated it.
Now the suggested mode is hosted-engine since you could expand it adding
other hosts in the future.
Is it valid for production use?
With a single host the upgrades will become more intrusive: without the
capability to migrate your VMs on other hosts at upgrade time, you will be
required to bring down everything.
What kind of storage?
NFS in loopback could be problematic, I'd suggest gluster in replica 1 or
iSCSI.
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6:33 p.m.
Hi,
Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com> writes:
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 7:49 AM, <ovirt(a)fateknollogee.com>
wrote:
Use case: small sites with a minimum number of vm's.
Is there such a thing as a single host install?
In the past we had the all-in-one mode but we deprecated it.
Now the suggested mode is hosted-engine since you could expand it adding other
hosts in the future.
I am running in this configuration and have had little problem. I
migrated from an old vmware-server platform, and, modulo a few hiccups
along the way and a few false starts as I was installing ovirt, it's
been pretty stable for me!
Is it valid for production use?
With a single host the upgrades will become more intrusive: without the
capability to migrate your VMs on other hosts at upgrade time, you will be
required to bring down everything.
This is true -- I have to bring everything down when I want to upgrade
the system, especially the host itself. So I don't upgrade as often as
I might if I had multiple hosts where I could migrate.
What kind of storage?
NFS in loopback could be problematic, I'd suggest gluster in replica 1 or
iSCSI.
I'm running loopback NFS and I've not encountered any issues. I've been
running this way since 2016-10-22. I did not understand Gluster enough
and wasn't sure how I could make a "replica 1" -- everything seemed to
imply you *NEEDED* 3 gluster hosts. So I went with what I knew -- NFS.
This might be problematic if I move forward to a multi-host platform as
I'll have to "migrate" my storage -- specifically for hosted-engine --
which IIRC requires a re-install (or some other drastic measure).
-derek
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9:47 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 8:33 AM
To: Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users <users(a)ovirt.org>; ovirt(a)fateknollogee.com
Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: oVirt: single host install
Hi,
Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com> writes:
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 7:49 AM, <ovirt(a)fateknollogee.com>
wrote:
Use case: small sites with a minimum number of vm's.
Is there such a thing as a single host install?
In the past we had the all-in-one mode but we deprecated it.
Now the suggested mode is hosted-engine since you could expand it
adding other hosts in the future.
Sounds like "local storage" is useless then?
I am running in this configuration and have had little problem. I migrated from an old
vmware-server platform, and, modulo a few hiccups along the way and a few false starts as
I was installing ovirt, it's been pretty stable for me!
Did you use NFS for all storage domains?
Is it valid for production use?
With a single host the upgrades will become more intrusive: without
the capability to migrate your VMs on other hosts at upgrade time, you
will be required to bring down everything.
This is true -- I have to bring everything down when I want to upgrade the system,
especially the host itself. So I don't upgrade as often as I might if I had multiple
hosts where I could migrate.
How can you do it without a second host and importing with a temporary storage domain?
What kind of storage?
NFS in loopback could be problematic, I'd suggest gluster in replica 1
or iSCSI.
I'm running loopback NFS and I've not encountered any issues. I've been
running this way since 2016-10-22. I did not understand Gluster enough and wasn't
sure how I could make a "replica 1" -- everything seemed to imply you *NEEDED* 3
gluster hosts. So I went with what I knew -- NFS.
This might be problematic if I move forward to a multi-host platform as I'll have to
"migrate" my storage -- specifically for hosted-engine -- which IIRC requires a
re-install (or some other drastic measure).
-derek
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8:15 p.m.
Hi,
Justin Zygmont <jzygmont(a)proofpoint.com> writes:
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 8:33 AM
To: Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users <users(a)ovirt.org>; ovirt(a)fateknollogee.com
Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: oVirt: single host install
Hi,
Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 7:49 AM, <ovirt(a)fateknollogee.com> wrote:
>
> Use case: small sites with a minimum number of vm's.
>
> Is there such a thing as a single host install?
>
> In the past we had the all-in-one mode but we deprecated it.
> Now the suggested mode is hosted-engine since you could expand it
> adding other hosts in the future.
>
Sounds like "local storage" is useless then?
IMHO, yes. When I installed (4.0) you could not use it for
hosted-engine storage. Don't know if that changed, but what's the point
of using different storage methods? I already had to set up a local NFS
(pr theoretically Gluster) for HE -- so might as well re-use that for my
main storage too!
I am running in this configuration and have had little problem. I
migrated from an old vmware-server platform, and, modulo a few hiccups along the way and a
few false starts as I was installing ovirt, it's been pretty stable for me!
Did you use NFS for all storage domains?
Yes.
Both HE and Main Data storage domains are backed by SSD.
My ISO domain is backed by spinning rust.
> Is it valid for production use?
>
> With a single host the upgrades will become more intrusive: without
> the capability to migrate your VMs on other hosts at upgrade time, you
> will be required to bring down everything.
>
This is true -- I have to bring everything down when I want to upgrade the system,
especially the host itself. So I don't upgrade as often as I might if I had multiple
hosts where I could migrate.
How can you do it without a second host and importing with a temporary storage domain?
I just shut everything down. So long as it's planned my users can
handle a 30-60 minute outage. And this is only when I update the host.
I can update the Engine on its own, and often will update my VMs
simultaneously to minimize downtime. But I'm okay with some downtime.
-derek
PS: I don't know what mailer you used, but I had a very hard time
differentiating your responses from mine. Hopefully I did not miss one
of your questions.
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9:26 p.m.
This is true -- I have to bring everything down when I want to
upgrade the system, especially the host itself. So I don't upgrade as often as I
might if I had multiple hosts where I could migrate.
How can you do it without a second host and importing with a temporary storage domain?
I just shut everything down. So long as it's planned my users can
>handle a 30-60 minute outage. And this is only when I update the >host.
I can update the Engine on its own, and often will update my VMs >simultaneously to
minimize downtime. But I'm okay with some >downtime.
I see, so you just did an in place update of engine I guess, what if you want to update
the node as well, and install a new HE? You'd lose the locally stored NFS domains.
Or what if the engine update stuffs up, there'd be no way to access the admin portal
right?
5:44 p.m.
Hi,
Justin Zygmont <jzygmont(a)proofpoint.com> writes:
> This is true -- I have to bring everything down when I want to
upgrade the system, especially the host itself. So I don't upgrade as often as I
might if I had multiple hosts where I could migrate.
>
> How can you do it without a second host and importing with a temporary storage
domain?
>I just shut everything down. So long as it's planned my users can >handle a
30-60 minute outage. And this is only when I update the >host.
>I can update the Engine on its own, and often will update my VMs >simultaneously to
minimize downtime. But I'm okay with some >downtime.
I see, so you just did an in place update of engine I guess, what if
you want to update the node as well, and install a new HE? You'd lose
the locally stored NFS domains. Or what if the engine update stuffs
up, there'd be no way to access the admin portal right?
Yes, log into engine and run:
yum update 'ovirt-*-setup'
Then engine-setup.
As for the host, I'm not using Node. It's just a regular CentOS system
with the ovirt host software installed. I update it the normal way
you'd update any other CentOS system: yum update
I don't understand what you mean by "install a new HE"? If this is a
single-host system, what do you mean by installing a new hosted engine?
If you're asking about starting with one host and adding a second host,
then that returns back to the previous statement that you'd have to
migrate HE to a new (Gluster-based) storage system. If you stayed with
NFS, then you "master host" could never go down or your HE would also go
down (because its [NFS-based] storage would go away).
You're right that if the Engine update breaks somehow then the admin
portal would go away -- but I'm never updating systems through the
portal. It's always via SSH (or worst case local console on the host).
If the engine update breaks so much that even ssh wont work, then I'm
definitely in trouble. That's what backups are for! :)
-derek
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9:02 a.m.
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:17 AM, Justin Zygmont <jzygmont(a)proofpoint.com>
wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 8:33 AM
To: Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users <users(a)ovirt.org>; ovirt(a)fateknollogee.com
Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: oVirt: single host install
Hi,
Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 7:49 AM, <ovirt(a)fateknollogee.com> wrote:
>
> Use case: small sites with a minimum number of vm's.
>
> Is there such a thing as a single host install?
>
> In the past we had the all-in-one mode but we deprecated it.
> Now the suggested mode is hosted-engine since you could expand it
> adding other hosts in the future.
>
Sounds like "local storage" is useless then?
I am running in this configuration and have had little problem. I
migrated from an old vmware-server platform, and, modulo a few hiccups
along the way and a few false starts as I was installing ovirt, it's been
pretty stable for me!
Did you use NFS for all storage domains?
> Is it valid for production use?
>
> With a single host the upgrades will become more intrusive: without
> the capability to migrate your VMs on other hosts at upgrade time, you
> will be required to bring down everything.
>
This is true -- I have to bring everything down when I want to upgrade the
system, especially the host itself. So I don't upgrade as often as I might
if I had multiple hosts where I could migrate.
How can you do it without a second host and importing with a temporary
storage domain?
> What kind of storage?
>
> NFS in loopback could be problematic, I'd suggest gluster in replica 1
> or iSCSI.
I'm running loopback NFS and I've not encountered any issues. I've been
running this way since 2016-10-22. I did not understand Gluster enough and
wasn't sure how I could make a "replica 1" -- everything seemed to imply
you *NEEDED* 3 gluster hosts. So I went with what I knew -- NFS.
We did add support for single node gluster volume in 4.2 - see
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/chap-Single_no...
This might be problematic if I move forward to a multi-host platform
as
I'll have to "migrate" my storage -- specifically for hosted-engine --
which IIRC requires a re-install (or some other drastic measure).
-derek
--
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11:29 a.m.
Hi,
Sahina Bose <sabose(a)redhat.com> writes:
I'm running loopback NFS and I've not encountered any
issues. I've been
running this way since 2016-10-22. I did not understand Gluster enough
and wasn't sure how I could make a "replica 1" -- everything seemed to
imply you *NEEDED* 3 gluster hosts. So I went with what I knew -- NFS.
We did add support for single node gluster volume in 4.2 - see
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/chap-Single_no...
Good to know, and thank you for the link. I started with 4.0, which
explains why I did not go this route. I've upgraded along the way, but
the upgrades wont let me easily change out the underlying storage
mechanisms without fully reinstalling the HE.
Still, next time I do a system refresh I'll definitely consider this.
Thanks,
-derek
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