From: Jason Keltz <jas(a)cse.yorku.ca&gt; To: users(a)ovirt.org Subject: [Users] RAID1 mirror on ovirt-node + engine nfs server Message-ID: <51D5A06E.10504(a)cse.yorku.ca&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi. I've been reading about ovirt, and ready to try my own experiments with it. I have two small questions.. When an ovirt-node is installed from the standard ISO, there's no mention in the documentation about setting up a RAID1 mirror for the root disk on the node. I'm sure that once I get around to working out kickstarting the node, I could easily install the raid1 mirror, but I'm just wondering why I don't see that in the default ISO. Maybe I'm just missing something. Is redundancy of the disk on the node not important? Sure, if the node goes down, I guess the VMs could be run on other nodes, but if we can prevent the node from going down in the first place, then why not? Kickstarting the Node is an interesting proposition, but not one that the

a pretty powerful server that I intend to use as the NFS server, and a few servers to use as nodes. On the other hand, I don't have a powerful machine (at the moment) to use for the ovirt-engine. Would it be poor practice to run the ovirt-engine ON the NFS server? During engine setup, I see that you can setup an NFS share for ISOs from the ovirt-engine, but I don't think there's mention of just generalized storage there. I suspect it's "poor practice", but I thought I'd ask anyway. My setup will be relatively small (say, 4 nodes), and this would let me reduce 1 general server from the infrastructure (dedicated ovirt-engine).