[Users] [Best practice] NFS export domain served by oVirt manager?

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Fri Feb 15 21:20:09 UTC 2013


On 15/02/2013 11:01, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a simple question about what is the best practice about the
> location of a NFS export domain.
>
> At present, I'm using a server as the oVirt manager, and this server is
> also a NFS server for the ISO storage domain.
>
> I'm using another server to serve an NFS export domain, but I'm thinking
> of changing that.
>
> Is there any advice against the decision to host the export domain NFS
> on the same server as the manager?
> For the time being, I will mainly use this export storage domain to
> rarely import some p2v imports, but I don't need performance.
>
> Your opinion?
>

we setup the iso domain on engine just for simplicity of initial install.
it may cause issues if you'll launch too many VMs all trying to install 
from the ISO domain if your engine isn't beefy enough.



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