[Users] help me validate my design

[Doron Fediuck]

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> From: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne at skopos.us>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 6:01:46 PM
> Subject: [Users] help me validate my design

> I like to give a brief description of what I'm taking to production
> here in a couple weeks, and I like some opinions if this is a valid
> design, as well as id love to hear some anecdotal evidence of
> similar deployments as well.

> My nodes will be 8 dell M620s with 96GB ram and dual 10core intel
> processors. As they are in M1000 chassis, I will be using fabric A
> for ovirtmgmt network and the fabA interfaces will be a bond mode1.
> Fabric A is a pair of cisco 3130s, and the stacking cables were not
> used by previous admin and are long lost (thus, the mode1 for
> ovirtmgmt). The fabric B will be dual port broadcom mezzanine cards
> into powerconnect 6348s that will be stacked. My fabB will be used
> for iscsi traffic that will be on a equalogic iscsi SAN, and node
> interfaces will be a mode4.

> Regular network traffic for both nodes and Vm's will go thru
> ovirtmgmt, and iscsi traffic will be isolated on the dedicated 6348
> switches. Some Vms will have interfaces for iscsi, as they will have
> their own dedicated luns on the EQ SAN for their own data.

> Am in on a valid track here?

> Thanks for your opinions,
> jonathan

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Hi Jomathan, 
I think it'll be easier to relate to specific performance areas, which usually come up later in the process. 

Try organizing your setup based on the following areas; 

1. Network design 
- What connect where , which networks will you have? 
- Capacity planning 
- Special considerations (VLANs, etc). 

2. Storage design 
- What connect where, and how: iscsi, nfs, FC, etc. 
- Capacity planning 

3. Management server 
- Fedora? 
- CPU 
- RAM 
- Networking 
- Will it include other Apps? 

4. Hosts 
- Fedora or ovirt-nodes? 
- CPU 
- RAM 
- Networking 
- Capacity plan 
- Fencing? 

Based on the above it'll be easier to see if we can expect issues. 
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