Hello, I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best-thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?* *Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet. (and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario).
On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, webmattr@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best- thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*
*Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet.
(and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario).
Well, if you can live with a regular engine(not self-hosted), this works: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Installing_oVirt.html HTH /tony
That was my original configuration, but I found that it wouldn't let me add the local machine as a host, and so I thought perhaps I needed to use the self-hosted deployment methodology instead. Would a regular engine be better for my deployment type? If so, I can investigate why that isn't working, and start over. Sent from my iPad
On Jan 20, 2020, at 11:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers <tba@kb.dk> wrote:
On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, webmattr@hotmail.com wrote: Hello,
I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best- thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*
*Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet.
(and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario).
Well, if you can live with a regular engine(not self-hosted), this works:
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Installing_oVirt.html
HTH
/tony
I dont think a bare-metal engine can be a compute node as well. On 2020-01-21 6:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers wrote:
On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, webmattr@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best- thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*
*Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet.
(and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario).
Well, if you can live with a regular engine(not self-hosted), this works:
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Installing_oVirt.html
HTH
/tony
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You can set up a localhost NFS server to serve out the local storage. Just ensure you have enough RAM so you don't hit the potential NFS dead-locking problem. I've been running in this configuration for several years. I've got 256GB RAM on the host. Works great for me. -derek On Tue, January 21, 2020 3:05 am, Joseph Goldman wrote:
I dont think a bare-metal engine can be a compute node as well.
On 2020-01-21 6:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers wrote:
On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, webmattr@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best- thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*
*Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet.
(and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario).
Well, if you can live with a regular engine(not self-hosted), this works:
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Installing_oVirt.html
HTH
/tony
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I run a single server setup for my home needs / lab work - and did exactly as you described, run NFS on the server and mount it locally. Little bit of overhead at the top end of performance, but we talking a home lab so over-all it runs fine. On 2020-01-21 6:35 PM, webmattr@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best-thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*
*Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet.
(and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario). _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/OB5AWOMHJZVR5I...
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 8:37 AM <webmattr@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best-thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*
*Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet.
(and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario).
You can run an hyperconverged infrastructure where you actually have only one node connecting via gluster to itself. Now it is fully supported and no need to use the workaround of having NFS running locally Main upstream doc here: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/self-hosted/chap-Deploying_Self-Hosted_E... Main downstream doc with more details here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_hyperconverged_infrast... deployment workflow here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_hyperconverged_infrast... and after initial host configuration steps you will arrive at the step of cockpit configuration where you choose the "Hyperconverged" option (at the right) and then button "Run Gluster Wizard For Single Node": https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_hyperconverged_infrast... HIH, Gianluca
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