[Users] Can oVirt be installed in a virtual machine?

[Nicolas Chenier]

Wonderful thank you. Once I install oVirt in KVM (without oVirt) will I be
able to import the VM in oVirt after I'm up?
 On 2012-09-12 5:25 PM, "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/13/2012 12:20 AM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
>
>> Yes!
>>
>
> how critical is the availability?
> you could place it in a VM on shared storage.
> then launch it on one host.
> but you should never launch it on the other host before you made sure it
> doesn't run on the first node, or it will be corrupted.
> you also want to set the SPM priority on the node it is running to lower
> than the other node so SPM won't be scheduled on engine node.
>
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>> On 2012-09-12 5:02 PM, "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com
>> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 09/12/2012 11:58 PM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
>>
>>         Thank you Itamar, much appreciated...
>>
>>         So how would you go about getting this setup if you only have 2
>> host
>>         servers?
>>
>>
>>     are they supposed to be in same cluster with shared storage, live
>>     migration, etc.?
>>
>>
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>>         On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>              On 09/12/2012 08:26 PM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
>>
>>                  Hi all,
>>
>>                  I am starting a small hosting business and want to use
>>         oVirt w/
>>                  KVM as
>>                  my virtualization platform.
>>
>>                  I currently have 2 host servers and an iSCSI NAS.
>>
>>                  Do I need a dedicated machine to run oVirt? Can I run
>>         it from a VM?
>>
>>
>>              either will work, but not easy right now to host the engine
>>         on its
>>              own hypervisor.
>>
>>
>>
>>                  Can I use the all-in-one solution in a Production
>>         environment,
>>                  with a
>>                  2nd host? ... would I need to install oVirt on both
>>         hosts, in
>>                  the event
>>                  that one of my servers went down?
>>
>>
>>              the all-in-one is mostly intended for POC level, using
>>         local storage
>>              of the host.
>>              if you plan to use both hosts with local storage, you
>>         should be able
>>              to use it, depending on strength of your hosts.
>>
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>>
>>                  I am trying to see how I can survive if my oVirt server
>>         fails.
>>                  It would
>>                  be great if it ran from a VM but I can also see issues
>> with
>>                  doing that...
>>
>>                  Another option would be to run oVirt on my workstation
>>         and have it
>>                  connect to my 2 host servers in colocation over the
>>         internet?
>>
>>
>>              should work over WAN, but if you are hosting, wouldn't
>>         users need to
>>              access the engine / your workstation?
>>
>>
>>                  Please let me know how you've accomplished an oVirt
>>         setup with 2
>>                  servers.
>>
>>                  Thank you!
>>
>>                  Nic
>>
>>
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