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

[Nicolas Chenier]

I was under the impression that my oVirt VM would show up in oVirt and that
I could manage it through there...

What you're saying is that I should just run it seperatly and not manage it
with itself (oVirt)? keep it on my shared storage so that I can run it off
any of the 2 servers? But not manage it with oVirt (itself). I think I'm
starting to get it now...

I really appreciate your help!

Nic




On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/13/2012 12:48 AM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> what would be the benefit of doing that?
>
>
>> On 2012-09-12 5:25 PM, "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com
>> <mailto: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.
>>
>>
>>         On 2012-09-12 5:02 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 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.?
>>
>>
>>
>>                  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>>
>>                  <mailto: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.
>>
>>
>>
>>                           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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